Why is the ipwireless driver disabled in intrepid?

[ubuntu at capitanio.org]

fgrep IPWI /boot/config-2.6.27-4-generic gives
# CONFIG_IPWIRELESS is not set

I created a bug report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/274748

but there is no response so far.

Thanks
Martin Capitanio