why would wireless be different between UStudio and U?

[Susan Cragin]

>Brody McDonald wrote:
>> To all:
>>  
>> I have been using Ubuntu Studio since 8.04, and had to jump through some 
>> hoops to get my laptop wireless (Broadcom) working. I upgraded to 8.10 
>> and it still worked, but my audio went out. Finally, I decided to do a 
>> clean install. When I did that, my audio came back but my wireless went out!
>My experience with 8.04 Studio kernels is the same - the wireless modules appear not to be loaded by default. I suspect this is to do with real-time stability.
>In my case (Dell Inspiron 9400) if I recall correctly the module is not even in the kernel. Luckily I use wired connection almost all of the time so it doesn't really hurt me. :)
>
>-- 
>Hakan - http://www.hititgunesi.org

Here's the link to the bug. The wireless modules are in the backports, and aren't loading properly.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-backports-modules-2.6.27/+bug/294766