Comment 37 for bug 594866

Lol, yes I saw those dire warnings too. They seem on the other hand to be overstating the situation a bit. It functions well for some hardware. I write this here on lucid with a 2.6.33 kernel and compat-wireless-2.6.36-rc5-2-s. It works very well so far. Others have had mixed experiences - like working well but freezing on shutdown (bug #662288). For others it has not worked at all, like for me with maverick 64 bit (bug #659143).
What the developers need is good bug reports from everyone. One bug report per person (or computer). With ubuntu-bug linux, so that relevant information is documented. If possible, after the bug happens. Those bugs are often very hardware specific. They will have to fix those one by one.

See also:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Policies/DuplicateBugs