Ack!

Show-stopper.

The wireless card is a Realtek RTL-8185 based adapter. The right
modules for this are not in the standard Hardy kernel.

I read a possible solution at
<http://willdaniels.co.uk/articles/howto-guides/10-howto/15-rtl8180-hardy>
which involved adding a PPA with a newer build of the kernel that had
the right module in place.

And, having gone through that, I can confirm that if I boot into the
new kernel, the rtl8180 module is in place. The only problem is I can
only confirm that when running said kernel in recovery mode. If I try
to boot it into full multi-user glory, it freezes at about the time
that GDM should be starting up.

Thankfully I can boot up using the older kernel just fine, so it's not
COMPLETELY bricked; just...well...useless by virtue of no network
connection...

Which also makes the OSD a lot less useful, since it can only get to
videos through USB, rather than on the network which is what makes it
damned spiffy

*sigh* ah well...

Simón

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