Marking as Rejected, as this is not a problem with the package, but
with my particular installation.
** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected
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ipw3945d not started at boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111042
You received this bug
I've looked into this further, and found the cause of the problem.
The ipw3945 module is not loaded by the initrd as I originally
suspected, but by udevtrigger from /etc/rcS.d/S10udev. At this point
/ is mounted read-only. The daemon was failing to start, due to not
being able to write