Ubuntu progress - Netgear and DVICO issues

So my machine finally arrived and now i'm sitting in front of a new machine, running Ubuntu 8.0.4 64. everything normal went well and I enjoyed playing tetris whilst installing :)

What sucks, well my fusion HDTV tuner card is a new one and not supported and i there's a lot of almost answers out there

root@zserver:~# lsusb
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 0fe9:db98 DVICO
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0fe9:db98 DVICO

and the Netgear wg311v3 which, from everything i have seen it's a pain in the butt with Linux

hmmf!