For those of you who want to install a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet on Ubuntu, upgrade to Maverick.  If you have a different Ubuntu version, and this workaround works, please post.  l had web searched for info, found some advice, but nothing yielded results. Then checked the bug listings for Ubuntu.  Ubuntu guru Stefan Bader determined that the current simple workaround is to install input backport modules using the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Select 'Backported input drivers for generic kernel image' --> name of the file is “linux-backports-modules-input-maverick-generic“.
Install, then reboot.

Wacom’s MyPaint (also installed through the Ubuntu Software Centre) listed devices as ‘disabled, screen, window’,which is a bit confusing but I made no changes. The tablet worked perfectly.

Gimp 2.6 Edit/Preferences/InputDevices/ConfigureExtendedInputDevices listed The Wacom Bamboo Finger Pad, Finger Touch, Pen eraser, Pen stylusd but they were marked as disabled. Again I made no changes, and the tablet worked perfectly.

Last test – opened Inkscape 0.48, selected ‘Draw Free Hand Lines’ – tablet worked fine. 

- Susan