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I just got a new HP laptop and I was thinking about installing Ubuntu 6.06 on it, but I have a few quick questions since I know there are a lot of Ubuntu users on the forums.

Does Ubuntu 6.06 come with support for a Broadcom WLAN card? And if not, how easy is it to implement? Also, what's the best way to secure a WLAN?

It's possible:

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Finally, ... t_Extreme_

The version of Ubuntu that I was using was ok, however the thing that I really hated about it was that there was no Root acct, and I had to use SUDO every time that I wanted to change something globally.

You might want to check out SuSE, or one of the RHEL clones.

The support is there but it is a bit complicated to set up a broadcom card (I actually use a Linksys WPC54GS on an IBM ThinkPad T21 running Ubuntu Linux 6.06, which is a broadcom card), there are two ways to do it

1) Using something called ndiswrapper, you can use the windows drivers with it (but you have to blacklist the native drivers)

2) using something called fwcutter to get the firmware out of the windows drivers to use the card with the native linux drivers

This page of the Ubuntu wiki should help you (anything where you have to enter 'sudo' at the beginning may need your password, well the first mention of a command beginning 'sudo' at least), it is at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... 3xx/Dapper

Security should be done through WEP or WPA, just set up a key on your access point and enter that key into the wireless network settings and it should work just fine

hope that helps

Here are directions on using ndiswrapper with your Broadcom card--this is usually the easiest and most reliable way to do it.

http://www.seungpyo.com/stacksandpiles/ ... apper-606/

correct, ndiswrapper is a fairly easy way of getting the card to work, that is how I have done it after numerous failed attempts with the native drivers and the fact I upgraded from 5.10 anyway