Daniel, I've fought my battles with Broadcom hardware -- I heartily
recommend that BEFORE you remove XP, you copy the contents of
"C:\Program Files\Broadcom\Broadcom 802.11\Driver" to a usb key or
CD. That will preserve the *.inf files (possibly tweaked by OEM for
your specific hardware) that you will need to set up ndiswrapper.
HOWTO use ndsiwrapper is in just anout everyone's FAQ by now, and
easy to look up. PCLinuxOS includes it by default in install (I've
used it), I don't know about Ubuntu. If you have to use ndiswrapper,
Fedora isn't a good idea, their frequent kernel updates will break
ndiswrapper every time, requiring reinstall every other month or so.
Winmodems are another thing that crops up frequently as a problem.
You might need guidance from a user community forum more specific to
whichever distribution you end up using. The fast answer is usually
"get different hardware", not so doable with laptops ;)
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