I have a compaq 4225CA with a broadcom chip and under feisty it works fine for me. The one thing you need is broadcom-fwcutter which will download a file, rip the firmeware and put it where you need it and then Network manager can manage the card. It worked fine for me with a Dell D600 as well. I do not think that the live CD will do this for you out of the box but you could try to do apt-get install broadcon-fwcutter and see what happens.

Hope this helps.

I downloaded the beta version of Feisty faun yesterday and ran it as an ISO on my laptop, a HP compaq nx6125. All seemed fine, but the wifi driver is a broadcom one, and was not included. Looking on the ubuntu forums, its one of those thats a problem to solve:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

I have resigned myself to buying a pcmcia wifi card with a linux driver for it, and forgetting the built in one, unless I can work a way around this.

Everything else with feity faun seemed to run fine . mine has a AMD Turion CPU.

The other I can say, is that please try your laptop again with Feisty when its released. I’ve installed Feisty demo on a Dell Precision M65 with Intel wifi and widescreen and Intel graphics, and it all worked out of the box, wifi, screen and Intel drivers (I think the intel video driver is actually GPL anyway).

Even so, i was surprised it was that easy.

The kernel and drivers are improving all the time, so do try the latest distros.