HP Mini 1000, Ubuntu and WIFI

Getting Ubuntu on a HP mini 100 is well documented and well supported, to make wireless and ethernet work see here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks#Karmic

Thing is, the driver packges needed by the Broadcom Wireless card are on the Install Media, they are just not included in the default install set. So a couple of commands during the install process and you can have wireless working on first boot.

Install Ubuntu. After install, before you hit restart press: ctrl+alt+F1

At the terminal prompt:

$ sudo su -
# chroot /target
# aptitude install bcmwl-kernel-sources

Now press ctrl+alt+F7 and click Reboot. You should now have wireless on first boot.