You gotta love Ubuntu Karmic!!!! I installed the b43-fwcutter from the repository and spent a couple of minutes figuring out that d**n broadcom wireless driver only needed to be activated under
SYSTEM-> Hardware Drivers (Proprietary).
Sound was not working when I just installed flash for firefox, I’m not sure if I had to remove and re-add pulseaudio but its working great now. Webcam and Mic are working great and Skype Video is doing pretty good on Linux too now!! pretty awesome.. 
Some nice packages to have sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager pidgin , pdfedit, Skype, Launchy
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