Phlip wrote:
> So my colleague has super-modern wide-area WiFi (somewhere in Europe), 
> and he puts Ubuntu on his notebook, to match mine.
>
> Then Ubuntu can't do WiFi with WEP. He has to go to an internet cafe 
> to integrate. Ay-yi! Ubuntu sucks!!!

If the laptop has a wifi card with linux drivers then Ubuntu will 
connect using wep.

Mark