Well as I said, I don't know anything about the n810's GPS. (actually besides the n800's pros such as dual SD cards, one of the reasons why I didn't like the n810 was the integrated GPS. From what I've learned about GPS systems, they never tend to work when they're not out in the open. And since I didn't want to put my tablet on the dashboard just to use the GPS, it was obvious what the choice was :P).

Torrenting shouldn't be a problem (well besides space on your memory card).

So yeah, that explains the issues you have. You have Broadcom (yucky) and ATI. Did you know if you used ndswrapper to install the drivers? (basically did you do anything or did Ubuntu do it all?). If Ubuntu did everything for you then it likely tried to use an open source driver (which are somethings great, though thanks to companies not releasing specs they tend to be buggy). So you may want to try using ndiswrapper.

First you might want to install ndiswrapper for the following to work (the authors haven't programmed in a check to make sure you have ndiswrapper and if not to install it). So to take the GUI path. System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.

Paste "ndiswrapper" into the search box and install the three (ndisgtk, ndiswrapperutils, ndiswrapper-common).

Here's a link to the auto one I talked about. http://easylinuxwifi.org/

Sadly it's not packaged into a nice .deb and it uses python. It's also relatively new (released this month or last so it's still buggy apparantly).

I'm going to bed soon so I won't be able to help you so you might want to wait till someone else helps or try Ubuntuforums.org. The instructions are copied and pasted from their INSTRUCTIONS document (I haven't tried this myself since I haven't had time)
Translated:

"Place the folder Auto-NDIS-0.1 in your home directory"

Copy the folder to /home/WHATEVERNAMEYOUCHOOSE

"Open up a terminal and type the following command 'sudo python ~/Auto-NDIS-0.1/auto-ndis.py'

or open up a terminal and type 'su' and then the type 'python ~/Auto-NDIS-0.1/auto-ndis.py'"

Click applications > terminal then copy and paste. (copy and paste are weird in the terminal unless you change the defaults. It's shift+ctrl+c and shift+ctrl+v). Or use the mouse or the edit toolbar :P



The command basically tells to run that script with executable privileges as root (or in Windows terminology, an adminstrator). You could also just right click on those two files in the file browser > properties > go to permissions > click allow executing as a program. You'd still have to run it as root however. And with a default installation, root access is usually hidden away from the user unless you setup a shortcut for it. People just prefer using the terminal since it's usually faster. Anyway press Alt+F2 (you'll get a small window that pops up [a quicklauncher]. Type in "gksudo nautilus". This will make another window pop up that starts you in /root/. Then to go /home/YOURUSERNAME. Go to the folder and finally click those two files (after you let them be executable).

Honestly it's easier to use the terminal if you haven't noticed. Especially if your new (like I was). Just copy and paste commands!

As for ATI, I haven't had a problem myself with the driver. But it's an X800GTOII (kinda old.. doesn't have SM3.0 shaders). It's only the more recent ATI cards that have problems.

Anyway, hope it works out for you. I remember trying out Ubuntu for the first time. It was an odd experience, trying to navigate it since I was use to Windows. (kinda like how I am now with Macs since their GUI has changed quite a bit since the days of running Oregon Trail off of elementary school computers).