I bet there are drivers around. Sometimes you have to search to find out what hardware you have and not what it is labeled with.

On my reserve laptop the wifi use intel drivers in windows but it was produced by broadcom so i had to get broadcom drivers to get it working in linux.


About linux security...   I have an old laptop with ubuntu.  It is formated corectly with a partisjon for each user level and cryptated. I have lost the password and it is impossible to get in. No live cd can start and it is no way to get to the disks. Even a mini linux on a usb stick cant read the disks.