or stereo speakers 275 a keyboard 280 and a display 285 it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that user interface 270 may include additional components in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention laptop controller 210 includes a connection wedge 211 for selecting a physical mode of connection or a wireless mode of connection between laptop computer 200 and wireless communicator 100 according to whether or not wireless communicator 100 is physically connected to laptop computer 200 via connector 260 respectively specifically laptop computer 200 includes drivers for low level physical and wireless communication protocols such as usb and bluetooth respectively which serve as bridges to the laptop computer 39 s networking stack the specific low level communication protocols implemented in laptop computer 200 are transparent to the laptop computer 39 s networking stack in this regard reference is made to fig5 which is a simplified diagram of a stack of communication drivers for laptop computer 200 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention connection wedge 211 is implemented as a unified communication device bridge driver 420 that is wedged between the laptop computer 39 s physical and wireless drivers 460 and 470 respectively and the laptop computer 39 s networking stack 410 unified bridge driver 420 operates above a communication device class driver 430 and a dial up networking class driver 450 which in turn operate above the laptop computer 39 s usb and bluetooth 360 and 370 respectively.