Ubuntu Take 2 - Follow up

Yesterday, I talked about my woes in getting a Linksys WMP54GS PCI wireless card to work on an almost 10 year old computer that I successfully installed Xubuntu (Ubuntu Light) on for a customer.

The "official" instructions on how to accomplish the task are lengthy and require many commands typed into a terminal windows (think DOS prompt). After many dry runs and dead ends, I found this gem buried in the Ubuntu forums. Ubuntu forum user CompWiz18 posted an automated tool to get many wireless cards up and running properly with Ubuntu or any of its derivatives. After downloading the tool, all I had to do was double-click the install, verify that I wanted it to install my wireless, then sit back and watch as line after line of code was typed and executed for me. After less than 3 or so minutes and a restart, the wireless was up and working.

This tool worked great, and I wanted to publicly thank CompWiz18. As much persistance as it took to find a resolution, I don't think it took any more time than talking to a newbie on a PC help line reading from a manual and messing with settings that shouldn't have been changed anyway.

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