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 [1] 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 [2]. Ubuntu forum user CompWiz18 posted an automated tool [3]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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