A wireless add-on

One thing I found that seemed to be missing from Ubuntu was a good way to connect to whatever wireless networks were around. Out of the box, you boot up and it connects to your wireless network. In a perfect world, this would work great. But this doesn't work on a laptop. I plan on going to different places with this thing.

So, a post to the forums, and I get pointed to gtkWifi. This thing is just like the wireless tool in XP, but it allows you to store the keys to multiple networks and select them automatically. I have only this one network that I will connect to on a regular basis, so I can't test this.

It comes as a .deb package, so it was easy to install. Launch a terminal and do:

dpckg --install package.deb

It installed just right. It even automatically put it into the "other" menu. This is just too simple. It will just take a short time for Linux to be really main stream once people really look at this distro.