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Contributor deejross on the Internet & Networking category

Better wi-fi support  
Written by neilneil2000 the 29 Feb 08 at 00:20. Global category: Internet & Networking. In development
More support for more wireless chipsets out of the box and "Windows style" ease of set up.

I have spent may a day trying to configure wireless cards on Ubuntu, often without much luck!

Please also deliver more support for what they are both wireless PCI cards and USB, as it is currently very low base of drivers for such devices
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #295
Written by neilneil2000 the 29 Feb 08 at 00:20.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #295 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Selected solution (#2): never ever download network drivers
Written by snap the 27 Apr 10 at 17:30.
The OS should never need to download network drivers.

Here is what I experienced 2 minutes ago:

1. Disable closed wifi driver (I wanted to try the free one)
2. Enable the free network driver

Result: Ubuntu tries to download the driver but you have no Internet connection ! Why was it removed from disk ?? If I had no other network card, I would be very embarrassed.

In other words, I think network drivers should never be removed from hard disk, or whatever great idea not to self-destruct its network connection.

See the 61 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 26 May 11 at 14:43) >>

Include GUFW as a GUI firewall frontend.  
Written by rsingh the 1 Jul 08 at 11:06. Global category: Internet & Networking. Already implemented
One of the things included in Hardy was ufw (Uncomplicated firewall wall), but everything has to be done via CLI. There is a very nice GUI frontend being developed for it and it would be nice if it is bundled as a default package.

Links to the project:
https://launchpad.net/gui-ufw
http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/index.html


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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #10556
Written by rsingh the 1 Jul 08 at 11:06.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #10556 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Simple Bridge of network connections  
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Written by jjmanton the 29 Feb 08 at 04:03. Global category: Internet & Networking. New
How come in windows I can select 2 network connections, right click, and bridge them with no hassle?

In linux, I have to use firestarter or some other complicated way of doing a simple task.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #825
Written by jjmanton the 29 Feb 08 at 04:03.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #825 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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