Problems loading driver for external antenna

[Richard Atcheson]

On Saturday 18 December 2010 11:30:08 John Everard wrote:
> Would anybody please be able to help me load this driver, explaining what
> keys I need to press where?  I am very new to Ubuntu.   Many thanks in
> advance!
> 
> READ ME FILE BEGINS
> Release Date: 2006-02-09, ver 1.2RTL8187 Linux driver version 1.2
>    --This driver supports RealTek RTL8187 Wireless LAN driver for   

John, it looks like you're replacing your inboard wifi card with an outboard 
USB NIC with better Antenna.  The first thing I would do is go into the bios 
and disable the onboard lan.  Then I'd reboot with the new USB thingie plugged 
in and see if Ubuntu already has a driver for the RTL8187 and let it do the 
work.  You may have to Go to System>Administration>Additional Drivers and see 
if Ubuntu will detect the need for the new driver and maybe find it for you.

If it does, the you would go into the Wireless Connections and edit 
connections where you put in the essid, wpa, password etc. as needed.

You may also google for linux drivers fo the RTL8187  chip.  On the net is a 
linux hardware support list that will tell you if that chip is supported and 
what driver it takes.

If you have to compile the driver I'm not much help.  It's been years since I 
did such a thing but I'm sure there are many gurus monitoring this list.

Richard