Problems loading driver for external antenna

[John Everard]

Richard, Thanks for this advice, which I've tried to follow.  But I fall at the first hurdle.  I try to get into my BIOS (by interrupting the start-up sequence, right?) but I don't seem to get any way to disable the onboard lan.  The nearest I get is a reference to the Lan boot setup, which is already disabled.  Am I looking in the wrong place?  
John

> From: ratcheson at gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Problems loading driver for external antenna
> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:19:20 -0600
> 
> 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
> 
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