Problems loading driver for external antenna

[John Everard]

Nils - thanks.  Yes, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10.  
I've looked up the references, and following the instructions have found that when I type lshw in the terminal I get "... configuration... driver=rtl8187", so it looks like Ubuntu has found and loaded the driver, so perhaps that wasn't the problem after all.  The lshw command seems to recognise the external antenna as wlan1.  When I go to system-administration-network tools it seems to be pointing to loopback interface, but recognises wlan1.  But when I select wlan1 and try to run Firefox it still can't load webpages.  
I sense that the solution to my problem is actually very simple, probably just persuading Firefox to look at wlan1 rather than wlan0.  Can anyone please help me finally get there?  
John

> From: kassube at gmx.net
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Problems loading driver for external antenna
> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:21:32 +0100
> 
> MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:30 AM, John Everard <johneverard at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > READ ME FILE BEGINS
> > > 
> > > < Installation >
> > > Runing the scripts can finish all operations of building up modules
> > > from the source code and start the nic.
> > > 1. Build up the drivers from the source code
> > >  ./makedrv
> > > 2. load the driver module to kernel and start up nic
> > >  ./wlan0up
> > > < Set wireless lan MIBs >
> > 
> > What happens when you do these two steps?
> 
> Probably lots of error messages in the first step already. The driver
> seems to be for ancient Linux distributions. The readme file is from
> 2006 and after that date there have been many changes to the wifi
> infrastructure in the kernel. The chances are very slim that such an old
> driver might compile with a current kernel.
> 
> However, not all is lost. At least in the kernel for Ubuntu 10.04 there
> is a module rtl8187 included. While John didn't write which Ubuntu
> version he uses, I assume that being new to Ubuntu, he downloaded the
> current version 10.10, which should include the module as well.
> Therefore the module should load automatically when the wifi adapter is
> conected to the USB port. While the readme file included in the original
> mail is barely readable, I did see something about wpa_supplicant. Well,
> that's an ancient method as well. It would probably still work, but
> nowadays Ubuntu uses the network manager with a nice GUI for the
> configuration [1]. If that doesn't help, maybe it is worth to have a
> look at [2].
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> [1] <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager0.7>
> [2] <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide>
> 
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