Problems loading driver for external antenna

[John Everard]

Nils
Thanks again.  I've entered the SSID but when I try to run Firefox it just spins round and round, and then gives up and says it can't find the servers for any of the five tabs I use.  I know they are all fine because I have a machine running Chrome over Windows sitting next to my Ubuntu machine which reads them all without problems.  Similarly when I go to Update Manager it tells me that no updates are available.  As I have been off-line for over a week I find that difficult to believe - I suspect that it too cannot respond to the signal from the external antenna.  But when I click on the wireless icon in the top bar it shows that it is connected to the right network and has 80% strength.  
So near and yet so far!  Can you or anyone else offer any further advice please?  
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 18:26:03 +0100
> 
> John Everard wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Great.
> 
> >  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.
> 
> Wrong place (probably due to the not so smart naming of the menu) ... 
> you should go to System -> Administration -> Preferences -> Network 
> Connections. Select the wireless tab and click the "Add" button. Then 
> configure the wireless network with network name (SSID), security type 
> and password. I think you can leave the IPv4 and IPv6 settings with 
> their default values.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
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