RE: Problems loading driver for external antenna


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@xxxxxxx
To: ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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