Problems loading driver for external antenna

[Nils Kassube]

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