Problems loading driver for external antenna

[Colin Law]

On 19 December 2010 23:19, John Everard <johneverard at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

If it says you are connected then that suggests that your basic
connection problem has been solved, so it should be time to move on to
basic network troubleshooting.  I am sure there is a Ubuntu guide
somewhere but I cannot find it.  If you right click the Network
Manager applet in the top panel and select Connection Information what
does it say?

Colin