Re: Correction: Help to get USB WiFi RTL8187 working

2012-11-09 Thread Lee Gold
,,,snip,,, . When I do $ lsmod I see plenty of mention of rtl8187 and tried > adding rtl8187 to /etc/modules, but the LED on it will not light. > ifconfig "sees it" as wlan0. Network Manager cites it but it's grayed > out. snip,,, should be: ifconfig "sees it" as wlan1 -- http://www.fastmail.

Help to get USB WiFi RTL8187 working

2012-11-09 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Using Lubuntu 12.04. I can not get an external USB WIFI rtl8187 interface to work. These units really pull a signal in but I've always had problems with them and recent Ubuntu flavors. Wlan0 is the builtin one in my laptop which works OK. wlan1 is the USB trl8187. I turn off via harware swit