Can't make AWUS036H work in Ubuntu 12.10

Solution 1:

If you need to use the USB instead of the internal device, I suggest you blacklist the driver for the internal device. That will allow you to keep the switch on and use the USB. It has a working driver, rtl8187 and has created an interface wlan1.

Find out the driver for the internal with:

sudo lshw -C network

Find the part that refers to 'driver=' associated with wlan0, the internal. Then blacklist it:

sudo su
echo "blacklist <some_driver>" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit

Plug in the USB, reboot and it should be working. If in doubt about the correct driver to blacklist, post your findings and we'll help.