oreoha Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 hi there i am confronted with a Big problem i would like to install backtrack 4 onto my new christmas present a new Acer aspire one D250 but come to find out that the computer is having difficulties hooking up to my home network (or any network for that matter) i can not hook up via Wifi or even straight up Ethernet! and if i can not hook up to the interwebs i don't want to install it if anyone has any suggestions please reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 What bit doesn't work specifically? Do you get any errors? Does it work with Ubuntu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshan Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Try this before doing startx in backtrack. update-rc.d wicd defaults /etc/init.d/wicd start startx You should then be able to set up a connecting after starting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Is there a radio function key on the keyboard to enable/disable the wifi card. Should be somehting like little Fn button. Usually "Fn+2" enables/disables the card, or something to that effect. As for wired connection, if using dhcp on your router, it should be as simple as typing dhclient eth0 and get an address from dhcp on the router/network you are on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shonen Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 From memory all network cards are disabled by default on backtrack 4. Been a while since I have used it. Digip's suggestion was my issue and after running dhclient before startx my networking issue went away. http://backtrack4.blogspot.com/2009/02/bac...oo-release.html It may also pay to see if you can set a static IP address and see if it still works. ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 replace all ip addresses and subnetmasks to those that correspond to your network. ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 To manually add a default gateway: route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 Of course you would replace the IP address with your default gateways, also the eth0 interface is not always needed! To manually assign your DNS servers: echo nameserver 192.168.1.1 > /etc/resolv.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoha Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 Try this before doing startx in backtrack. update-rc.d wicd defaults /etc/init.d/wicd start startx You should then be able to set up a connecting after starting. the "/etc/init.d/wicd start" failed but thank you for trying to help me out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoha Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 From memory all network cards are disabled by default on backtrack 4. Been a while since I have used it. Digip's suggestion was my issue and after running dhclient before startx my networking issue went away. http://backtrack4.blogspot.com/2009/02/bac...oo-release.html It may also pay to see if you can set a static IP address and see if it still works. ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 replace all ip addresses and subnetmasks to those that correspond to your network. ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 To manually add a default gateway: route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 Of course you would replace the IP address with your default gateways, also the eth0 interface is not always needed! To manually assign your DNS servers: echo nameserver 192.168.1.1 > /etc/resolv.conf the errors i am getting are SIOCSIFADDER: permission denied SIOCSIFFLAGS: permission denied also i tried running dhclient before the startx command and all permissions are denied if you have any other suggestions i would like you to reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoha Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 THANK YOU ALL OF YOU FOR REPLYING im alot closer to where i need to be but i am not able to connect to the internet so if you guys or anyone else has any suggestions please im willing to try anything... my state right now is i believe my Acer i sending and receiving packets now because the lights on the Ethernet jack are lighting up (not alot but enough to make me happy)... like i said im getting closer i belive and would like people to reply with any ideas they have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Permission denied probably because you need to be root. You can use "sudo su" and change your user to root in a terminal, or just dont forget to use "sudo" first to prefix the commands. Like: sudo ifconfig eth0 up sudo dhclient eth0 sudo shutdown -h now etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoha Posted January 1, 2010 Author Share Posted January 1, 2010 Permission denied probably because you need to be root. You can use "sudo su" and change your user to root in a terminal, or just dont forget to use "sudo" first to prefix the commands. Like: sudo ifconfig eth0 up sudo dhclient eth0 sudo shutdown -h now etc... i got it to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoha Posted January 1, 2010 Author Share Posted January 1, 2010 i got it to receive internet which is great but it now takes Google like 20sec to load Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Are you running it off a live disc, or installed to the HDD? If installed, try Opera instead of FF. Much faster browser for BT4 in my opinion. This also depends on your Internet speed to begin with, but nothing will be blazing fast on an Atom CPU with 1gig of ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirWolfgang Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Back|track 4 is rather buggy atm.. dhclient as super user(su) is what you should be using.. But I would suggest using BT3 until BT4 final if you do not know what your are doing, I been having issues with the pre release when it comes to upgrading.. and remember!! Sudo !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Im using a nearly final version of BT4 (I assume, since I got it from Mati). It has nearly the latest MSF pre installed, and is only like 2 updates behind from what is out now. A lot of what I dont like, is the ubuntu side putting in default network card drivers for shit, that when you go and put the enhanced ones in for packet injection, etc, you get all kind sof conflicts and have to find the ubuntu pre installed version and rename or delete them to clear up the issues. Was casuing my wireless card to work intermittingly since modprobe loaded BOTH drivers for the card at the same time, was hell tyring to find all the paths to the drivers and places it was calling it from to disable all the links. Once I did that and ran updatedb problem went away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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