abferm Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 I'm having trouble logging into a wireless network with backtrack. When logging in with Windows I am prompted for a user name and password. However, when I try to connect with backtrack it asks for a pass phrase instead. Is there a standard syntax for converting username and password into a pass phrase, or do I need to use a different wifi manager or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 I'm having trouble logging into a wireless network with backtrack. When logging in with Windows I am prompted for a user name and password. However, when I try to connect with backtrack it asks for a pass phrase instead. Is there a standard syntax for converting username and password into a pass phrase, or do I need to use a different wifi manager or something? You use the same info you provide in windows. Now, before you do that, are you using wicd? Also, is your router set to 802.11 N only? If set to N only, try setting to bgn mixed mode or just g. i noticed with my router, when it was set to N only, backtrack couldn't connect to it. If I set it to G, then it worked fine. Could see the router fine under N, but it would never accept my WPA2 key when the router was running N only, but worked fine once I switched the router to G. I believe it might have been a driver issue for my card, or even a limitation in backtrack itself, but for whatever reason, my KDE 64 bit version would not connect to any N networks. Worked fine when I was booted into Windows 7(dual booting), but not under bt5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abferm Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 sorry about that, I had to choose a different type of authentication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) sorry about that, I had to choose a different type of authentication. Yeah, you must have selected, the WPA2 Enterprise that requires a radius authentication server. That's why it prompted you for a username and password. Edited August 20, 2011 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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