E1337Recon Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I've recently switched my main OS from Ubuntu 11.10 to Backtrack 5 R2 and I can't seem to use both my ethernet port and my wifi card at the same time. This was not an issue however using Ubuntu and I'm not quite sure why it is using Backtrack when they are very similar. This is part of the output I get using lspci to find my network adapters: 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) If anyone has any suggestion to fix this it would be great so that I can use my pineapple again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I've recently switched my main OS from Ubuntu 11.10 to Backtrack 5 R2 and I can't seem to use both my ethernet port and my wifi card at the same time. This was not an issue however using Ubuntu and I'm not quite sure why it is using Backtrack when they are very similar. This is part of the output I get using lspci to find my network adapters: 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) If anyone has any suggestion to fix this it would be great so that I can use my pineapple again. You have to disable the networking manager. Right click the icon and disable networking or kill it in terminal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E1337Recon Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 I killed the process but was unable to use iwconfig to connect to the network. This is the command I used to try to connect to my home network. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network_Name key s:Network_Pass Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. But as you can see it failed to set the key and every time I've tried to find another way to do it it's always the same result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Connect to your WiFi with network manager, then turn off network manager, run the pineapple script. That's how I've had people do it in the past and that fixed their issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E1337Recon Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) Thanks for the help Mr-Protocol, I appreciate it. Edited May 22, 2012 by E1337Recon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Thanks for the help Mr-Protocol, I appreciate it. That get it working for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineDominator Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I killed the process but was unable to use iwconfig to connect to the network. This is the command I used to try to connect to my home network. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network_Name key s:Network_Pass Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. But as you can see it failed to set the key and every time I've tried to find another way to do it it's always the same result. you might want to look into wpa supplicant. I have my bt comp use it to connect to any wpa wifi networks, it's a bit tricky to set up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E1337Recon Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) That get it working for you? No unfortunately it's not working for me. I removed wicd and wicd-gtk to make sure those weren't an issue anymore and now I just use wpa_supplicant to connect to my network. The issue is when I plug in the ethernet cable from my pineapple to my laptop it's not even recognized. I can connect fine over WiFi to the pineapple and manage it like that bt i don't have a second wifi card to tether it to. Edited May 22, 2012 by E1337Recon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneakyaussie Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) :) I logged in to ask this same question and have tried all the above. I start up wifi. Turn off manager. Plug in mark4 and run the script. It kicks my wifi every time. How do I kill manager in terminal? 'service network-manager stop' Network-manager: unrecognizable service Edited May 22, 2012 by sneakyaussie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 networking stop I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneakyaussie Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) /etc/init.d/wicd stop This shuts off wlan0 or eth0. Bt5 r2. Mk4 1.1.1? Alfa awus036h I can connect no problems to mk4/eth0. I can connect to interwebs with Alfa wlan0 I cant tether as it boots me off wireless to connect to eth0... Aaaaagh lol Can I replicate this- 245 times Also tried dhclient wlan0 as suggested. I have cat6 wired through my house. I can't understand why I can't plug mk4 into one of these points and bypass the Alfa altogether to tether the mk4. Edited May 23, 2012 by sneakyaussie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techsavvy34 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 You can connect directly to your Internet using one of your cat6 outlets. You just have to use the wan port on the pineapple instead of the LAN/Poe port. Take a look at this link it shows you how to do it. https://github.com/sebkinne/wifipineapple/wiki/WAN-Port Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmyths Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Hey guys, been a forum crawler for a while. Just got my mk IV today, but have been running a v2 for about a year. I had to share this, because I used to have the same problems. I discovered this a few months ago. The simplest way is to just change the wired interface in wicd preferences. You will be able to run pineapple.sh and still use network manager. HTH :) K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Fett Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Hey guys, been a forum crawler for a while. Just got my mk IV today, but have been running a v2 for about a year. I had to share this, because I used to have the same problems. I discovered this a few months ago. The simplest way is to just change the wired interface in wicd preferences. You will be able to run pineapple.sh and still use network manager. HTH K. Do you use this steps: Start BT Start WICD and change the wired interface (ex. etho to eth5) Connect to wireless network Run ./wp4.sh Ready to go? Sometimes doesnt works for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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