Snooble Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Hello everyone, first post on here. I have made a Backtrack LiveCD. With which i want to test my WEP's security. This is my first Linux system. So, i've logged in "root" - "toor" and then "xstart" and then i get to the desktop. But when i click on the wireless help thing, it says it can't detect my wireless card. My wireless card is the Netgear WG311v2. What do i do? I'm assuming drivers. but its a liveCD. My thanks go out to anyone who's read this post. Snooble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W4RP3D Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Ive only mucked around with backtrack, but i do no that it doesn't automaticly connect to a network. I think you have to type ifconfig eth0 up dhcpcd eth0 into the console Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snooble Posted January 20, 2007 Author Share Posted January 20, 2007 thank you very much i will try tonight and post back the results. I really hope this works because this is my first time using Linux and wlan drivers fucking up shouldn't happen to a newby :D Snooble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 most Wlan devices wont work with backtrack, this is caused by Linux in general not really having a wide range of drivers for them. If u are new to linux, and want your Wlan to work, most times it is suggested to go with Ubunto, since it is Driver friendly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinata Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I would recommend appending either of the following options at boot time: pci=assign-bussess or acpi=off When I had trouble with my Linksys WG511Tv4 I put both of these in my lilo.conf file and Linux had no trouble seeing them, however you should be able to append them at boot time as well. You should be able to use the linux-wlan-ng drivers if you have a Prism chipset, which I am assuming since allot of the Linksys wireless cards Ive used have the Prism chipset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 You can try ndiswrapper to set up your wireless, it would be annoying to set up but it would work. But given the distro your using you probably want your card to run in promiscuous mode which will not work if you use ndiswrapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forgotten Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 also eth0 may not work, always try wlan0 too. I found out that my wireless isn't eth0... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepN1KE Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 If you just run Kismet, do you get any wireless network detection? This should work regardless of any specific configuration in my experiance, but I have never tried it with a PCI based card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Stress Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hello everyone, first post on here. I have made a Backtrack LiveCD. With which i want to test my WEP's security. This is my first Linux system. So, i've logged in "root" - "toor" and then "xstart" and then i get to the desktop. But when i click on the wireless help thing, it says it can't detect my wireless card. My wireless card is the Netgear WG311v2. What do i do? I'm assuming drivers. but its a liveCD. My thanks go out to anyone who's read this post. Snooble mkay after a little research it appears your wg311v2 has a atheros chipset which is good. What you need to do is do a iwconfig and see if it lists your wireless card. If it does more than likely it'll show as ath0 or ath1 Then if it lists your card, if your just wanting to connect to a network you'll iwconfig ath0 mode managed iwconfig ath0 essid wirelessssid key wirelesskey I think that's right on the last 2 commands for connecting if not it's something like that. It's been awhile since I've done any wireless auditing :D Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a5an0 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 ifup ath0 or ifconfig ath0 up assuming that your card is ath0, it may be ath1 or eth1. After the card is up, u can either run kismet to find a network or iwconfig to set it. good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twist3r Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I did some digging, I have an atheros mini-pci card that I bought off of ebay. backtrack needs me to run this to set it up: airmon-ng start wifi0 this causes the card to be detected and sets up ath1 for monitor mode however.... I can't detect any wireless networks using the two wifi setup/config programs in backtrack any ideas? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain_Soph_Aur Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I have just started with wireless network and linux. I tryed loads of distros, but always get back to ubuntu. It's easy to install and it got a great collection of wlan drivers. The tip i can give you, is to install Ubuntu or to download nUbuntu live cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twist3r Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 yes that's a very good idea. Actually the other night I tried nUbuntu, and the drivers worked automatically and even connected to a network automatically, however, it seems the madwifi drivers were still to old, so my card wouldn't go into monitor mode or something atm I'm going to try installing ubuntu or xubuntu and try installing the newest madwifi drivers, then the newest airscript-ng and then airoscript Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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