BackTrack 4 R1 Development release

I took the development release for a spin - VirtIO not working, so it's not possible to run BT in a KVM/VirtIO virtual environment :(

Backtrack must be one of the only Linux distributions left, which doesn't support VirtIO out-of-the-box. Ubuntu/Fedora/CentOS/OpenSuse/ArchLinux/[lots of other distributions] all supports VirtIO out-of-the-box, to allow installation onto virtual VirtIO block devices, use of VirtIO NICs, etc.

Essentially, these are the missing modules:

• CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m (Virtualization -> PCI driver for virtio devices)
• CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m (Virtualization -> Virtio balloon driver)
• CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m (Device Drivers -> Block -> Virtio block driver)
• CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=m (Device Drivers -> Network device support -> Virtio network driver)
• CONFIG_VIRTIO=m (automatically selected)
• CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING=m (automatically seleced)

There is no disadvantage in enabling these modules, it will not conflict with Vmware or other modules.

The modules should also be included in the initramfs to allow booting from VirtIO block devices.

It would be highly appreciated if you could fix this, I'll be more than happy to help out with testing if you need a tester... :)

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Originally Posted by risingsun

I have a dell mini 10v with a "Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) - wireless adapter"

-Packet Injection works 100%
-AirDrop works 100%

but there's a few error comes out when bootin.. but it seems it doesnt affect the wireless adapter cuz i can use AirCrack suite Perfectly. but i will still post it below..

root@bt:~# dmesg | grep -ni error
728:b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
729:b43-phy0 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system. Please use PIO instead.
730:b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) .

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I get the same thing on my Dell mini 9. I have a broadcom 4312 (14e4:4315). I updated the b43-fwcutter to version 13 to get my firmware (4.178.10.4). Other then the error, I have no problems with aircrack-ng nor use of encryption enabled APs.

one solution to all problems is to move out of intrepid and go into lucid

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Originally Posted by joker5bb

one solution to all problems is to move out of intrepid and go into lucid

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Its people like you who have no idea how hard it is to get all the stuff in backtrack to work together.

I have to agree with you Purehate, moving to Lucid is just not the answer.

duh I know its hard, but without it backtrack is just fail, updating packages is a bitch, ah dam they dont have it in the repo...
and when it comes to new hardware, backtrack fails again
Just got to form another team of developers

yea and i know we still need a custom kernel, that only to fix injection for wireless

Seem to be having issues with promisc mode with the WUSB54GC which works fine in BT4F.

Tested on netbook Samsung N110, promisc mode and injection working fine with the built-in Atheros chipset.

Code:

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root@bt:~# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 13b1:0020 Linksys WUSB54GC 802.11g Adapter [ralink rt73]
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ac8:c326 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13fe:3100 Kingston Technology Company Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. A-Link BlueUsbA2 Bluetooth
root@bt:~# airmon-ng


Interface      Chipset        Driver

wlan0          Atheros        ath5k - [phy0]
wlan1          Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy3]

root@bt:~# airmon-ng start wlan1

Interface      Chipset        Driver

wlan0          Atheros        ath5k - [phy0]
wlan1          Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy3]SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
                                (monitor mode enabled on mon0)

root@bt:~# airmon-ng

Interface      Chipset        Driver

wlan0          Atheros        ath5k - [phy0]
wlan1          Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy3]
mon0            Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy3]

root@bt:~# aireplay-ng -9 mon0
ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory
root@bt:~#

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EDIT
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the WUSB54GC does not work at all, get the same error message when trying to 'up' the interface.

1024x600 on Intel 3150... ? Thx

Would you please offer us a special copy of the kernel, which is compiled without PAE ?
My old laptop with a Dothan CPU cannot boot the new bt4 r1, due to the lack of PAE feather. And I really wan't to test this new version on my poor laptop.

we would have to wait until nl80211 is out of development, ath5k/ath9k are totaly broken