Atheros AR9285 Wireless Adapter Problems Using Backtrack 5 R2

Hello guys,

I'm kind of new to Backtrack but I have some good understanding of how things work, I have a Lenovo Ideapad Y560 with an built in Atheros AR9285, I have read lots and lots of tutorials and guides to see how to fix the following problem:

I don't get any results when I type Airmon-ng, I have installed Compat wireless 2.6.38-rc4-1.tar.bz2 and WICD
I have also made sure that in WICD>Preferences>Wireless Adapter it has WLAN0 in it...
Furthermore, I have installed the Aircrack installation...

What should I do?

Thanks in Advance!

Wep? wpa-wpa2? Have you tried WPA-WPA2? Only WEP doesn't work? Both encryption don't work?

Need more info..Certainly WEp has issues on ath9k module sometimes even upgrading compat-wireless.

You might want to upgrade to BT5r3 : ----> http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backt...acktrack-5-r3/

Also try this:
rmmod ath9k
modprobe ath9k nohwcrypt=1

Try to connect...

Luck

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Originally Posted by maverik35

Wep? wpa-wpa2? Have you tried WPA-WPA2? Only WEP doesn't work? Both encryption don't work?

Need more info..Certainly WEp has issues on ath9k module sometimes even upgrading compat-wireless.

You might want to upgrade to BT5r3 : ----> http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backt...acktrack-5-r3/

Also try this:
rmmod ath9k
modprobe ath9k nohwcrypt=1

Try to connect...

Luck

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Hey Maverik, Thanks for your help! This worked out just great, turns out It was the virtual machine, anyway I now have Backtrack 5 R2 (Gnome) installed on a live USB and everything works just fine, except that when I boot it and type in Startx, a black screen appears, I have read lots and lots of guides and tutorials on this and they have said that I should type i915.modeset=1 in the GRUB, I do, however the blackscreen still appears. Any suggestions?

Btw, I installed Ubuntu 12.10 but I feel that backtrack boots on it's own, does Ubuntu have anything to do with it? Cause I'm dual booting win7 and Ubuntu. With backtrack live USB when I need it..
Thanks a lot !

Try these commands.

This command will tell you the interface.
iwconfig

This command will tell you if your wireless is turned off.
dmesg|tail -20

This command will tell you if the wireless is being blocked.
rfkill -list

Once you let me know the error, I can help you out from there. Also you can search for me on YouTube, I am curemymind.

Thanks maan! My only problem right now is doing Startx without the blackscreen :S I have tried the i918.modeset=1 and it didnt solve anything :S
PS: I'm booting BT5R2 from USB

It is a video issue..But why using intel kms driver (i915)..Do you have an intel graphics card?

Post output of:
lspci | grep -i vga (at the beggining of output there is this PCI ID : xx:xx.x)
lspci -vvs xx:xx.x

Let's see what type of card you have and the driver used...

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Originally Posted by fightclub

Try these commands.

This command will tell you the interface.
iwconfig

This command will tell you if your wireless is turned off.
dmesg|tail -20

This command will tell you if the wireless is being blocked.
rfkill -list

Once you let me know the error, I can help you out from there. Also you can search for me on YouTube, I am curemymind.

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root@bt:~# dmesg|tail -20
[ 19.732518] udev: starting version 151
[ 20.316584] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 20.472953] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Host SMBus controller not enabled!
[ 20.533921] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 20.911135] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 20.911511] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[ 21.022448] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 21.349103] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4
[ 22.469380] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[ 22.625730] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 22.805475] snd_ens1371 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 33.024638] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1361.060756] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 1361.187362] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 1361.187373] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[ 1361.187382] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 1361.187389] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 1361.187396] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 1361.187402] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 1361.187408] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)


oot@bt:~# rfkill -list
Usage: rfkill [options] command
Options:
--version show version (0.4)
Commands:
help
event
list [IDENTIFIER]
block IDENTIFIER
unblock IDENTIFIER
where IDENTIFIER is the index no. of an rfkill switch or one of:
<idx> all wifi wlan bluetooth uwb ultrawideband wimax wwan gps fm
root@bt:~#

same problem here I can not connect with my wifi card ATHEROS AR9285
I did install compat wireless 3.5.1 I read in another thread, but in WICD it says : no wireless network found

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID: off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr off Fragment thr : off
Encryption key : off
Power Management: on

eth0 no wireless extensions.

airmon-ng


Interface Chipset Driver

wlan0 Atheros AR9285 ath9k - [phy0]

any help is welcome

SOLUTION FROM MAVERICK35 FOUND IN ANOTHER THREAD :



Wep? wpa-wpa2? Have you tried WPA-WPA2? Only WEP doesn't work? Both encryption don't work?

Need more info..Certainly WEp has issues on ath9k module sometimes even upgrading compat-wireless.

You might want to upgrade to BT5r3 : ----> http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backt...acktrack-5-r3/

Also try this:
rmmod ath9k
modprobe ath9k nohwcrypt=1

Try to connect...

Luck

Last edited by maverik35; 12-01-2012 at 12:32 PM.

post output of : lspci -v

Look for the wifi device and see what module was loaded by kernel.

Also check the module: lsmod | grep -i ath --------> and see if it was loaded. It should show the ath9k.

Luck.