You cannot use you "internal" wireless card with VMware or VirtalBox in BT4 as a wireless device.

You need to get a wifi usb key!

Evok

Details:

I downloaded the BackTrack 4 Final Release (checksum is ok).

I followed this "howto" to creat the usb live : USB Live (under Ubuntu 9.10).

I set the primary boot on usb device on my...

Hi everyone,

I have the same problem booting on a usb with a thinkpad.T60 (i have checked the bios configuration, it's ok)

The backtrack live usb is working on a eeepc4g.

Any ideas?

Evok

I don't think it will change simething, but you can try it.

Did you start the networking in BT4? in a shell > /etc/init.d/networking start

You can also try this

Evok

Hi,

Did you install BT4 on your hard drive or do you use vmware?

Evok

Hi,

When you use virtualbox or vmware, (internal) wireless card cannot be used.

You need a usb wifi device or to install BT on your hard drive!!!

Evok

Hi,

You have two boot partition > dev2 and dev7.

I think dev7 took over dev2 (boot partition for Fedora)..

You need to had fedora to grub conf file

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title Fedora

Hello Backtrackers!!! :D

Did the same thing on a eeepc4g and it works well :)



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Any virtualisation software can only use USB wireless network cards as physical devices, all other types of wireless card are seen as...

I found this on an other forum



just buy a compatible usb wifi key and you will be able to sniff the wifi ;)

Evok

I have the same problem with :
VMware fusion and a macbook
and virtualbox and a thinkpad

I know that both macbook and thinkpad wifi drivers are not supported by BT4..

Did you check your...

Hi,

Try this:
1 - VMware network setting > NAT
2 - Launch BT4
3 - Open a shell
4 - /etc/init.d/networking start

Evok