BackTrack 4 Network Manager

[lcaseyva]

Hello,

I have Backtrack 4.0 Installed and have been able to successfully crack Wep. (Great Tool!!) I think I found a bug though.

when I click knetworkmanager nothing happens. So I go down to the bottom right corner and right click the globe and select edit connections. I then fill in all the required information for my wap and yet It will not connect.

The funny thing is I can capture packets using kismet and airodump-ng with NO problem at all. So i did an ifconfig and all I see is the l0 adapter and nothing else.

I tried to modprobe iwl4965 becouse i have the Intel 4965 NIC but even after modprobing I do an Ifconfig and see only the l0 adapter.

Kismet and Airodump work fine though!!! I actually cracked wep with this very same laptop no problem.

When I do a dmesg I can see the NIC card get recognized and it is assigned IRQ 17

I can now crack WEP but how can I get Backtrack to connect to a WAP?

Note: I was able to successfully connect to the cracked WAP using windows.

Thanks

[imported_hinoshori]

i believe you have to make sure that firstly the card isnt being used by any other application

then type "networkmanager start" in console

[xorred]

/etc/init.d/networking start
/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start

also, there are a lot of scripts for configuring wpa or wep on this forum...

[floyd]

Hello,
I can now crack WEP but how can I get Backtrack to connect to a WAP?

Did you mean my WPA?

[cust0m]

got the same problem.
but starting the networkmanager solved it for me.
thanks!

[SkechBoy]

me2 thanks but how i can make NetworkManager to load automatic
i hate to type every time

/etc/init.d/networking start
/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start

[eLiT3SnIpEz]

Hello,

I have Backtrack 4.0 Installed and have been able to successfully crack Wep. (Great Tool!!) I think I found a bug though.

when I click knetworkmanager nothing happens. So I go down to the bottom right corner and right click the globe and select edit connections. I then fill in all the required information for my wap and yet It will not connect.

The funny thing is I can capture packets using kismet and airodump-ng with NO problem at all. So i did an ifconfig and all I see is the l0 adapter and nothing else.

I tried to modprobe iwl4965 becouse i have the Intel 4965 NIC but even after modprobing I do an Ifconfig and see only the l0 adapter.

Kismet and Airodump work fine though!!! I actually cracked wep with this very same laptop no problem.

When I do a dmesg I can see the NIC card get recognized and it is assigned IRQ 17

I can now crack WEP but how can I get Backtrack to connect to a WAP?

Note: I was able to successfully connect to the cracked WAP using windows.

Thanks

I had this problem as well with BT4. Too many errors, so I'm going back to 3 now. WEP's not hard to crack, but WPA is impossible if you don't have the right dictionary or the handshake. Are you trying to crack your neighbor's connection or what?

[KMDave]

I had this problem as well with BT4. Too many errors, so I'm going back to 3 now. WEP's not hard to crack, but WPA is impossible if you don't have the right dictionary or the handshake. Are you trying to crack your neighbor's connection or what?

Maybe you should file a bugreport if it has so many of them. It won't improve by itself

[Barry]

me2 thanks but how i can make NetworkManager to load automatic
i hate to type every time

/etc/init.d/networking start
/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start

No. If you want networking to start at boot use Ubuntu. Backtrack is a pentesting distribution, if you don't know why we don't want networking loaded at boot, maybe this isn't the one you should use.

[imported_wyze]

No. If you want networking to start at boot use Ubuntu. Backtrack is a pentesting distribution, if you don't know why we don't want networking loaded at boot, maybe this isn't the one you should use.

True indeed