Can't find my wireless networkcard with backtrack

[Jacke]

Hey!
I am a uber newbie to linux and I just got my first laptop from school.
It is an dell inspiron 1520 and the networkcard is Intel 4965AGN.

I have tried everything I have found in this forum maybe I do the wrong way I don't know.

The problem is that backtrack isn't finding the card.
I have written ifconfig the two connection is found one that is named eth0 and lo after that I write iwconfig, then it says "no wireless extensions" on both eth0 and lo.

Great regards
Jacke

[balding_parrot]

Try this

 ifconfig -a

and you should see your card

[Jacke]

When I write ifconfig -a it shows eth0 and lo it doesn't tell me anything about my networkcard what I can see.

It says

eth0 Link encap: Ethernet
lo link encap: local loopback

that is the big difference what I can see.

cheers for the fast reply

[balding_parrot]

That is a draft N card, which has almost no support at all.

There is hope, however it is small.

You need to update to the latest version of aircrack-ng 1.0 dev, then you can use airdriver-ng to install a driver.
The instructions to use airdriver are here, ignore that it says that it is not available till a future release.

What functionality you will get, I have no idea, it could be none, but then you could get everything. You will just have to try and see.

That is the best I could find.

[Danmit]

Google for mac80211
Then iwl4965



I have one of those.



Good luck