BackTrack 4 Network Manager

[SkechBoy]

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.

I know why you don't want to start up the net at boot but I've installed BT on my hard and managed to make for daily use so when i want to use bt for pentesting I'll simple stop all net processes.

I've added NM to start at boot with this code:

update-rc.d NetworkManager defaults

By the way BT is my favorite Linux distribution from now

[RubixCube]

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

then type "networkmanager start" in console

finally a strait forward answer to a question ive been asking. This might be a big help.

[Syph0n]

Greetings* well i just tryed out those less commands and now im pretty annoyed of the update-rc.d NetworkManager defaults ^^ how can i undo this action?
anyhow wicd aint really working for me (it scans and shows AP's around but i tryed to connect to my router and it never got connected so i changed from WPA TKIP PSK to WEP SKA to WEP OPN and even hex/passphrases i checked a few times)
im bored of wicd so i want to use the good old handwork to get connected to any AP.
hope that theres something like an undo command for the "update-rc.d NetworkManager defaults" cmd-line

[Archangel-Amael]

hope that theres something like an undo command for the "update-rc.d NetworkManager defaults" cmd-line

Try here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Update-rc.d

[Syph0n]

well for me it was the "sudo update-rc.d wicd remove" cmd before starting X that worked pretty fine. funny as i saw then another possibility to get wicd running without typing the commandlines to start networking ^^
check the startmenu go to 'Services/NETWORK/Start NETWORK' theres also a stop option ^^ for those who are lazy in typing all those cmd's down i guess this will be a fast handling at all. (don't forget to start wicd after)
working fine for the pre final release of bt4!