Linksys WUSB54GC driver help??

[NoCover]

i bought a Linksys WUSB54GC from newegg.com.. i looked on the driver compatibility list and i found my usb dongle on their, it says that its supported but it also said the trick is the driver.. how do i install this driver so it will work in backtrack?

[sWiTcH]

THIS COMES STRAIGHT OUT OF THIS THREAD:

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/sho...highlight=rt73)

ORIGINALLY FROM SHAMANVIRTUEL

First of all, you need to download this:

http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1.tar.bz2
(just save to root)
(this comes from shamanvirtuel's thread: http://forums.remote-exploit.org/sho...highlight=rt73 )
Code:

-Shutdown WUSB54GC:
ifconfig rausb0 down

-Uninstall drivers:
rmmod rt73

-Extract new drivers to root:
tar -xvjf rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1.tar.bz2

-cd to driver dir + install it:
cd rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1
cd Module
make
make install
modprobe rt73

-ready to go:
ifconfig rausb0 up
iwconfig rausb0 mode monitor channel xx rate 1M

-now try to capture packets:
airmon-ng stop rausb0
macchanger -m xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
airmon-ng start rausb0
airodump-ng rausb0
etc.....

[NoCover]

thanks for all that help.. but im stuck on now is for backtrack to read my usb adapter.. i am running VMware and when i load up the backtrack it reads my built in wifi card(uncompatible one) but not the usb.. i enabled usb in the settings but nothing happened.. i tryed to load backtrack from booting to the cd but the password prompt doesnt work.. i type in root and toor and it doesnt llog in,, it only does on vmware... wtf do i do this now

[sWiTcH]

thanks for all that help.. but im stuck on now is for backtrack to read my usb adapter.. i am running VMware and when i load up the backtrack it reads my built in wifi card(uncompatible one) but not the usb.. i enabled usb in the settings but nothing happened.. i tryed to load backtrack from booting to the cd but the password prompt doesnt work.. i type in root and toor and it doesnt llog in,, it only does on vmware... wtf do i do this now

Could you give me a little more info about how you set up vmware to run bt?

[balding_parrot]

While bt is running, insert the usb and then from the vmware menu there is an option to let the vm access to the usb device, select it.

Your usb device should now be working

[shamanvirtuel]

go on aircrack-ng vmware page

download rt73 special dedicated vmware machine =)

it's nice and run well

ftp://vmware.aircrack-ng.org/TransRT73.zip

[NoCover]

thank you all for the help.. i downloaded the rt73 vmware thing but its weird.. i boot it up and it asks for a usb so i stick one in and it reads it then stops.. wtf?
im gona mess around with it for a while and try to get it,, my driver still wont install
i got the usb to come up in Backtrack.. but it wont come up when i type in ifconfig the only one that does is my uncompatilbe intel wifi card..
its marked as LO

[andy1]

Hi SwItCh
I'm trying to run the make command in the directory but I'm getting errors on BT3 -

I'll need to write them down unless this is a common problem for BT3? any ideas

I'm only trying to build these drivers because i'm not having much luck with the ones that come with the BT3 .iso

[pimpplaya]

sorry i cant quote yet but i have troubles

when i goto the step cd dir/Module
then i type make (it says to me
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.21.5/build: no such file or directory. stop.
rt73.ko failed to build!
make: *** [module] error 1

when i type iwconfig it reals the ESSID router
mode: managed freq: 2.437 ghz access point 00.06.24.eb.fa.12 bit rate: 54 mbs
rts thr off fragment thr: off
link quality=100/100 signal level -36 dbm noice level -79 dbm
rx invalid nwid 0 rx invalid crypt 0 rx invalid frag 0
tx excessive retries 0 invalid misc 0 missed beacon 0

If this helps?

[pimpplaya]

ok good news, when i loaded my laptop and started backtrack KDE to ram (which i just wanted to try to see what it did) it loaded everything perfect didnt have to touch nothing, internet works perfect have not tried anything else yet because now i can get to the forums from my laptop instead of being on 2 different computers. so if anyone is having problems try booting BT3 KDE to RAM see if it works....thxs...next step is learning the basics