Wireless is kinda missing

[enchance]

It's weird but whenever I run ettercap -G and ifconfig only lo comes up. My wireless card is nowhere to be seen. Although when I try to view it using

airmon-ng

I can see my wireless card wlan0 clearly written on the screen.

I'm using BackTrack 4 (pre) Final on LiveCD booted through USB. I copied the LiveCD using unetbootin. My main OS is a LinuxMint 8 x64. So far I have no problems doing everything above in LinuxMint.

[dre360]

did you type airmon-ng start wlan0

[Snayler]

Try ifconfig wlan0 and post the output.

[enchance]

Try ifconfig wlan0 and post the output.

This is what came out after typing ifconfig wlan0

root@bt~# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0       Link encap:Ethernet   HWaddr 00:25:d3:c5:de:9e
            BROADCAST MULTICAST   MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Does that mean ifconfig does see my wireless card wlan0 but just won't recognize it as one?

For the record, this is what typing only ifconfig looks like

root@bt~# ifconfig
lo          Link encap:Local loopback
            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
            inet6 addr:  ::1/128 Scope:Host
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
            RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
            RX bytes:4092 (4.0 KB) TX bytes:4092 (4.0 KB)

did you type airmon-ng start wlan0

No good. After running ifconfig, it generates mon0 and wmaster0 but still no wlan0. Using mon0 in ettercap generates an error

Inteface "mon0" not supported (802.11 plus BSD radio information header)

And then there's wmaster0 , which when selected in ettercap won't even allow me to scan for hosts. I click Scan for hosts and nothing happens.

[Snayler]

OK, now try ifconfig wlan0 up and the ifconfig, now it should appear.

Oh, and please do not double post, edit your last post instead. It's part of the rules.

[enchance]

OK, now try ifconfig wlan0 up and the ifconfig, now it should appear.

Oh, and please do not double post, edit your last post instead. It's part of the rules.

It worked! Although ettercap keeps saying 0 hosts added to the hosts list. How can that be when the computer I'm using to type this is also connected to the wifi? I'm running backtrack on my laptop.

Btw, what is lo?

Sorry about the double post.

[Archangel-Amael]

Nice to see you got it working. Next time it will be to your advantage to leave all the fancy colors out of your post. I know the option is there but pretend it isn't. Not everyone uses the black background and as such might not see your white text as above.
LO = LoopBack = linux101

[enchance]

Nice to see you got it working. Next time it will be to your advantage to leave all the fancy colors out of your post. I know the option is there but pretend it isn't.

Haha. Been using Linux for more than a year but right now I bet I look like a real noob.