Please help me configure my wifi card.

[shadowhound1]

i have a problem after running BT4 on my computer i have no internet so i follow these steps also i have a wired connection

1. ifconfig -a to find out what networks i have
2. learn my network is eth0 so i take the next step
3. ifconfig eth0 up

and it works just my internet doesent work afterwards so could someone please help me out thank you

[lupin]

Did you follow this guide?

[shadowhound1]

i tried
/etc/init.d/networking start
and it didn't work it said it wasent found

[micole]

i tried
/etc/init.d/networking start
and it didn't work it said it wasent found

Do you have your Ethernet cable plugged in?
Does your setup allow DHCP?
Are you trying to connect to a wireless network?
Do you have your name servers setup?

i have a problem after running BT4 on my computer i have no internet so i follow these steps also i have a wired connection

See, the "also I have" makes me think your trying to connect to wireless and not your wired connection...


EDIT:
You gotta love people who don't understand the purpose of a forum. Just got this PM from Shadowhound1 (OP) asking me for help, instead of just following up his original question on here.

Hey i mannaged to get my wired network up by doing
ifup ath0

i got a new wireless usb today with a 3 DB atenna attached i am going later modifi this haha

but it doesent seem to work when i try to activate it by doing

ifup ra0

it tells me
ignoring interface ra0=ra0

could you help me out please

So, shadowhound1, have we learned what a forum is for? If you have a problem, you search to see if someone else had the same problem. If you can not find your problem (unlikely) then you post a question and hope to get positive feedback (likely if the question is uncommon), this way if someone else has a problem/question of the same nature they do the first step again (searching).

Sending a PM asking for help is just defeating that purpose of a community. So I pose the question for everyone to answer, what is shadowhound1's problem (sent to me via PM), and what can he do to fix it?

EDIT, EDIT:
Seems that shadowhound1 posted his question... Seems he just copy-pasted his PM to me here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...wifi-card.html

[shadowhound1]

i learnt that doing
ifup ath0
makes the wired connection work

i bought a wifi card today and have a problem getting that to work

[Archangel-Amael]

Do not double post or create a new thread on the same topic.
Check the how-to and faq sections of the forums. There will be a guide titled how-to get networking started.
This topic has been covered.