Wireless issues with realtek rtl8191se driver on Backtrack 4 r2 on VMware 7.0.1

[ehloworld]

Hello Backtrack Community
Good Job you guys are doing, i've been reading the forums consistent for 4 days now and cant find my answers so i decide to post up.

I am using the Toshiba Satellite L505 With the Windows 7 OS installed. I installed VMware workstation to run backtrack 4 r2 with a bridge connection, however i'm unable to bring up wlan0 whenever i run the command

/etc/init.d/networking start

, it seems to me that

lspci

wont even see my network controller. I will quote all the information i can about what i did to troubleshoot this without luck. I installed the latest linux driver from realtek official website. unpack the gz make and make install then reboot and still no luck.

code: /etc/init.d/networking start

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:b1:f4:76
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:b1:f4:76
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.2.1 port 67
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:b1:f4:76
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:b1:f4:76
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.2.23 from 192.168.2.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.2.23 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.2.23 from 192.168.2.1
bound to 192.168.2.23 -- renewal in 846229869 seconds.
if-up.d/mountnfs[eth0]: waiting for interface eth1 before doing NFS mounts
if-up.d/mountnfs[eth0]: waiting for interface eth2 before doing NFS mounts
if-up.d/mountnfs[eth0]: waiting for interface ath0 before doing NFS mounts
if-up.d/mountnfs[eth0]: waiting for interface wlan0 before doing NFS mounts
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth1.
eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth2.
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up ath0.
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.
done.

code:lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
00:07.7 System peripheral: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (rev 10)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01)
00:11.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI bridge (rev 02)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
02:00.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02)
02:03.0 USB Controller: VMware USB2 EHCI Controller

<<< NOTE: There is no Network Controller

code:lsusb

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

code:ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:b1:f4:76
inet addr:192.168.2.23 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb1:f476/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:28851 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:39906216 (39.9 MB) TX bytes:1830888 (1.8 MB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000

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:126 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:126 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6300 (6.3 KB) TX bytes:6300 (6.3 KB)

code:iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

code:dmesg

lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
pcnet32 0000:02:01.0: eth0: link up
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
pcnet32 0000:02:01.0: eth0: link up
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2

this is partial code, cant do a grep because i have no wlan module name

code:sudo lshw -C network

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:0c:29:b1:f4:76
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical logical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=pcnet32 driverversion=1.35 ip=192.168.2.23 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=255 mingnt=6 module=pcnet32 multicast=yes

I installed ndiswrapper to install the w2K .ini drivers for windows

code:

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk

Then cd to the w2K driver folder where i found net8192se.inf

code:ndiswrapper -i net8192se.inf

installing net8192se ...

code:ndiswrapper -l

net8192se : driver installed

system > Windows Wireless Driver
net8191se
hardware present: no

Please help and request additional information if you need it.

Thank You

Reguards

[sickness]

O_o: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...pci-e-nic.html

[ehloworld]

I followed what Cyberworg said and still no joy!
Are you saying that rtl8191se wont work with backtrack?

Any suggestion moderators?

[Jimmy87]

Is it a PCI-E device and will that even work with VMWare?

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...irtualbox.html

[rizler]

Unless your using a USB card you can not access wifi, your actual hardware be it wifi or not is converted to a ethernet link when connected unless its usb wifi card take a look at a alfa there relatively inexpensive

[ehloworld]

I understand that i cannot use wireless with vmware, however i also have a belkin wireless usb adapter, i get the same results with

/etc/init.d/networking start

when i connect the usb adapter

[Jimmy87]

however i also have a belkin wireless usb adapter

What model is it?

[rizler]

Besides the adapter may not work im also going to ask if you selected in vmware to connect it to the virtual machine to the usb adapter

[ehloworld]

Its a Belkin connect N150.

Yes it is connected in vmware. However the pre configuration in vmware is set to bridged. If i boot up backtrack i can see where the usb wireless is connected, if i disconnect the bridge, i loose all internet connection even though it says usb is connected

[Jimmy87]

If i boot up backtrack i can see where the usb wireless is connected, if i disconnect the bridge, i loose all internet connection even though it says usb is connected

So what is it that you're actually trying to do, you've got the internet working with your wireless adapter but when you change the network settings you lose the connection?