cant use my internal wifi card on my laptop with iso image.

[jacob902uhhs]

hey i have a questiong about laptops. I havent found a post telling me exactly what i need. the main question is can i use my laptop to run bt. i can start the iso image on my live dvd. but when i airmon-ng and use my card's name it doesnt recognize it at all. and idk what exactly im doing wrong. should i use the MVware player instead? ive heard its glitchy though

i have a HD Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC and i have an internal hard drive and the iso image file of the backtrack 4 r2 will not identify my internal wireless card which is a Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (sorry if i put too much information in, just trying to solve this). should i not use the bt i burned onto my dvd and use the VMware Virtual Player.

just trying to figure this out. any help would be awesome!!! ill work with u best i can. still getting the hang of bt.

[sickness]

(sorry if i put too much information in, just trying to solve this).

You did not even put half the information required to solve this.
Tell us taken steps, issues, basic command outputs, followed guides, etc.

[jacob902uhhs]

ok well here it goes. startx works perfectly fine and when i try to put my card in monitor mode the device doesnt respond saying there is no such device. when networking and wicd are both started i try to go into the wicd and look at available networks.

i know my card works i just dont know why it wont work in the bt4. i need a dam number to call for this ****.

root@bt:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:0a:a9:e9:68:2f
inet addr:16.160.3.159 Bcast:16.160.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::ca0a:a9ff:fee9:682f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4051 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8414593 (8.4 MB) TX bytes:407443 (407.4 KB)
Interrupt:43 Base address:0x4000

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:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1900 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:1900 (1.9 KB)

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 215277 14
sbs 8489 0
sbshc 2608 1 sbs
hed 1147 0
mperf 891 0
cpufreq_conservative 7564 0
cpufreq_powersave 634 0
cpufreq_performance 638 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6994 0
cpufreq_stats 3073 0
freq_table 2007 2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
iptable_filter 884 0
ip_tables 9231 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 10782 2 iptable_filter,ip_tables
parport_pc 18091 0
lp 7036 0
parport 24431 2 parport_pc,lp
arc4 1046 2
ecb 1565 2
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 1911 1
snd_seq_dummy 1023 0
joydev 7824 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 43041 1
rtc_cmos 7838 0
rtc_core 11455 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 1534 1 rtc_core
hp_wmi 4504 0
snd_seq_oss 23301 0
ath9k 68839 0
snd_seq_midi 3720 0
snd_hda_intel 18438 0
snd_hda_codec 56424 3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_in tel
snd_hwdep 4642 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 33635 0
video 15550 0
output 1296 1 video
snd_mixer_oss 12386 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_rawmidi 14559 1 snd_seq_midi
ath9k_common 4138 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 262549 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 777 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
snd_pcm 57162 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi_event 4312 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
mac80211 207141 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
hp_accel 12396 0
lis3lv02d 6791 1 hp_accel
input_polldev 2334 1 lis3lv02d
led_class 1787 2 ath9k,hp_accel
option 12554 0
snd_seq 39714 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
usb_wwan 6908 1 option
psmouse 32227 0
serio_raw 3352 0
usbserial 26240 2 option,usb_wwan
cfg80211 120768 3 ath9k,ath9k_common,mac80211
snd_timer 14958 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
rfkill 12316 2 hp_wmi,cfg80211
snd_seq_device 4173 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
wmi 5970 1 hp_wmi
snd 38829 12 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_seq_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hd a_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ra wmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
k10temp 2099 0
hwmon 1033 1 k10temp
i2c_piix4 7908 0
soundcore 4271 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 5477 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp 27915 0
mac_hid 2425 0
evdev 6681 13
sg 20086 0
r8169 33687 0
fuse 52129 1

[sickness]

Does Backtrack recognize your card ? (lspci/lsusb)
What is the cards name ?

[wolfo9]

you have to physically install bt to your hard drive. when it does, a lot of hardware components are checked, and the appropriate drivers are installed then.

[gunrunr]

in order to use the airmon-ng command you have to first enable your internal card, probably by typing in

ifconfig wlan0 up

then type ifconfig wlan0 to make sure its up and working before issuing the

airmon-ng start wlan0

if airmon-ng returns a statement saying that mon0 is active your done.
you should not use vmware because it renders all integrated wifi chipsets useless for injection. You have to use USB instead.

[AnteUp]

Just incase you do end up using bt on a virtual machine, you should be aware that you still will not be able to put your internal wifi card into monitor mode. You will need to get an external USB wireless adapter.

[gchaze]

Your card works out of the box with bt. I have the same one.

lspci |grep AR9285
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

iwconfig 

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"box" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx   
          Bit Rate=48 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=36/70  Signal level=-74 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

i need a dam number to call for this ****.

That would be wlan0 in your case. For future reference "man iwconfig" "man lspci"

This card works perfectly for both monitor mode/injection and regular surfing. The "Tx-Power=20 dBm" (100 mW) kind of stinks, though. For more range and an out the box card you should look at an Alfa AWUS036hn usb. It will work with the vmware/virtualbox images too.

Works with wicd, too.

service wicd start

wicd-curses

hit P to set your preferences and enter interface name (wlan0)
F10 to save
R to refresh scan
arrow down to your net
-> to configure F10 to save
<enter> to join

Works from the console, no x needed.

Good Luck and remember google is your friend.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=AR9285+backtrack&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a

The little bar at the top of the page works too.