Hey everyone, I'm new to Backtrack and I used airmon-ng perfectly fine on my laptop from a live CD. However once I installed BT5 to my HD, airmon-ng just sits there and hangs and does not display my wireless card. It changed my wlan0 to phy0 perfectly fine with the live CD. I don't understand what the difference it. I've pasted my "iwconfig" below as well as my "ifconfig"
iwconfig:
Code:
root@bt:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmx0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"CASS-5G"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: 00:26:F2:F1:4A:85
Bit Rate=270 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=57/70 Signal level=-53 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2321 Invalid misc:662 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig:
Code:
root@bt:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:b9:f4:71:17
UP 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)
Interrupt:46 Base address:0xe000
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:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17297 (17.2 KB) TX bytes:17297 (17.2 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:15:2f:0e:30
inet addr:192.168.1.55 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:15ff:fe2f:e30/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5158354 (5.1 MB) TX bytes:581229 (581.2 KB)
Please let me know if you need any additional information. Thank you for all your help.
- Sami