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:
ifconfig: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
Please let me know if you need any additional information. Thank you for all your help.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)
- Sami


