Wireless driving me crazy!

[MAXatax]

I can't get my w-usb's to work. I've tried nearly everything.

I actually got it working once.. I opened wicd and saw the wireless, then selected it. I was connected and it started working. I reboot (dumb idea i guess) and it ****ing disappears.

Nothing i do can even get the wlan0 available.

lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 07b8:6001 AboCom Systems Inc 802.11bg
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lshw -C network:
only shows eth0

iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

This is really making me go crazy please help me. I'm new to linux and backtrack and I am slowly learning. However this is starting to get to me. I know someone can help me. This also seems to be a pretty regular problem.

also:
right before connecting to the internet, iwconfig did produce results.. it said there was a driver for the w-usb.

there was an error with the dbus or something) the next time I used wicd

THANKS!!!!

[Corbachev]

It really sux to be a newbie...the system is designed for us to remain newbies...might have something to do with the distance or position ratio to the router...but hey, wild guess...I'mma squirrel tryin' to get a nut too!

[scottm99]

First thing I'd do is check your wireless card & chipset against the hardware compatibility list (the wiki & the HCL forum here). Also, are you running the 32-bit, or 64-bit version of BT5? Next, are you running BT5 in a virtual machine?

[snafu777]

It really sux to be a newbie...the system is designed for us to remain newbies...

What system do you refer to? The Internet is abound with knowledge if you just learn how to pull from it. The problem is that most people are just too lazy to figure out stuff on their own. I'll give you an example.

Two nights ago I was working on a script of mine and I had no Internet at the time. Instead of wanting to be spoonfed or even google it, I decided to have a go at it myself. For a certain part of the script I wanted it to have built-in sanitization in such that if the user were to enter in a NIC that did not exist by a slip of a key (i.e. wlam0 -vs- wlan0), the script would consult a list of NICs on the system at the time of variable entry. It literally took me a good hour to figure out how to grep out and awk stuff so that my idea would work. I had nobody to consult but myself. After I figured it out, I felt such elation and pride. If I had not figured it out on my own, what would I have gained? A solution perhaps, but not true experience with "coding" (No, bash is not coding, but it is a highly recommended place to start learning how these little boxes work).

ifconfig -s | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v Iface > dev_list
echo "Choose NIC"
read nic_
grep -i $nic_ dev_list > /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
 	echo "Invalid NIC"
        NIC_choice--
fi

Just my two cents.

[Antar]

Hey,

I've got a similar problem:
Runing Backtrack 5 from USB Flash.
Wireless card: BCM94313HMGB
It worked perfect on Ubuntu 11 (Also USB Flash)

On IWconfig it says
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Any ideas?

[YnteG]

As I know that BT5 doesn't have neither wireless drivers nor ndiswrapper installation tool.
Maybe this link would help u guyz out: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/interne...iswrapper.html

[Burago]

Same problem here...Runing bt5 64 on VM...wireless card ralink RT5390
ifconfig shows only eth0.....
airmon-ng start eth0 shows:
Found 1 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID Name
1623 dhclient3
help?

[legitnick]

Same problem here...Runing bt5 64 on VM...wireless card ralink RT5390
ifconfig shows only eth0.....
airmon-ng start eth0 shows:
Found 1 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID Name
1623 dhclient3
help?

I found this on the ubuntu forums but you may need to patch the drivers.

Go here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/f...ver%3Awireless

Download all the patches except the x64_86 patch (I assume you have installed a 32-bit system). Move them to your 2010_1216_RT5390_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.4_WiFiBTCombo_DPO folder. Now, in a terminal, do:
Code:

patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-config.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-convert-devicename-to-wlanX.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-reduce_debug_output.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-remove-potential-conflicts-with-rt2860sta.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-return_nonvoid_function.patch 
patch -p0 < rt5390sta-2.4.0.4-WPA-mixed.patch 
sudo su 
cp RT2860STA.dat RT5390STA.dat
mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT5390STA
cp RT5390STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT5390STA
make clean
make
make install
modprobe rt5390sta
exit

Post back any errors or if you get stuck.

Here is a link to the thread.

If you still can't put the card into monitor mode try using this driver.