alfa card in BT with VMWare

[zaidoon]

it seems like the error " 132 unknown error " disapered in BT5 using VMWare , VMWare will understand what i'm talking about

[muts]

This is a known issue in VMware. MAC80211 rto8187 drivers tend to rfkill themselves.
Use the legacy IEEE r8187 driver instead.

[ShadowMaster]

alternatively, you type the following into your console

rmmod rtl8187
rfkill block all
rfkill unblock all
modprobe rtl8187
rfkill unblock all
ifconfig wlan0 up wlan0 can be any wlan# interface

i just made this into a script, and run it when my card crashes. ive never tried the old drivers.

[fightclub]

I did the same exact thing as ShadowMaster, but in my script I put the LSB information and added it to /etc/init.d/ folder. Opened up konsole and typed this in. On my scripted I named it rtl8187 since thats the alfa chipset. Don't forget to make the script executable.

root@bt:~# update-rc.d rtl8187 defaults

Where rtl8187 is the name of the script that I made.

Now when I boot up I don't have to worry about it. I also have the script on the desktop just incase the rfkill swtich makes the card useless again. I have a youtube video which you can watch to see my script in action. I'm curemymind in youtube if you wanna search for me. I make a lot of BackTrack for dummies tutorials.