BackTrack 2 not detecting WG511T

[jakeblat]

I'm running the BackTrack 2 Live CD on my Acer Aspire 5010 laptop, however my Netgear WG511T is not detected on startup or if the card is removed and re-insterted. The card is fully functional in Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04 but BackTrack 2 does not detect the PCMCIA card or any other card in the slot.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried various solutions on the forums but not had any luck.

[imported_blackfoot]

Type the following and reply with the output please

dmesg | grep PCMCIA

dmesg | grep pcmcia

ifconfig

ifconfig eth1 up

ifconfig

[purehate]

that card will come up as ath0 not eth1 it is atheros based

[jakeblat]

Here's the results from those commands:

bt ~ # dmesg | grep PCMCIA
bt ~ # dmesg | grep pcmcia
cs: pcmcia_socket0: cardbus cards are not supported.
bt ~ # ifconfig
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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

bt ~ # ifconfig eth1 up
bt ~ # ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:CE:13E:C6
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:4 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:4 Base address:0x8000

I also tried ath0 but got this:

bt ~ # ifconfig ath0 up
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

I've looked around the forums and other people seem to be having similar problems with BT2 but not with BT1, is there any reason the BT2 would not recognise my pcmcia slot?

[Paton]

try a Generl iwconfig and a ifconfig. See if your cards got a sneaky name to it.

[jakeblat]

Got it working now!

The solutions was to use the following boot options: "bt irqpoll acpi=off".

[ripdog99]

Hey, I just so happen to be having the same problem as you. I've been trying to get backtrack 2 to work with my WG511T. You said
"The solutions was to use the following boot options: "bt irqpoll acpi=off"."

How would I do this? Put this into a command window or the initial startup screen to load the visual interface?
Any help would be AWESOME!

[jakeblat]

You put this in the initial startup screen where is says

ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10 Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvin
boot:

Using this command does mean that some other devices are not detected, in my case the battery is not automatically detected.

[gt5401d]

I have acer aspire too, had exact same problem, works in windows, not in linux, worked fine this way, wonder what causes it?

[samsung]

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