Problem detecting my WiFi

musik4u66 · 11-12-2007, 09:56 AM

When I enter the command lspci into backtrack 2.0 no imformation about my wireless card is in there. I have a Belkin 2.0 card. also when I enter iwconfig it says no wireless extension. Why is it not reading my card at all and what can I do?

farslayer · 11-12-2007, 11:11 AM

Belkin 2.0 is not very descriptive for your wireless card.. do you have more details ? an exact model number and hardware revision ?

is this a desktop or a laptop ? if it's a laptop the correct command would probably be lspcmcia rather than lspci to determine the Wireless card information. or if it's a USB wireless adapter the command would be lsusb

musik4u66 · 11-12-2007, 11:30 AM

My wireless card is a USB wireless adapter i Did what you said and put lsusb and here is what I got

Bus 2 device l: ID: 0000:0000
Bus 1 device 1: ID: 0000:0000

also when i put in iwconfig it says

lo no wirless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions.

farslayer · 11-12-2007, 09:55 PM

there are no devices listed there...

Code:

default@debianetch:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 008: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 09ae:1007 Tripp Lite
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

are their any USB modules loaded ?

Code:

default@debianetch:~$ lsmod | grep usb
usbhid                 37248  1
usb_storage            71840  1
scsi_mod              124168  5 sg,sbp2,usb_storage,sd_mod,libata
ide_core              110504  4 usb_storage,ide_cd,generic,piix
usbcore               112644  6 usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd