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Bullseye727 09-30-2006 12:53 PM
Wireless network card setup on Backtrack
 
I have Black track 1.0 running from live cd on a laptop. What I am trying to do is get my dlink wireless network card model number "DWL-G630" set up. I tryed the ifconfig ath0 stuff but it doesnt seem to work. I saw that the dwl-g630 was supported by the Madwifi drivers, would that make it work? and if so would I have to install Backtrack to my harddrive?

Sorry for being such a :newbie: ;)

EDIT: I found out that my specific version of the card has the Atheros chip set

Bullseye727 10-01-2006 10:17 PM
bump :confused:

Axo 10-02-2006 03:30 AM
No need to do a hardrive install to get your card working, sounds more like the module isn't loaded.

Code:
lsmod |grep ath_pci
If that returns nothing use "modprobe" to load the module.

Code:
modprobe ath_pci
Then configure your card as normal.

Good Luck.

Bullseye727 10-03-2006 09:27 AM
How would I configure it as normal? lol I have no idea how to set it up:cry:

Axo 10-03-2006 04:23 PM
Ok did you look to see if the module was loaded? Make sure its loaded before going any further.


Code:
modprobe ath_pci
iwconfig ath0 essid youressidhere
iwconfig ath0 channel yourchannelhere
iwconfig ath0 key yourhexkeyhere  ***Note if your using a ASCII sting add "s:"
iwconfig ath0 key s:yourasciikeyhere
ifconfig ath0 up
dhcpcd ath0
Hopfully that should get you started.


Good luck

Bullseye727 10-04-2006 02:23 PM
Well I tryed what you said in the last post - which does look exactly right but, when I pull up Firefox it still says page not displayed. I am using a WPA key on my network and it is ASCII so I used the "iwconfig ath0 key s:yourasciikeyhere" command with the s. Does linux only support WEP?

Axo 10-04-2006 05:39 PM
Ok you didn't mention WPA in your first post, linux supports WPA fine, after READING the Back Track forums (I dont use WPA) it looks like the wpa_supplicant has an issue with madwifi.
I'll try and help but cant guarantee it will work.

Download the wpa_supplicant module from Here and the README from
Here Save both of these to a thumb drive and boot up Back Track.

Mount the thumb drive.

Code:
mount /mnt/sda1_removable
Now insert the module
Code:
uselivemod /mnt/sda1_removable/wpasup.mo
all going well you now should have "/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"

Edit this file to suit your needs.
Code:
vi /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
With any luck that should be it.

Code:
wpa_supplicant -D madwifi -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

Quote:
The -B will let it run in the background. Then you issue:

Code:
wpa_gui
to start the GUI interface so you can scan for APs and connect.

*** IMPORTANT ***
You must ALWAYS start wpa_supplicant FIRST before running wpa_gui!

Once connected you will have to manually do:

Code:
dhcpcd ath0
to get an IP address over dhcp.
All these steps worked for me except actually connecting as I dont use WPA.

Good Luck.


Edit fixed URL's

Bullseye727 10-05-2006 06:30 AM
Thanks I'll try that out now. I have one more question, does wifi in linux run in the background similar to windows or do you configure it on a program to program basis? Thanks again for your help

Axo 10-05-2006 04:24 PM
Did it work? and yes the connection will run in the background so all programs have access to the net.

mango1122 03-05-2007 12:06 AM
hey u can load ur driver module(.mo file) by putting ur .mo file in modules folder in the iso image.

u may find ur module here www.slax.org.
navigate to modules n locae urs.

bt2 is essentially a slax distro.so u may find all the modules here

miketalion 04-21-2007 01:20 PM
Thank you Axo. thank you indeed (backtrack/ cisco 350 card
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Axo
No need to do a hardrive install to get your card working, sounds more like the module isn't loaded.

Code:
lsmod |grep ath_pci
If that returns nothing use "modprobe" to load the module.

Code:
modprobe ath_pci
Then configure your card as normal.

Good Luck.
:D :D


cisco 350 airo card works like a charm. thank you

Axo 04-22-2007 05:02 AM
Glad it helped, and welcome to LQ.

ECRocker 05-22-2007 12:18 PM
Hey Thanks. I tried to use the back track live cd last night, and couldn't figure out why it wasn't detecting any signals when I know theres one right next to me.

I tried using the gui program I found but I couldn't figure out how to get it to change channels (suspect thats the problem). I'll this stuff out when I get home.

jab1 06-04-2007 03:47 PM
will these instructions work with realtek driver version 5.158.1001.2003

sirusx69 12-24-2007 02:31 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Axo (Post 2445918)
No need to do a hardrive install to get your card working, sounds more like the module isn't loaded.

Code:
lsmod |grep ath_pci
If that returns nothing use "modprobe" to load the module.

Code:
modprobe ath_pci
Then configure your card as normal.

Good Luck.
i did this and when i went to do iwconfig ath0 it came back "ath0 No such device" what did I do wrong?

MAFIALL 03-21-2010 04:01 PM
tl-wn422g
 
hi my card is tp-link tl-wn422g usb2.0
Wireless chipset is ZyDAS ZD1211B

and Supported standards IEEE 802.11g; IEEE 802.11b; USB2.0

so i want my card to work with backtrack 4 and i dont know how to setup my wirless network card plz help

indra_best 09-07-2010 01:26 PM
Hey guys, I am trying to connect my network interface card in Backtrack 4. But i can't.
I have typed /etc/init.d/networking start but


wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.

these types of errors are comming.
Please help me.


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