ok so i am unable to find wlan0
when i do iwconfig i get:

lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions



i have already tried:
ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5(my driver)
modprobe -r ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5: driver installed
device ..... present...
modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Errroe inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.21.5 /misc/ndiswrapper.ko):
Invalid module format

when i do dmesg i get a bunch of BS then:
ndiswrapper: version magic '2.6.21.5 SMP mod_unload PENTIUMIII ' should be '2.6.21.5 SMP mod_unload 486'

what could be my problem guys?

Post lspci and by the way what distro?

im kind of a noobie to linux im using Back Track 3 HDD install
i didnt know where that would fit in so i put it here...ill post the lspci next i gotta switch OS's

Hi, and welcome to LQ.
To make it easier all that is needed is the infor for your wireless card so as root;
Should do it.

ok well i got a few things
since last nite i rebooted and found out some things
1. lspci came up with:
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)
07:05.0

2.My kwlan was up but my wireless card's alias was not wlan0 it was eth1
when i went to configure it i got this error:

Kwlan was unable to Configure wlan interface using iwconfig
This may be caused by system misconfiguration e.g. absence of the utility called or incorrect parameters passed.
Please check this and try again

3. Since i saw that kwlan was up i decided to do iwconfig again resulting in all this:

bt ~ # iwconfig

lo
no wireless extensions.
eth0
no wireless extensions.

eth1
IEEE 802.11b/g
ESSIDff/any
Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
Mode:Managed
Frequency=2.472 GHz
Access Point: Invalid
RTS thrff
Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality=0/100
Signal level=-256 dBm
Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0
Rx invalid crypt:0
Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0
Invalid misc:0
Missed beacon:0


bt ~ # ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device

see if you guys can make sense of this
thanks a bunch
-TJ

You may have more success looking at the backtrack website and forums. Slackware is different and in particular doesn't recommend using KDE to configure networks - BackTrack may be otherwise.

When you run lsmod is bcm43xx loaded?
Post uname -a if have not already.

Here is the site for b43;
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/PCI
If you want to use ndiswrapper something like this;
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...te=1&p=3304332

comprookie:
[dmesg | grep ndis] gives me an error that says something like:
"is smp PENTIUMIII should be smp 486"
i lost the data in the files i made cause windows is gay so im doing it be memory

another thing is that wpa supplicant gives me an error saying that it is not configured right or something

ok so heres everything:


bt ~ # dmesg | grep ndis
ndiswrapper: version magic '2.6.21.5 SMP mod_unload PENTIUMIII ' should be '2.6.21.5 SMP mod_unload 486 '



bt ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 32768 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49872 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10508 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42656 1
snd_mixer_oss 17920 2 snd_pcm_oss
pcmcia 35244 0
pcmcia_core 36628 1 pcmcia
fuse 41876 2
serio_raw 9220 0
sdhci 18828 0
mmc_core 25988 1 sdhci
forcedeth 47240 0
snd_hda_intel 20248 2
snd_hda_codec 211712 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 71428 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 46692 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 9824 3 snd
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_nforce2 8832 0
ata_generic 9220 0
pata_amd 14092 0
k8temp 8320 0
hwmon 6404 1 k8temp
sg 30364 0
shpchp 33300 0
evdev 12032 5



bt ~ # uname -a
Linux bt 2.6.21.5 #4 SMP Thu Apr 10 04:23:56 GMT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


and now my eth1 does not show up!! this is getting really upsetting

Your going to be fighting a losing battle with Back Track. Try something like Mepis or Ubuntu and see if you can get the wireless to work, then install any other tools you want, whatever the reason you wanted back track from the start.

ok i was thinking of that
i have a copy of ubuntu couldnt i just mount BT into that using VMware? so i can get the tools from it?

one last thing ill bug you for...i have a 4 gig linux ext3 partition which BT is on now...will that be big enough for Ubuntu?

No, look on the bottom of the page;
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatI...desktopedition

Why would you want to use the tools from the BT cd, You should be able to install them with the package manager of whatever distro you install, for Ubuntu it is apt and one of the GUI's for apt is Synaptic;
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/simple-pac...in-ubuntu.html

ok thanks im installing ubuntu now
i might be back depending on how things go
thanks
-TJ