Load drivers
 

I want to load a driver for my network card. I know it is madwifi-ng, but I don't know the command to load the actual driver.

Thanks in advance,
- Will

Use the command ' /sbin/modprobe ath_pci '

Brian

I'll try that

Thanks for the quick reply

I didn't get an error, but it didn't work. Perhaps I need to turn it on? If so, how would I do that? I have a Dell Dimension and I have never updated the bios.

My wireless card is a Netgear PCI WG311T.

By not working, you mean it doesn't show up in ifconfig -a?

no, the driver is loaded, but the actual internet still doesn't work.

I just connected an ethernet cable to the computer and was wondering what driver I would use for that. I have the ethernet adapter integrated into my motherboard: intel chipset.

It is likely already loaded, unless you are on some archaic distro without udev. It sounds like you just need to configure it, which distro are you using?

Backtrack 2

What shows up if you run "ifconfig -a"?

EDIT:
Have you read this over yet?
http://wiki.remote-exploit.org/index...r_Network_Card

thanks. that should work by the sound of it. I don't know how i didn't find it before... I've gotta go for today.

EDIT: actually, I can stay a bit longer...

link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING NTU:16436 Metric:1

and then it just says a bunch of packet information.

when I do ifconfig eth0 up ( i also tried 1-5) it says device not found.

EDIT: I also did put the "up" in ifconfig eth0 up

Lets see info on the nic.
Post the section on the nic from this command.
/sbin/lspci -v

Brian

Here is a screenshot of the important stuff:

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/ima...c3b6c91557.png

It appears your wireless card isn't Atheros, but Marvell. Your only option to get it working is ndiswrapper and the Windows XP driver.

ok... Thanks elliot. I'll try that

But is there any way to get the ethernet working?