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Hello Everybody...i'm completely new to linux, i was tryin to use Backtrack 4 on my Toshiba Satellite A665 laptop device using its built in wireless network card, but the problem is that when i enter the command "airmon-ng start wlan0" to start the monitor mode it says "Intel 4965/5xxx iwlagn - [phy0]SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory"
"monitor mode enabled on mon0"
and when typing the command "airodump-ng mon0" it also says no such file or directory....
plz help..what is the problem there?
NB: wireless card is Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6250 AGN
At first I thought you can go with downloading the driver and then doing modprobe driver_name (driver that need to be installed) then I realized you are working Backtrack 4 and am not sure if modprobe will work on that. And yes there is one more important thing that you shouldn't miss which is your kernel support for WiFi.
You have to check whether your kernel is configured for WiFi or not.
First check which kernel you are using by typing uname -a. Also check which architecture it is whether i386 or x86_64
Once done with the above step navigate to boot directory and see if you find any config files which says something like config-kernel_version (kernel_version will be output of uname -a)
Type the following command to read that file and see if it says something about WiFi under networking section:
less config-kernel_version
Lets see how it goes. I have never worked on Backtrack 4 :-( but it worth giving a try to find out some information about kernel configuration related to WiFi.
Last edited by T3RM1NVT0R; 04-24-2011 at 02:59 PM.
Hello Everybody...i'm completely new to linux, i was tryin to use Backtrack 4
If you're completely new to Linux, how about a more friendly distro like Ubuntu or Mint. Backtrack is about the least newbie-friendly distro out there.
Hyou are working Backtrack 4 and am not sure if modprobe will work on that.
Backtrack 4 is based on Ubuntu, it should work. Thinking about that, I never saw a distro with module loading disabled in the kernel by default.
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You have to check whether your kernel is configured for WiFi or not.
Backtrack is a distro that is specialized towards security and penetration testing. A penetration testing distribution without support for wireless networking would be rather pointless.
Backtrack 4 is based on Ubuntu, it should work. Thinking about that, I never saw a distro with module loading disabled in the kernel by default.
Yup you are right just checked modprobe on my Linux Mint and it works. Yup standard kernel never by default disable module loading. Sorry I think I was on a different track when I said that. What I mean was is to enable that option incase planning to create a custom kernel.
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Backtrack is a distro that is specialized towards security and penetration testing. A penetration testing distribution without support for wireless networking would be rather pointless.
Yup checked on their website again and found which I missed last time. :-)
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