Backtrack 5 r3 Trouble connecting to the internet with TP-link TL-WN722N USB card.
Hi, I am new to this forum and to linux, so if I post with bad etiquette or anything, I apologize.
Alright, here is my problem. I am running Backtrack 5 r3 installed on my hdd (not partitioned; this hard drive only has BT on it) with a TP-link TL-WN722N USB wireless card. I know that Backtrack detects my device because it shows up as 'Atheros AR9271' when I run lsusb. However, when I open wicd, it shows that there are no networks available, and when I run iwconfig I get: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. When I run airmon-ng I get: Interface Chipset Driver but it doesn't show anything else. I have the AR9271 driver. Also, my wireless config file is empty. I am pretty sure that is part of the problem, but I think there may be more to it as well. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! |
Please add that this is BackTrack 5r3 in the title
and add that this is A full install to the hdd or a usb install , live or persistent. If persistent is it encrypted or not . or if this is a VM install other than read the bt documents i will not comment more on this . |
Thanks for the input, and I apologize for leaving out that information. I've been combing over the forums here and on the backtrack forums, but I still haven't found anything that works.
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Update:
Alright, so I learned that my problem may be that I needed to either install some drivers that I already had, or get some drivers that I didn't have an then install them. So I got the compat wireless drivers from here: http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~...ompat-drivers/ and ran Code:
tar -xf /root/compat-drivers-3.9-rc2-2-su.tar.bz2 Code:
modprobe ath9k_htc Then I rebooted, and ran service networking start, and service wicd start, but when I opened wicd there were no connections available. and when I run airmon-ng it still doesn't recognize my device. It just gives the same output I posted above when I ran it before. What am I doing wrong? |
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