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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
EDIT: I found out that my specific version of the card has the Atheros chip set
Last edited by Bullseye727; 09-30-2006 at 01:27 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?
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"
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
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.
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