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Wireless cards are tough to set up. Look up how to use ndiswrapper to use the windows drivers. This is the quickest and easiest way to set it up.
There is an application called ceni that might help. Download the rpm or deb or whatever Backtrack uses on another PC and set up the app on your laptop.
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might have to troubleshoot the drivers to make it compatible
what wireless card is it?
boot the live cd in a cmd shell type “iwconfig”
does the wireless card show up there.. might read wifi0 / wlan0 but not the eth0 or the local one
just going into the k menu
select internet and then wireless assistant, can you use your wireless then?
just a pointer backtrack 3 is a live security pentesting suite which basically means its full of tools to test computer and network security
as an operating system its likely to not fulfill your needs as you say your switching from windows
just explore with the live cd for now and maybe have a look at dual-boot to really get the experience
in my opinion if your moving from windows xp i would aim for ubuntu 9.04 instead of backtrack
email me if you have any other questions about backtrack 3, i would be more than happy to answer them for you
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Um, why are you using an offensive security testing distro? It is designed for checking security systems etc., not as a general operating system.
Linux distributions designed for desktop use (which will be much easier to use, and will be better at recognising stuff) include:
Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/
OpenSUSE http://www.opensuse.org/en/
Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/
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Get the model of your integrated wireless card and find out if there is a Linux driver for it (but make sure its for the right Linux OS). Try device manager to get the make/model, then go to the company’s website for a Linux driver (Or google
). If all else fails stay on windows, use a Ethernet cable or get and external card. Your reasoning is probably right anyway is your running the OS off of a CD/DVD.
Cheers, Nick
PS Try manually turning on the card before doing any of this because i had to do that when i was running FC5 (Fedora Core 5)
8 Years of all around linux/windows/computer building/dumb A** computer experience
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