Backtrack 3 Compatible With Broadcom?

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Backtrack 3 Compatible With Broadcom?

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin in Answers

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I am trying to use backtrack to get a secured network password. When I’m inside Backtrack already, i go to wireless assistant and it says: NO USABLE WIRELESS DEVICES FOUND. When i open the window i type airmon-ng to see my interface and it says interface but nothing appears for interface. I check in the device manager and i have a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN. What can i do?

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One Response to “Backtrack 3 Compatible With Broadcom?”

trueshad

02. Sep, 2009

Did you try starting up the interface in the terminal? I can’t remember really, but the command is something like ifconfig NIC up, where NIC is the interface you’re trying to use. It would be something like eth0, eth1, or something, I don’t remember the wireless names. You can view cards by just typing in ifconfig. There is another command iwconfig, but I think that is for configuring WiFi with the command line.
Usually the wireless indicator lights will come on when the card turns up, put that would depend on how the hardware is configured on your laptop.
Broadcom used to not work with linux, but they added support over a year ago. I guess it could depend on the exact broadcom chip being used, but it was over a year ago when my old laptop first got support.
Hope this helps

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