Backtrack 5 Wireless Help?

Question

Hey, I have a MacBook Pro 9,2 dual booted with Windows 7 64-bit. Under windows, i have virtualbox with the guest extensions running for Backtrack 5 r3. Also, I have an SMC2862W-G that I got working under windows but now I want to get it running under backtrack. I'm new to linux so I don't really know where to start. I've already done apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and msfupdate. Now, I don't know how to install the wireless card. I believe the chipset is either ISL8336 or ISL8337. I've also heard that I need to add filters under virtualbox? I've tried all this and when I go to connect to the device in backtrack, it says "this device is busy". Can anyone tell me exactly how to do this (step by step)? I'm pentesting MY network to check for vulnerability. Thanks!

Answer 1

I tend to agree, the adapter may not be the best choice. Also, linking VB wifi adapters to one under Win that may be in use, just complicated it even more.



Instead of running Virtualbox, I would suggest installing BT5 on a bootable USB drive (8GB will do). I used "unetbootin" to install the BT5 ISO image on a USB stick. You then boot the USB stick and run BT5 off the USB drive. A bit slow in loading, but most of BT5 runs in memory anyway, so once loaded it runs fine. Only issue with USB drive is that you are booting an ISO image, and cannot save files easily back to it (but you can save files to any existing HDD partition that Linux can read)

That gives direct access to any wifi adapter without any other OS in the way. When done, just reboot back to OSX or Win. I found that the most reliable way to get to any wifi adapter.

Answer 2

It seems to be a prism54 device.

As that is a leetle bit more complicated, I would point you to this page: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54

It is explained step by step.

Backtrack seems to use the newer SoftMAC driver, although I cannot verify this as I do not have a system ready atm. Also no SMC wifi device.



But - to use monitor mode the VM has to have direct access to the wireless interface card. The drivers will work only then. VMWare and Virtualbox connect to wifi cards via a virtual network (driver), so there is no direct access.

This is why most wardrivers use USB wifi adaptors like the ALFA AWUS-xxxx USB cards because they are connected directly and solely to the VM.



In conclusion I think the latter is your problem and you cannot use the integrated wifi adaptor for Backtrack unless there is a way to circumvent the virtual network connectors in Vbox. ALFA wifi devices are around €30, so for easy wardriving, more power(!) and easy VM access I would recommend getting one.

Answer 3

back down is a specialized Linux distro for looking out Linux Programming ( via this I anticipate you advise Bash) then any linux distro will do. Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora OR would desire to you dont choose the sudo difficulty use dogs linux frugal set up as that runs in root.

Answer 4

Well

You can get for free VirtualBox here http://bit.ly/YRXMGP



It is the best solution if you need to run different operative system on your computer.

It works like a charm.

Bye