installing drivers

**kenny23692** · 01-16-2012

I'm running backtrack via persistent usb and I dont know how to update the wireless drivers. I currently have no internet access. I have already downloaded the updated driver on win 7 so I could I get that over to backtrack?

***jayd512*** · 01-16-2012

Hi there.

Take a look through this page: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tml#post701169
Follow the instructions, and post back here with the results.

**kenny23692** · 01-17-2012

thanks for the help. Whats in text file is a lot of information.

Code:

============ lspci ============
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 02)
	Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
	Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3b4a] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 05)
	Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
	Kernel modules: i2c-i801
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
	Kernel driver in use: atl1c
	Kernel modules: atl1c
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)

============ lsusb ============
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 064e:a216 Suyin Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro U3
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Wireless Mouse M305

============ lsmod ============
Module                  Size  Used by
sbs                     8489  0 
sbshc                   2608  1 sbs
hed                     1147  0 
acpi_cpufreq            5065  1 
mperf                    891  1 acpi_cpufreq
cpufreq_stats           3073  0 
cpufreq_powersave        634  0 
cpufreq_performance      638  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        6994  4 
freq_table              2007  3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative     7564  0 
iptable_filter           884  0 
ip_tables               9231  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               10782  2 iptable_filter,ip_tables
parport_pc             18091  0 
lp                      7036  0 
parport                24431  2 parport_pc,lp
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi     8733  1 
snd_hda_codec_conexant    24894  1 
snd_hda_intel          18438  0 
snd_hda_codec          56424  3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4642  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            33635  0 
snd_mixer_oss          12386  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                57162  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           1023  0 
snd_seq_oss            23301  0 
snd_seq_midi            3720  0 
snd_rawmidi            14559  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      4312  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                39714  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              14958  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          4173  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    38829  12 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
video                  15550  0 
rtc_cmos                7838  0 
rtc_core               11455  1 rtc_cmos
option                 12554  0 
output                  1296  1 video
rtc_lib                 1534  1 rtc_core
usb_wwan                6908  1 option
atl1c                  28459  0 
psmouse                32227  0 
usbserial              26240  2 option,usb_wwan
serio_raw               3352  0 
intel_agp              24756  1 
iTCO_wdt                8717  0 
soundcore               4271  1 snd
shpchp                 27915  0 
joydev                  7824  0 
wmi                     5970  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     1441  1 iTCO_wdt
snd_page_alloc          5477  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
agpgart                22961  1 intel_agp
rfkill                 12316  0 
evdev                   6681  9 
mac_hid                 2425  0 
aufs                  135501  1128 
squashfs               19741  1 
sg                     20086  0 
fuse                   52129  1 

============ dmesg-firmware ============

============ kernel version ============
2.6.35.8

============ ifconfig ============
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


============ iwconfig ============

**atreyu** · 01-17-2012

Originally Posted by kenny23692

I'm running backtrack via persistent usb and I dont know how to update the wireless drivers. I currently have no internet access. I have already downloaded the updated driver on win 7 so I could I get that over to backtrack?

What updated driver are you referring to? You don't want to use a windows driver in Linux (unless you're using NDISwarpper, but you probably aren't). Firmware is OS-agnostic and is another matter, but I am not sure if you need that.

According to your attached info, your wireless device is:

Code:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)

According to the Debian Wiki (which I think Backtrack is loosely based on), the driver for that is rtl819x. Look for a module by that name in your kernel's modules dir, e.g.:

Code:

find /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/|grep rtl819.*.ko$

For example, on Ubuntu 10.04, I get:

Code:

/lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/kernel/ubuntu/rtl8192se/r8192se_pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192s_usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8192_pci.ko

Try to load one that looks right, e.g.:

Code:

sudo modprobe r8192_pci

Then check your network devices again:

Code:

ip a

or

Code:

cat /proc/net/dev

or

Code:

ls -1 /sys/class/net/

**kenny23692** · 01-17-2012

I was saying i downloaded the wireless driver for linux on the windows side, How can i import that into linux?
But I tried the find command and nothing came back, so I just open up the gui and navigated through the folders. The only thing that I could find that resembles rtl8192 was in /lib/firmware-2.6.35.8/rtlwifi, which only containted rtl8192cfw.bin and rtl8172u.bin
I also went to /lib/modules/2.6.35.8/kernel/drivers/stagining all that folder contained was .img files

**atreyu** · 01-18-2012

Based upon your kernel version, I'm guessing you are not running the latest version of Backtrack, is that correct? Any possibility that you can use the latest version?

Also, have you tried the Backtrack forums? The OS is pretty specialized, so you might get more experienced folks there.

Edit: If you want to copy the driver from Windows to Linux, you should be able to mount the windows partition from within Linux (assuming Windows is on a disk locally attached to the Backtrack box).

1. get hard drive listing

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

2. find your windows partition in the list, say it is on the first disk, sda, on the 2nd partition, sda2:

Code:

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/win
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sda2 /mnt/win

**kenny23692** · 01-18-2012

That is correct, I'm using bt4 r2. I was able to mount my drive and moved over the .tar.gz file over but I'm having some problems w/ manually installing the driver.

***jayd512*** · 01-18-2012

Once you get the file over to your Linux side, try the steps on this page: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...tml#post344054
That should help get you going on that.

**wimstock** · 01-20-2012

You might try updating your kernel. Latest Linux Kernel Versions
There is better support built in the newer kernel for RTL 8188ce. I believe you can download it on a thumb drive with windows then install it on your linux system.

**kenny23692** · 01-20-2012

Originally Posted by jayd512

Once you get the file over to your Linux side, try the steps on this page:
That should help get you going on that.

I tried this steps and I think i just started more drivers to use and really dont know how to stop

Originally Posted by wimstock

You might try updating your kernel.
There is better support built in the newer kernel for RTL 8188ce. I believe you can download it on a thumb drive with windows then install it on your linux system.

Thanks Ill try this tonight.

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