How To Install wireless driver on Backtrack3 by Vmware

[dapt1234]

Hello, I am totally new to linux, but pretty computer literate, so if someone could help me out I would appreciate it, thanks.

I have installed backtrack 3 on vmware workstation. I would like to install a TP-link TL-WN650G wireless card(atheros based - AR5005GS) onBacktrack because that it supports packet injection. Backtrack doesn't automatically recognize the device so I need to install the driver, I have done some research and found I needed to install the driver 'madwifi-old'(ieee80211 version) from here..
madwifi [Aircrack-ng]
madwifi-project.org - Trac

However I have no idea how to install them from inside backtrack, so if someone knows please let me know.
tryed 'lsmod |grep ath_pci', 'modprobe ath_pci' but nothing happened and didn't work.
thanks

[waterhead]

The instructions are on the first link that you posted:

ifconfig ath0 down
rmmod wlan_wep ath_rate_sample ath_rate_onoe ath_pci wlan ath_hal 2>/dev/null
find /lib/modules -name 'ath*'  -exec rm -v {} \; 2>/dev/null
find /lib/modules -name 'wlan*' -exec rm -v {} \; 2>/dev/null
svn checkout http://svn.madwifi-project.org/branches/madwifi-old/ madwifi-old
wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org//madwifi-old-r1417.patch
cd madwifi-old
patch -Np1 -i ../madwifi-old-r1417.patch
make KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-<insert version>
make install KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-<insert version>
depmod -ae
modprobe ath_pci

Enter each line in a terminal, one at a time.

[JosipBroz]

IIRC, VMware uses paravirtualized device drivers. So the original backtrack 3 driver won't do, you'll need a VMware-specific driver for your card -- which I bet doesn't exist and never will.

[waterhead]

Oh, thanks. I forgot about the fact that he is running it virtually.

Something like backtrack should be run live. Since it is used to examine a network, you would want to be connected to the network that you are testing.

[mhanan]

If you have the windows driver for the card (.inf file) you could try ndiswrapper.

Copy it to your root directory, open up a terminal window and cd to root.

ndiswrapper -i driver.inf
depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper
su
ifconfig