2010-09-12 12:32:42

by Simon Baker

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Subject: wireless problem

hi,just wondering if you can help me with a problem ive been having
when running the backtrack 3 program.i have windows 7 on my hp
pavillion laptop and my built-in wifi works fine but when i boot
backtrack it wont work.i looked in my hp wireless assistant and it
says i have 4 network adapter problems.could this be anything to do
with it? ive tried to update the drivers which it says to do but for
some reason it cant update them so im in limbo when it comes to fixing
the adapter issues


2010-09-12 17:38:00

by Gábor Stefanik

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Subject: Re: wireless problem

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Simon Baker
<[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,just wondering if you can help me with a problem ive been having
> when running the backtrack 3 program.i have windows 7 on my hp
> pavillion laptop and my built-in wifi works fine but when i boot
> backtrack it wont work.i looked in my hp wireless assistant and it
> says i have 4 network adapter problems.could this be anything to do
> with it? ive tried to update the drivers which it says to do but for
> some reason it cant update them so im in limbo when it comes to fixing
> the adapter issues
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BackTrack 3 is very old (has 2.6.21 kernel, no longer
supported/maintained). Please test with BackTrack 4.

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