hi i dont think ive posted here before
im running bt3 (final), my wireless card is a linksys wusb54gc (rausb0)
the information i am getting is from a shell using commands iwconfig and ifconfig. i am also using wireless assistant 0.5.7 and kwifimanager.
the problem started when i was fiddling about trying to ad an external antenna. i got soldering, connected up and got no signal. which i did have before, but which i mite not of had because i was fiddling with commands (that i dont yet know too much about).
i have since had a successful attempt at broadening my wireless network with another wireless card to which i have a good signal.
now i have connected it back up to have another bash and searching around i found this on the backtrack website
Linksys WUSB54GC
* Driver : RT73
* Chipset : Ralink Technology, Corp. 802.11b/g WiFi
* Notice 1: The interface is named rausb0, not eth0 or ath0 etc.
* Notice 2: Built-in [BackTrack] Driver does not support fragmentation attack; however, the following driver does:
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1.tar.bz2
Needs activation before use
bt ~ # ifconfig rausb0 up
bt ~ # iwconfig rausb0 mode monitor
Everything works out of the BT3 box
which has now brought it back to life but the signal level is well ill show you.
with the commands (ifconfig iwconfig)
iwconfig
rausb0 RT73 WLAN ESSID:“” Nickname:“”
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level:-121 dBm Noise level:-115 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig
rausb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:6B:9F:AD:22
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8782 (8.5 KiB) TX bytes:152448 (148.8 KiB)
this makes me think that i havent completely knakerd the hardware up which i thought before. because it seems to be working, but the signal level is lower than the noise level.
i am also running another network adapter (ath0)
any help would be appreciated