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Linux does not recognize my wireless card

It was very interested to see a Backtrack videos about hacking a wireless LAN. Thats why I would like to try it by myself to hack my friends LAN. He would like to see how will I do it. But I have a problem. Backtrack 3 and 4 don't have a support of my model of a wireless card. It is Atheros AR5B91Wireless Network Adapter. My notebook is Acer 5230.
Thats why I can't try to connect ''without cables'' in Linux. It just doesn't recognizes my card. When I put ''iwconfig'' in the Shell I saw only ''lo'' and ''eth0'', both without connection. My friend see ''wlan0'' on his notebook HP.

What should I do: try to look after a driver or what?
Thank you.

  • vadym_mykh Mar 12, 2009

    It is integrated card. And I don't know, where to look about drivers, there aren't anyones in the Internet!

  • Jordan Breaux
    Jordan Breaux Apr 21, 2009

    i have the same problem but mine is with acer 4520 with atheros card ar5007eg i get the same error message when i run that

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