Configuring my internet in BT4 Final

**Altair Creed** · 07-05-2010

I am a newbie for this situation and generally for some advance operations in Linux. I have genuinely tried to find out the answer for this question with my own but unable to seem to get anything to work. So you know I have visited entire possible places on the internet but unable to seem to figure my problem. So hopefully someone will be able to help.

I installed BT4(final) on VMWare from an iso. I have a wireless USB adapter (Belkin N Wireless USB Dongle F5D8053 ver. 1000 Chip RT2870) and I ran lsusb command and the adapter displays as following :

ID 050d:8053 Belkin Components Ralink RT2870

I also unable to get vmware tools installed. I am not sure that if that caused the issue or not. If anyone have a hand I would appreciate it!

**Devasis** · 07-05-2010

If you are as a bignner then you need to know some basics about how to handle or how to Start Networking in Backtrack....as you have posted as the thread title .

Configuring internet in BT4 Final

It is always a big topic and it assumes as easy to so many users but the fact of such case is that we have a number of "new" users so we requires to be clear about this sort of concepts. (Note entire commands should be executed in the root session or associated with the sudo)

1. To start networking in Backtrack 4 final problem the following command.

/etc/init.d/networking start

It will attempt to start entire interfaces in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

root@bt:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

**Solomon** · 07-05-2010

If you do not have or do not need some of the interfaces then just easily remove the from this file and they will not start. If you requires to configure a static IP address, just define the variables in the /etc/network/interfaces file

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1

You will also requires to be sure that you configured a nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf

root@bt:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.0.1

**MrChris-** · 07-05-2010

If you are getting such type of message as a error then it's sure that you are doing some mistakes in the configuration of router or some of the specific steps that need to be done here with the proper manner.

With the release of Backtrack 4 final some days before, I decided to make a post on installing backtrack in VMware. There are several methods to run backtrack within a hard disk installation, a USB boot install and obviously as a live disk. My selected way of performing is with VMware so I decided to create and implement some steps in such case there is any one who would like to install in using such method.

**MrChris-** · 07-05-2010

There are few things would be covered in such steps and that includes the following described -

Creating a proper Virtual Machine for Backtrack
Installing Backtrack to harddisk inside the Virtual Machine
Getting up and running with Backtrack and a few first steps
Install VMware tools in Backtrack

The external tools that would be used to perform all this would be as follows :

Windows 7 as a host
VMware 7 workstation

This way should work on any version of VMware and as well as for any of the platform. I continued with the installation of this in the same method on a Gentoo host with VMware server. So I know its close if not the similar.

**Altair Creed** · 08-05-2010

Hello and thank you very much. According to the suggestions from you all and also I read the first post that is posted by devasis(was the primary place where I visited) but I couldn't seem to resolve my current issue that I showed to you all in my post.

And about the second thread that is posted by solomon, did not actually make sense for me . I will try to get all the contents But I will say thanks to Mr. chris , that I can figure out my causes for the error. I am trying to solve my issue...If you got some other solution then do forget to post me !!

**SalVatore** · 10-05-2010

OK Altair Creed, to get networking in a virtual machine you first require to be sure that it is ready onto the guest ( BT in your case) that it was since you displayed the result of lsusb command. Now that that is committed, you should use the secondary link above on how to start networking. Execute the following command shown below.

Code:

/etc/init.d/networking

It should start the networking services. Next would be to use one of the entitled commands in that guidelines to connect to the access point that you control.