upgrading the kernel in Backtrack 3

[kerrjar at gmail.com (Aaron Moss)]

Well, I have a Broadcom 4311 wireless chipset that I'm trying to get to work
for packet injection...currently, (supposedly) the bcm43xx drivers are
supposed to work, but there have been people who have been able to get this
to work...apparently I'm not one of them, as I can't even get the drivers to
get onto my WPA encrypted router, which has a key that I'm trying to break
to see how strong it really is...I know for a fact you won't find it in any
dictionary file, but I wanted to see if it would actually work if I put the
key in the dictionary file and see how long it would take to break it.
Nonetheless, I'm still stuck just trying to get this thing to associate to
my router, let alone try to get to the WPA. Go figure. Thanks for the
advice...I think I'm just going to try to eventually get a different card
for this thing...I can't see any reason in putting in a bunch of time for
something such as this, especially when I REALLY don't have the time for it.
Heh. Thanks again!


On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Joshua Wright <jwright at hasborg.com> wrote:

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> Nick Baronian wrote:
> > I don't have any experience modifying the backtrack kernel but wouldn't
> > recommend it since the guys at remote-exploit took a lot of great care
> > tweaking the kernel just right to work with so many modules and patches.
> > Upgrading it will likely cause a ton of things not to work and you will
> > probably spend hours correcting/duplicating their settings but more power
> to
> > you if you do decide to do it.
>
> I concur.
>
> > I can't say for certain that this is the correct way to upgrade the
>
> Not only are all these steps needed, but you'll have to build a new
> initrd environment with custom kernel patches for software that isn't
> actively maintained or synchronized.  I had a kernel upgrade working at
> one point but it was many, many hours of work.
>
> Is there a reason you need to upgrade the kernel?  Is there a driver you
> need support for that wasn't introduced until recent kernels?
>
> - -Josh
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