Comments on: Using Ubuntu to Crack WEP

By: ngeves

ngeves — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:12:12 +0000

My laptop “dv2000″ suddenly had a issue and was showing that wireless switch is off. but rfkill unblock all command solved it.

Thanks for the solution

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:51:36 +0000

@kyou
The comments contain links to some of the packages. It looks like some readers have provided updated links to them. Thanks. :)

By: kyou

kyou — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:44:37 +0000

in the part where it says

wget http://*******see comments for URLS*********

what URLs??

thanks in advance.

By: oggie

oggie — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:59:17 +0000

I don’t know what happened, but I figured how to fix my problem I referenced before.

I had to install rfkill:
sudo apt-get install rfkill

and then:
rfkill unblock all

And everything started working as normal again.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:09:56 +0000

@oggie

This was written for Ubuntu 6.06, not Ubuntu 10.10. Maybe there’s another file in your system that was edited? It’s hard to see what the issue for you might be, when we don’t know what the issue really is.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:01:13 +0000

@James
This was written for a much older version of Ubuntu, Dapper. This version is not for Karmic.

By: James

James — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:46:54 +0000

I’m Reading your tutorial, still working my way through it and I’m stuck on the madwifi driver part. Not the installation part but the actual NECESSITY of it. This is the second system i have Ubuntu on, the first one was karmic koala and on my new laptop has maverick. On my first laptop i had a hell of a time getting the wireless driver to work and the madwifi driver made it worse. So i have a little grudge against it lol.
So to recap do i REALLY have to replace the wireless driver if mine already works?

By: oggie

oggie — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:18:20 +0000

I tried this on an hp dv2000 laptop with it’s built in broadcom BCM4311 wireless and ubuntu 10.10 64bit. Afterwards, network manager would no longer detect any wifi networks. I tried everything to fix it.

So I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 (reformat of the drive) and the problem persists… how is that possible? Did it put the nic in some unusable state?

lwconfig shows that the mode is managed… Any ideas?

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:06:00 +0000

@kyo ono

ALWAYS back up files BEFORE editing them. ;)

I’m not a Mint user (I use Ubuntu), so have no copies of any current Mint sources.list. However, you may have some luck looking at http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3771110, where they post the following sources.list for Mint:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ julia main upstream import deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ maverick partner deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick free non-free #deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu maverick-getdeb apps #deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu maverick-getdeb games

Make sure you compare the above and the resources found at the above URL, with your existing sources.list and make corrections.

Again, ALWAYS back up files BEFORE editing them.

By: kyo ono

kyo ono — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:51:39 +0000

I modified the repository list and it doesnt work any more hahahahaha can one of you guys post its sources.list so I can change it the way it was before Im new in linux or where can i get it from? I use linux mint 10 julia