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How to make my wireless interface appear on VMware player for backtrack5?

I searched the Internet all morning and it’s frustrating.

I installed the VMware player and backtrack5 and got everything ready for work.

I decided to make a project for hacking a WPA2 network using reaver, as shown here.

http://lifehacker.com/5873407/how-to-crack-a-wi+fi-networks-wpa-password-with-reaver

this person did not use a wireless adapter, nor did I. Therefore, I am sure that this is not necessary.

I have a wireless router and laptop (Pavillion g7) with Wi-Fi turned on and everything is going correctly.

the guest OS for the virtual machine is Linux, and my main OS is win7.

I run the "iwconfig" code on the terminal, but only l0 and eth0 are displayed, not the one I need (wlan0), as well as the wireless interface board needed for the whole hacking process.

Now, if anyone can tell me how I can get VMplayer to connect to a wireless network or at least detect it so that I can detect and get information about the wireless interface, that would be so appreciated ...

My wireless adapter for a laptop, by the way, is the Atheros Ar9485. Please help me with this, the project should be a group, but I'm solo, because there are not enough students in the class.

So any help will bring me many benefits, thanks.

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A little late, but this: VMware cannot flash your built-in WiFi card into its internal operating system (Backtrack in this case).
You will need to connect the USB USB adapter to your laptop; VMware can connect it to Backtrack just fine.

In the tutorial to which you are attached, the author is loaded from a live DVD, and not from inside VMware, therefore Bakctrack functions as a normal operating system with access to all its ports.

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There is a problem with VMware drivers that recognize this as a wireless interface. When using a wireless USB card, it will appear as an 802.3 connection, and you will not see wlan0 when you enter the iwconfig command.

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If you had wlan0 (wireless) connection before and now it is not displayed, you need to restore the network settings to default. This can help.

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