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    Question RT5370 wireless adapter usb driver on Backtrack 5 R1

    Hello everyone!!

    As you can imagine from reading the title, I need to install the driver for a wireless adapter with the RT5370 chipset on Backtrack 5 R1..
    I already searched for a solution in the forums, and I found a thread about it (
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    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1800178&highlight=RT5370+backtrack+R1
    ), where a user of this forum explains how he/she installed this driver on Backtrack 5 R1, editing some directories in the makefile. His explanation is the following:

    i wanted to read the makefile and noticed it was not looking in the right directories for some reason and was missing Module.symvers in my /usr/src/linux when compiling the first time; i do know a few things unix so i used:

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    locate Module.symvers
    cp "dir without quotes where found" /usr/src/linux
    I tried changing the following in the makefile with after using locate to locate some of the requirements of the makefile

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    LINUX_SRC =/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
    to
    LINUX_SRC =/usr/src/linux
    and below it:

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    LINUX_SRC =/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
    to
    LINUX_SRC =/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless
    ran
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    make
    make install
    modprobe rt5370sta
    and now it works in Wicd after changing the preferences for wlan0 to Ra0 I can connect and it works
    I tried doing the same, but I don't know how to locate the requirements of the makefile..so I cant get it to work.. could someone explain to me (I'm a real newbie when it comes to Linux, but I'm willing to learn) what could I do?

    It would be great to get my new wireless adapter running..

    Thanks!

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    Re: RT5370 wireless adapter usb driver on Backtrack 5 R1

    You know that Backtrack is a toolkit designed for specific security tasks such as penetration testing, right? It's not designed to be a day-to-day operating system for typical desktop users.

    Aside from that Backtrack is built on an Ubuntu base, but it's not supported by Ubuntu per se.

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