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    Kismac on 17' Alu MBP

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by 2-$73P T0M?, Oct 26, 2008.

  1. 2-$73P T0M™

    2-$73P T0M™ Notebook Enthusiast

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    Can't ever get it to work, I use the right Airport or so I do believe and I either get nothing or an error message. Any help or suggestions?
     
    2-$73P T0M™, Oct 26, 2008
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  2. sulkorp

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    I haven't checked to see if theres an updated version, but the one that I did have that worked, worked in tiger.

    After I upgraded to leopard, it didn't seem to work anymore. Not sure if I needed to get a new version, but iirc they didn't release a new one for a while.
     
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    I'm pretty sure it doesn't work in leopard.
     
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    It also didn't want to work with certain cards either.

    You may want to try setting up Bootcamp with Backtrack 3.
     
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    I don't have any windows disks the only computer running windows in this house is my mom's desktop my younger sister has a mac, I have a mac and there are no install disks for windows laying around. I had bootcamp set up but took it off. Any other programs you know of that do what kismac do for macs?
     
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    Backtrack is a linux distro. It will do what I'm assuming you want to do, and you can run it via bootcamp.

    Short of that though, I don't have a wireless card in my Mac Pro, so I can't test out the other things that might work in Mac OS X.
     
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  7. 2-$73P T0M™

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    You don't have a wireless card? It comes with an airport in it though did you remove it or special order it? And how would I go about executing using this backtrack?

    EDIT: Misread haha my mistake on that wifi card. Other question still stands.
     
    2-$73P T0M™, Oct 27, 2008
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  8. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    You just got through your standard boot camp setup, but stick a BackTrack disk in instead of a Windows disk.
     
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    And where would I get backtrack like best deal?
     
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    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    So I'd have to burn it to a DVD and then install running bootcamp instead of using a windows install disk?
     
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  12. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    Spot on. Remember to burn the file as an image.
     
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  13. 2-$73P T0M™

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    Okay so 1st DL back track, 2nd burn backtrack to DVD as Image file, 3rd run bootcamp and when asked for windows install disk insert disk with backtrack on it.
     
    2-$73P T0M™, Oct 27, 2008
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