HOWTO : Back|Track 5 on Lenovo ThinkPad X100e

Lenovo ThinkPad X100e (Type 3508-65B) is equipped with AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU and Radeon Display card. It does not work properly on Back|Track 5.

This tutorial is going to show you how to install Back|Track 5 on the captioned hardware.

Step 1 :

Boot up the Live CD or Live USB. Select the first item. Press "Tab" key to add the following line to the end of the line displayed on the screen.

radeon.modset=0

Step 2 :

After the Live CD or Live USB is booting up, open terminal and then issue the following command.

nano /etc/default/grub

Locate :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text splash nomodeset vga=791"

Make it read as :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text splash nomodeset vga=791 radeon.modset=0"

Save and exit.

Step 3 :

update-grub
fix-splash

Step 4 :

Configure the wireless card.

HOWTO : RTL8191SE wireless card on Back|Track 4 R2

Step 5 :

Install of AMD Catalyst 11.6 Proprietary driver.

Go to AMD official site and download AMD Catalyst 11.6 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver which is released on June 15, 2011.

wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run
./ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run

** My Back|Track 5 is 64-bit so I download the 64-bit version of the driver.

Follow the instruction on the screen to install the driver. After the installation, you should reboot your system.

Before reboot your system, issue the following command :

fix-splash

Step 6 :

Install Pointing Device Settings for the TrackPoint system.

apt-get install gpointing-device-settings

Go to "System" -- "Preferences" -- "Pointing Devices".

Select "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint". Choose "Use middle button emulation" and "Use wheel emulation". Select "2" for the button.

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : RTL8191SE wireless card on Back|Track 4 R2

Lenovo ThinkPad X100e (Type 3508-65B) is equipped with AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU and Realtek RTL8191SEvB wireless LAN Controller. It is working perfectly on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. However, the wirelss card does not work on Back|Track 4 R2 (which is believed to be Ubuntu 8.04 with newer kernel). In additon, Back|Track 4 R2 is installed with Wicd as network manager.

This tutorial is going to show you how to install the r8191se_pci wireless driver on Back|Track 4 R2.

Step 1 :

Download the official Linux driver from Realtek. The current version is 0018 dated 2010-Oct-25 at the time of this writing.

Download Linux driver at RTL8191SE-VA2 section.

Step 2 :

Extract and compile the driver as well as copy the firmware the workable directory.

tar -xzvf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz

cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010

make
make install

cp -Ra ~/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010/firmware/RTL8192SE/ /lib/firmware

Step 3 :

Load the driver.

depmod -a
modprobe r8192se_pci
ifconfig wlan0 up

or, reboot the system.

Step 4 :

Go to "Menu" -- "Internet" -- "Wicd Network Manager".

Select "Preference". Add "wlan0" to "Wireless interface".

Then click the "Refresh" button. Now, you should see the Access Points in the air. Select your desired Access Point, entered password and surf the internet.

Remarks :

RTL8191SE wireless card does not support aircrack-ng's injection mode. You may consider to buy USB wireless adapter, such as TP-Link TL-WN321G, TP-Link TL-WN821N and TL-WN822N. Or, changes the RTL8192SE to Intel 5100 as they all support monitor and injection modes.

That's all! See you.