Jasager and BackTrack

February 7th, 2010

The beautiful part of using Jasager as opposed to airbase-ng for KARMA, is that by running karma as its own seperate module, we can keep the clutter out of BackTrack. So all the dhcp and karma stuff is taken care by Jasager running on fon, while BT can freely be used for sslstrip, hamster, middler [...]

Tethering your phone to BackTrack

February 7th, 2010

While on the go, being able to tether internet from your phone to your computer is a fantastic way to stay online. There are many programs to do that in windows, but it is not quite obvious while using BackTrack 4. Here is how you do it. Modprobe the modules by issuing these commands: modprobe [...]

Thinkpad Battery controls on Backtrack

February 7th, 2010

Thinkpad’s smapi needs to be installed and configured to control battery charge thresholds in order maintain good battery life. Here are the things that need to done on BackTrack 4 to set this up Download tp_smapi from sourceforge tar it and install it tar xzvf tp_smapi-0.40.tgz cd tp_smapi-0.40 make make install Verify the installation by [...]

Scrolling with Thinkpad’s Trackpoint in BackTrack

February 7th, 2010

One of the beautiful features of a Thinkpad : Scrolling using middle button and trackpoint, is missing out of the box on BackTrack 4. Here is how you enable it. Based on Ubuntu bug 282387 , you need to patch xserver-xorg add source repos for the /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid [...]

 
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