Starting Wireless in Backtrack

1. Checking that wireless driver is installed or not-

->iwconfig -a

This will show all the wirless extension with detailed information of wireless card.
If the driver is installed, it will show the interface name with card dtls.


2. Specific interface up-

->ifconfig eth0 up

To enable the eth0 interface because by default all the interface are disabled.
[Here eth0 corresponds to the wireless interface]

3. Connecting-

->wicd

To open the wireless manager to connect to wireless network.
Connect to specific network in wicd network manager.