Awesome bofh28!! I presented a UEFI hypervisor at Black Hat several years ago. I'm going to have to dust that work off and play with a BT5 version.

Check your settings in VMWare. Try "Custom: specific virtual network" VMnet0 (auto-bridging). Click "Edit virtual machine settings" and then click the "Options" tab. Scroll down and click on...

Try rmmod <whateveryourdrivernameis> example: rmmod iwlagn

Disable it in BIOS.

Yes, I could attempt to explain, but by doing so would deprive you a perfect opportunity to learn. I'd suggest exploring the partitions and having a look around (hint, where you find Grub is where...

16GB is the recommended minimum thumb drive size for BT5 persistence.

Okay.... type: rfkill unblock 0

At shell command prompt type: rfkill list

And tell us what it reports.

Why use -c 1 when one pass is the default. If you want just one pass, don't use the -c option. I'm not sure that's the source of your problem, but you don't need the -c option in the default...

The bssids are there. Check your output again. The essids are blank, but the bssids are shown.

Regarding the high channel numbers, they are special licensed channels in the US (not sure about...

It appears to be a driver issue. Make sure you have the proper drivers for your network adapter installed.

EDIT:

at command prompt type "rfkill list" and tell us what it says.

From GUI Try:
Services -> Network -> Start Network
then
Internet -> Wicd Network Manager

I have a silly question and in no way is it intended to insult, but did you make your installation persistent? You can use these persistence instructions. As you will see, they indicate that while...

parrotface - you may want to try a 16gb card.

Just as an experiment, try one of the gnome images. I tried KDE many, many times on SDHC card and had absolutely no luck until I tried gmone.

I'm gui flavor agnostic and don't care if it's gnome...

I got BT5 x64 Gnome working on a 32Gb SDHC card (yes, overkill, I know). I had to try a couple of times with Unetbootin but it finally took and did a HD install from there. You might want to try...

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I've been planning on attending DerbyCon ever since it's announcment last year and had decided to avoid the "Shmoocon ticketing...

VERY nice tip r083r7! I had not heard of that utility before. Thanks.

If you want a persistend bootable thumb drive (meaning any work or files you create will be saved between sessions), then you should follow these instructions.

alex - google JTR (John the Ripper) and check out this guide. Good luck.

I spent the weekend at Shmoocon in Washington, DC and you would be impressed by the number of BT terminals I saw at the Hack Fortress competition .... it brought a tear to my eye. I didn't see any...

Hey guys, check this out: EC2 GPU Instances on Amazon.

roonie - I highly recommend the course. It's self-paced, rigorous, but self-paced. You won't regret it.

I refuse to be social engineered into answering this survey... :D The survey OP could gain a lot of insight into my MO if I answer.....

Did you install KDE4 on top of your BT??? (be honest).