the error stopping air from loading is that it simply cannot find it's images. not sure what the real fix should be, but you can edit /usr/bin/air and change:


my...

when i have a hard drive to recover i use dd_rescue, it will take forever but it gets the job done.

i run a couple pfsense boxes on my home network and really like it as well.

ding fries are done!!!!

i'll kick in a vote for this one :)

glad to be of service :)

i've been sidetracked for quite a while now, i'll see what i can do about getting back to posting the HAL config changes i made too. really helps with usability of the MBP.

man mount

cat /etc/fstab

describe different.

i haven't installed gentoo in years ...

now i want again (i like OCD behavior)

i've been messing around with a lot of the personalizations to bt4 you've mentioned and others. i started by...

methinks you should:

man lilo.conf

i don't have a great detailed explanation (yet) but if you have run into this problem and would like a quick fix you can do this when you boot to the console..



root@bt:~# cd /etc/alternatives/...

i'm looking through the packages now to find which ones are causing issues and see what i can come up with for a fix.

apt-get update will not break anything, all it does is update the apt cache...

i do, but i's 3:30 AM here and i should get to bed :P

i'll take a look at this in the morning and post what i find :)

just so people aren't confused reading this thread, synaptics is enabled and loaded out of the box with bt4, the only thing you'll have to do is tweak some of the settings for it to enable two finger...

umm, to right click on my macbook pro i use the touchpad, hold two fingers down and click the button. i'm putting together part three for this now which enables tap to click, then all you need to do...

the configuration process has been taken over by HAL.


hxxp w w w .glokal.eu/content/hal-takes-over-xorg-now-less-restarting

perhaps this will help

hxxps...

he has not tried to manually compile and install. i told him to try that next, then he went to bed :P

what we did try went something like this (this is from memory so i may miss a step or two)
...

he has installed ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and ndiswrapper-common and walked we walked through a few tutorials (the sudo is probably from copy and paste) and all goes well till he tries to modprobe...

it turns out that this laptop has a Broadcom card, to be specific it has:


root@bt:/# lspci -nn | grep Broadcom
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n...

i know i know, macs aren't real popular here, but i just bought my first mac a few months ago and now i love my macbook pro. and i got it cheap! my system is setup to triple boot osx, ubuntu, and...

i've gotten the linux_sta driver to compile and load in bt4 on my macbook pro. i only see the unknown symbol error you see when i haven't run


modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip

before modprobing...

thanks, that worked :)

It may be helpful to rename this entire thread to "BackTrack 2 Final on a Clevo D900K laptop". I dont think i have rights to do so...

looking at dmesg output i found this:



so i added...

hi all,

i just registered so i am stuck here for now. this probably belongs in the live cd support section though.

i am trying to get backtrack running on my laptop, first as a live cd, then...