if there are no clients on the network, my choice of attack would either be the --chopchop or the --fragment to get the data necessary for packetforge to build a custom ARP packet.

You could then...

MOD EDIT: Religious material removed.

A simple bit of googling on BSSID & SSID produced a link to mpirical com:

Read what it says about Infrastructure networks :p

Thanks for putting this in the right section pureh@te, I wasn't sure of the right place for it

I have to agree 100% with Eric Raymond, his five characteristics of a hacker sound spot on.

Ok , I know this post is likely to ruffle some feathers, not perhaps a good idea especially with me being the new gal on the block but I have to get some thing off my chest. :eek:

Will people...

I came across this rather nicely presented tut on the basics of using Libpcap for writing your own sniffing apps

hxxp://reactor-core.org/libpcap-tutorial.html

If any of you fancy learning more...

I'd like to add the Acer Travel Mate 2356 XM to the HCL list if I may

It runs Backtrack 2.0 Final like a dream, Kismet runs fine, startx has no glitches.

I mention these points as I see from...

As phoenix said it would probably help if you could tell us how far it reaches before you notice the "hang"

Does it actually reach the point where "System Halted" appears on screen ?

Hello every one

Im Steph F , have been here a short while only at the forums but not really a newbie

Figured I should stop, look & listen first before destealthing.

Some very good and useful...