Okay, so after formatting this thing multiple times this morning, here's the conclusion I've come to so far.

I now have the drive formatted with two separate FAT32 partitions. It's not hanging or...

I think I may have fixed my problem. I think it had something to do with how I formatted my drive the first time using fdisk.

I went back into a VMware running the iso, used qtparted instead, and...

Agreed, if it were just startup and shutdown, I wouldn't be concerned. As dizzy said though, it's a constant while running the OS, even just using firefox and terminal (or try doing something while...

Okay, first off, a quick thank you of appreciation to the remote exploit folks for once again doing a wonderful job. All of my hardware on a Dell Inspiron 1520 seems to be working out of the box. So...

That's awesome! Thank you.

Something I've found to be semi-useful in the past is the free web-mail service by:



They have an option in there where after you send an email from your account...

Thank you pureh@te. I was afraid that was the answer, but at least now I know. I managed to find a post from you in the BT2 forum stuff somewhere about adding a CVS repository, and I was hoping that...

Okay, I know I'm asking a noob question here, but what is the CVS Root used by the backtrack distro, or is it different for every application?

I ask because all I see for some of the bugs on the...

A little more searching on the CF and Nvidia forums garnered that there is apparently a problem with the powermizer function of some nvidia cards and compiz-fusion. The gist of it is that the...

Okay, I've searched the wiki and the forums. Thanks to a nifty command from Xploitz, I now know that BT is utilizing both of my cores, and it's reading all my memory correctly. I also saw how other...

Alright, so I've fixed the menu items for loading and unloading drivers, and I can't connect to the internet or drop my card into monitor mode and use kismet. However, I'm having a slight hiccup.
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First off, thanks to shadowkill for the tutorial and to Dr. Green for the uploaded cub3z.lzm (couldn't find the one on my liveCD.)

I didn't follow things exactly, being that I had already gotten...

I found that if I change the start menu item to just kismet and check box for run in terminal, kismet launches just fine from the menu. (Read: after editing the .conf file.)

I am having issues...

How would one go about editing the shortcut/link on the applications menu so it doesn't do that every time?

BTW, thanks for the quickfix William. If nothing else, kismet works from the command...