Crap, found the issue. Card is a prism2.5 ...

search for ticket 288 on aircrack-ng bugs.

:(

Time to get a non-prism card.

As an afterthought...I installed the madwifi driver...is there a way to tell that it's working properly? Not sure how to make sure the card is actually using it.

Hi,

Yes, I am a newbie, and apologize for asking for such basic assistance. I am running BT4 installed, on a HP Pavilion dv5000 and am using a D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 (which I'm told should...