I wouldnt start off with back track. I started off using backtrack. Not smart, but you know what starting off with backtrack has done for me was push me to research the things i couldnt never figure...

I had that wireless device also. I couldnt get that thing to work for bt5 at all. I took it back and ordered this one...

it works for me on win 7 and xp and vista. I tested all three (os's). Now when your using bt5 gnome try this.



then enter the term ...
once your at the shell type ...
then try rescanning for...

Yea I tried that. And also I'll try and removing my security to check the settings because I really dont want to disable my security. I know the guy downstairs was stealing my wifi once. Lol. But ill...

Yea dude i've been researching it. Does the kde version utilize that horrible Wicd network manager?
I've searched google and seen several forums with the same issue as well.

yea i did that still no progress.. Lol

Basically what i did was gedit /etc/network/interfaces to read those two lines. Saved it restarted it. Then after that failed I tried the second option...

Ok,

Sorry about that well let me go into a little more detail.
I have the "alfa awus051nh" with the chipset listed in the first post. I'm currently utilizing WPA2 for encryption association. ...

I'm no expert but since I've been having issues lately i've found something's out researching my problems.

So if you insert the command i.e "iwconfig" what's the output from the command do you see...

Ok,

Well for starters WPA2 is the encryption I use for my AP.

Also alfa awus051nh usb card that's my device.

ok as you can see my chip set was posted in the very first post.

And I know...

Ok let me be a little more specific in this post.

I'm using BT5-vm-Gnome..

The very first time I used it it worked with my wireless card.

And i know the vm notices my wireless card is...