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The current state of my backtrack install is wireless is fully functional, and wired is completely dead (bt doesnt even recognize eth0)

Now I cant remember exactaly how i got to...

Actually I figured out what it was, actually it was a combination of things:

1) the command dpkg... says -i -force where instead it should be --force

2) the apt-get install linux-image says i...

Hey,

Trying to update my kernel as described here

BackTrack 4 Pre Final Kernel Update

and on the 3rd and 4th step, i get the following messages/errors:

I seem to be having some issues to get my wired NIC (ar8132 chipset) up and running.

any time I try to boot the nic up (running dhclient, ifconfig eth0 up, etc. etc.) much to my dismay, I start...