So to be honest I haven't even tried installing BT5 yet, still running it off of live cds and my usb to test it out. However, my experience with multiboot hd is that to reinstall one os you have to...

Hello. I am still relatively new to backtrack. Been with it since 4R1, but just don't have the time to devote to learning it as I would like. However, my tip would be to type in "alsamixer". that...

So I haven't run across this problem with BT on usb, but from what I've experienced, (I have a lot of bootable disks) is that the disk is fragmented. If it it worked once, I would reformat the usb,...

There definitely seems to be a lot of freedom of choice when using these tools.


yea I saw that previously but I overlooked it because I have found other tools that installing vmware on...

I was wanting to test out Metasploit, and have started reading Metasploit Unleashed. Right off the bat, it suggested having either windows xp2 or metasploitable (which I have neither). My laptop is...

While I am still trying to figure out how to get the bluetooth to work myself. If it is any consolation, when I type in "hciconfig -a" or "hciconfig hcl0 up" it returns with "Can't get device info:...

Hello, I had many struggles getting mine to work as well. First you want to make sure that your wireless card can inject. Follow this guide to test it.
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thanks for the link kmdave, I never found that page before. This is definitely a deeper tool than I anticipated. It seems as if it may be useful no matter what I choose to do.

Okay, so some of you may have seen my post on asking what path I should take, but I ran into something called metasploit. There seems to be tutorials everywhere and I googled the definition but it...

Glad to hear you will put some thought into it. I will pm you lupin if I think of anything. And a graph would definitely be hectic. Going purely off the topics that lupin suggested, I would think...

wow, wasn't subscribed to the thread for some reason. oops. Thanks for all your answers. I was worried there would be no single answer. the pdf that iproute posted looks interesting. it seems as if...

This may have been asked before, but I could not find a list. I would recommend someone to make a sticked post if it is possible to answer.
But I am fairly new to BT and I was wondering if there is...

Okay, update. I deleted Backtrack and reinstalled it, thinking that there could be some problem with my previous installation or that I did something unknowingly that caused the internet to not work...

So when I type in lspci i get this output:
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enha
nced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation...

Okay, so I tried to connect manually and I got stuck part way. What I did was:
ifconfig
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist scan

and then it said that eth0 and lo don't have the scanning ability and...

Hello all. I have been having some difficulty with getting backtrack 4 to connect to the internet when I boot from my hdd. I have it set up as a dual boot win 7 pro x64 / bt4. and when I open Wicd...

Hello all, I am into the networking field, however I only ever deal with Windows OS. This is the first serious time using Linux. I am stuck at the very beginning of this adventure. I am merely trying...