Usually those who produce video tutorials that show you a wpa password being cracked, already know the password (the videos is done using their network as attack subject) and insert it in the middle...

It's not impossible. However brute-forcing a lengthy password (and, I suppose, a bit complex), like you're trying to do, is a very time consuming task.
In the end all comes to how much time and...

Oh i see.
I tried that with my wireless network password also. Used crunch to generate and directly feed (into pyrit, but you can do that with aircrack too) a bunch of passwords with a static...

It seems it depends on the OS you're using (I'm on a 32bit OS).
More info here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42264&p=201269&viewfull=1#post201269

26 character WPA password? I think you might be wiser to not even try to break it, unless you have some hints on how the password was assembled, that could limit down the amount of processing/time...

Yes, you're doing it wrong. That's for sure.
There are some good tutorials on youtube (if you're more visual...).
Aircrack site is also a very good information source.
It's not possible to not be...

instead of

aircrack-ng -w /root/dekstop/wordlist.lst WPA1-01.ivs

use

aircrack-ng -w /root/dekstop/wordlist.lst WPA1*.cap

After some research i found pyrit. It managed to get my workhorse rig to pump up an average of 2500 PMK/s... for a 4 year old quadcore it's not bad at all, i think.
Even with this 7 year old laptop...

Hi.

Not that i'm that experienced with backtrack, since i'm using another distro (Linux Mint 12).

I also ran into some problems when trying to run my distro in VirtualBox from Oracle. I also...

Hi there.

I've been using the aircrack-ng suite to test my wireless network.
Using the smaller wordlist's from g0tmi1k i wasn't able to do it, however i came accross a more sophisticated attack...