Have you tried stopping all of your mon's (mon0, mon1 etc), stopping wlan0, putting your card down and then up again, and then restarting networking?

You have to make sure that your card isn't in...

As for icons, I'm sure you can download those somewhere.

This works, it's how I did exactly the same thing. Just resize, hit the button and make sure that your konsole starts up using the default settings.

Wow, this certainly looks like a great tutorial. Now going to have a read through, thanks for posting!

Interesting, certainly looks cool. I'll give this a test drive when I get home :D

Did you start networking before trying to use Wicd?

What's so bad about reinstalling? I had to do it the other day, it only takes 10 minutes. Fixed all my problems too :D

That looks great, I'll be downloading it when I get home. Thanks!

I think this might be some kind of VMWare related problem - I had pretty much exactly the same problem when I was using VMWare. In the end, I just gave up and used two different machines, ARP...

It's sometimes not as easy as Googling and finding what you need straight away, unfortunately :(
That's another thing for the OP to learn - effective Google searching.

Interesting take on things ^

Perhaps this is also something I need to work on. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I need to secure my network a little better.

I've tried starting right from the beginning. I knew the basics of the way Linux works, but I forced myself to start again and take in some new approaches, learning things which I didn't know before....

Mod Edit: Please leave religion out of your posts. me and you are in exactly the same boat here. Thanks to everyone in this thread for replying, I needed these helpful nudges in the right direction...

Is it -sP?
I thought I usually used nmap -sn *IP range here*.

But then again, I'm probably wrong.

Interesting and informative video, thanks! Beats a lot of the other tutorials out there.

Cracking WPA? Read this...

cracking_wpa [Aircrack-ng]

I'm using it as my main OS on my laptop, but I recommend dual booting with Ubuntu as well, just so you get the hang of using a Linux system.

Try sniffing the network for hosts. You should find all the IP addresses you need :D

It certainly looks like something I'd enjoy doing in the future, once I've progressed with learning Backtrack and more about networking.

Thanks for bigging it up a little more, it's given me a bit...

Are you trying to enable monitoring mode, or simply just enable your wifi so that you can go online?

You might want to start networking before doing anything.

Try the settings tab - it has a section called "size" which might help slightly. That said, the changes you can make aren't very drastic, unless you use the "custom" option. Good luck!

I'm no expert, but wouldn't that suggest that it used a default username and password, such as...

admin
password

Now, seeing as you're scanning your own network (right?), you can tell me...

Make sure your networking service has started before trying to connect to a network. I had the exact same problem until I realized that you had to turn on networking - it's an easy mistake to make.

Glad to see another newcomer to all of this stuff. I only recently started using Backtrack (been using Ubuntu for a while now) and it's really interesting. I'm glad someone else is around the same...

What's up, just been looking around the forums and reading a whole lot about Backtrack - currently learning the OS and all of it's tools. Enjoying myself so far!