I am stuck but making progress

[BoyntonStu]

I have an 8 GB usb flash with Backtrack R1 installed (64 bit)

It boots fine and I was able to do the following:

airmon-ng

I get wlan0 RTL8187 rtl8187 - [phy0]

macchanger -s wlan0

yields my MAC address.

Using the networking, I can connect to my WIFI

However, if I try using airodump-ng ... it indicates no connection and it gives a "very exciting" message. UGGH!

On another USB drive I have Ubuntu that boots and connects to the internet. I can surf using Firefox. No prolem

I am stuck.

[Snayler]

You probably should read some more about the aircrack suite and how to use it.

airmon-ng wlan0 start