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Hi, im a n00b with linux ...lool i have a dell inspiron 1501. with a wireless dell 1390 .......am running back track 3(usb version) from a 4gb usb drive that i partitioned and added a persistent home directory for it. i have wireless internet it works on windows. and hasnt worked on back track 3 or any linuc distro i tried on this f'ing machine... i checked and read up it has a broadcomm chip on the wireless card....i can do monitor mode on backtrack 3 with airodump it detects the AP and other machines connected to it...i can see their mac addresses. and it detects packets. but i couldnt connect the internet..i tried wirelless assitant , i entered the WPA key and it does not connect. i been messing arounfd with it for a a few days...i tried a few things... i think i install the linux build essentials and headers. i downloaded new version of ndis wrapper and unzipped it and installed it. i black listed bcm43xx, rebooted and did ndiswrapper to the bcmlw6.inf....it was worse...it didnt work so i then deleted my changes from the usb drive(persistent home) and it was back to how it was the beginning and i bought HAWKING HWUG1 usb dongle wireless adapter. i connected it and started up back track 3 i did ifconfig rausb0 up and tried and nothing...then i saw the light on the HWUG! blinking so i went to wireless assitant and i selected rausb0 again and it detected my AP. butl the light on the HWUG stoped blinking and then i cant connect when i push refresh on wireless assitant it doesnt detect my AP anymore. and then the light started again for a sec and i tried to connect, entered my WPA and it said something like 'wireless card device is manualy turned off' or something like that. i tested my HWUG1 on my desktop pc runing windows xp..the HWUG! worked fine on that one to connect to my wireless network... so then i tried blacklist bcm43xx again with my HWUG1 connected on my laptop with backtrack 3...and its worse... anyone know how i can get it to work.? please also the COmpiz fusion doesnt work on this lapto cause of my ATI driver i think.....i havent figured how to configure a drivef patch yet....but i would love to use compiz on it cause it looks so kool........i bought a new desktop with no operating system its on the way and it has an nVidia Geforce 7050 video card i hear these are great with compuz fusion. EDIT: I JUST DOWNLOADED BACK TRACK 4 BETA AND IT CONNECTS TO INTERNET ON MY LAPTOP LIKE A CHARM..I JUST DO: /etc/init.d/networking start then i have to press ctrl+c cause its tries to start with eth0 (10/100 ethernet card)..then just do: /etc/init.d/networking start again and bam this time it sais ok...then i do: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start and then ifconfig wlan0 up after this network manager works and i can connect :)) this is the only distro ive gotten to connect wireless and i tried a shit load of them lo0l!