thespiritbomber

Well it turns out the 'grub rescue>' error wasn't keeping me from booting from a live USB. There was something wrong with my usb stick, which I can't get fixed no matter how many times I format it or what method I use. Anyways, I made a new live BT5R2 usb stick and installed it no problem.

Yes, that's all taken care of. I've put the USB first in the boot list and even tried selecting it as the boot device manually with the f12 menu. Alright, I'll try that out and see what I get. By the way, I've got past the "grub rescue>" problem but I still can't boot from a USB device. I always get the error "Missing Operating System." now... Anyways, if I can't get this working tonight I'm going to get an external DVD drive and try to boot from that instead.

So I've got BT5R1, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 installed on my Acer Aspire One. I tried to boot from a live USB and now all I get is "grub rescue>" when booting. I can't even boot from a live USB stick now. I've searched for hours on how to fix this and can't find anything that works. Most people say to boot from a live CD or USB but since I'm using a netbook I can't boot from a live CD unless I go buy an external drive and I just can't get the live USB to work. I always come back with "grub rescue>". I'm completely 100% with just wiping everything and only having BT5 installed, which was my plan anyways. I just need a way to boot from the live USB or another way to just start over. Any ideas?

Ubuntu 11.10. By the way, I tested it on Backtrack 5 and it works fine.

I'm having trouble with getting airodump-ng to work on the right channel. No matter what channel I set it too, it always says the fixed channel is -1. I'm using the ALFA USB WiFi AWUS036H and have successfully cracked WEP several times but can't ever get a 4-way handshake when trying to crack WPA/WPA2. I assume it has to do with this channel handling problem. I've searched just about everywhere for solutions to this problem but still haven't solved it. I made sure there were no processes using wlan1 but no matter what I do I just can't get airodump-ng to work on the channel I want it to. Any solutions?

Alright, so I'm having a conversation with myself here but I got it taken care of and thought I'd post it incase anyone else is having this problem. I've seen a lot of people online having problems with this. Anyways, I did two things. The first thing I did was add 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost to the bottom of my hosts file. That took care of it but I went ahead and blocked the driver for my internal wireless card just in case. Kismet is working perfectly now!

edit: I'm running Ubuntu but it seems to work fine in Backtrack 5. Backtrack 5 won't initialize my internal wireless card but Ubuntu will, could this be part of the problem?

Hi everyone, I just got my new ALFA USB WiFi AWUS036H in the mail today and got Kismet up and running but I'm getting an error within a few minutes of running it. Here's the error: localhost:2501 TCP error: socket returned EOF, server has closed the connection. I get this error and it quits scanning. I've searched for a long time but haven't found any solutions to this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! By the way, I've got the configuration file set up correctly as far as I know because it does scan for a bit before I get the error and picks up networks.