[airodump-ng: input/output error]

Hey techies,

I'm a newbie who's fascinated by Kali. My friend and I were trying to

pentest his network when we got these errors:

"bash: /usr/sbin/airodump-ng: input/output error"

And when I tried to open iceweasel I got yet another error:

"Failed to execute child process "iceweasel" (input/output error)"'

What is the problem and how do I rectify it?

Please remember that I'm a tyro and am just getting my feet wet in this

fascinating world of White-Hat-Hacking. So please lay it down nice and slow

- in English!

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

I'm booting Kali through a USB. The version is, kali-linux-1.0.8-i386.

My system specs are:

System Name: NA

[system Summary]

Item Value

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name NA

System Manufacturer LENOVO

System Model 2767W3A

System Type X86-based PC

Processor Intel® Core2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz, 2534 Mhz,

2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date LENOVO 7UET94WW (3.24 ), 17/10/2012

SMBIOS Version 2.4

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale United Kingdom

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"

User Name NA

Time Zone India Standard Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB

Total Physical Memory 1.90 GB

Available Physical Memory 889 MB

Total Virtual Memory 3.80 GB

Available Virtual Memory 2.53 GB

Page File Space 1.90 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

PS: That poser: "What fruit is the wireless penetration testing router?" I had to REALLY google to find the answer. That's really a good one.