Linksys Wireless-G pci Network Adapter with SpeedBooster?!

Please try to get us a little more info, namely the chipset in the wireless card. You can either try checking the manufacturer's site (make note of the revision number), or more easily just boot a liveCD and check the output of the lspci command. Open a terminal, type in "lspci". If nothing comes up or it complains about something, try "sudo lspci".

Generally speaking, however, the speed-boost and pre-N linksys stuff has pretty crummy support as Linksys isn't releasing specs or drivers. Well-supported chipsets include the newer Intel wireless (Intel Pro Wireless 2100 and later), Atheros, RaLink, and Prism 1/1.5/2 (the grandaddy wireless card in Linux, many security tools are written to work with this chipset family)

here is what i got!

here is a site from chipsets to wireless recommendations

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=compatibility&Do...

In order to get Monitor Mode functionality ("sniffing" capability), you need to install the bcm43xx kernel module. Do a search along the lines of "install distro choice bcm43xx". It looks like people using the latest Fedora and Ubuntu versions are having success installing this module.

what about backtrack is there anyway i can make a partition for backtrack so i dont have to use the rom!~ Or is there anything else that i can use to crack encryption keys!

It appears as though Backtrack doesn't support that module in their latest liveCD release (they likely will in their next). An option is to just install one of the more installation-oriented (as opposed to a primarily liveCD-oriented) distros and (if needed) install the bcm43xx module and tools such as Wireshark, Kismet, and Aircrack-ng. Please make sure that you are not breaking any local laws by breaking onto a neighbor's (somewhat) secured network.

I take my precautions. I want to learn that to understand it and build my knowledge based on security. Yet i have no experience with Linux and many of my peers tell me i should start of with cracking encryptions... so if anyone knows what else can allow me to do all that!

thanks

DevilesEye (DAN)

What you can do is use a tool such as GParted LiveCD to safely resize the Windows partition on your disk to allow for a minimalist install for you to try this stuff out.

Even though many of the techniques you need to crack a WEP or WPA-PSK key are valuable to learn some of the lower-level network fundamentals (if you really understand what you're doing and not just reading a guide and accepting it at face value), all of the real security "magic" is hidden from you.

If anything, it teaches you that WEP is nothing more than a minor inconvenience for a moderately motivated and skilled user.