hello linux people. some newbie questions I hope you can help.

ok. can I use 2 os, Mandriva 2010 and backtrack 4 on the same computer??? How?

I have down loaded and installed Kismet with install & remove. but can not find the Kismet folder? for editing kismet.conf .. but I have command in the console (Mandriva)

how to set up and instalere network drivers backtrack 4? Network card driver, wifi driver, cd rom driver?
Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M
intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

To answer your first question, yes you can install 2 Operating Systems side by side.

You need 4 partitions minimum, / and swap respectively for both. Or you can even share the swap space between the 2 Operating Systems as only one will be running and ideally using the swap space at any given point of time.

How did you install Kismet ? RPM/Source installation ? You can use locate command to search for the file. Before you run the command update the locate database,


For the drivers issue, post the complete output of the below given command,

Most user-specific configuration files are found as hidden files or folders in your home directory. These are filenames that begin with a period. Your gui file browser should have an option to show hidden files, and in a console you can use "ls -A" to list them.

Global configuration files are usually located in /etc, and so are only editable by the root user.

Also, some programs don't have .conf files by default, meaning you have to create it first.


Edit: a few seconds on google found a couple of links on configuring kismet:

http://securityforest.com/wiki/index..._and_configure

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials...le.php/3595531