Airodump-ng problems on Backtrack 5
 

I recently have been trying to use Airodump-ng but for some reasons it has a hard time finding networks and sometimes it will but the pwr on the networks is at 0. Now when i just try to use the gui "wicd Network Manager" it has no problem giving me the networks or displaying the pwr which is about 80-85. My wireless card is a realtek RTL8180. I just downloaded the drivers/module to try and remount it but I am not sure on how to do this either =/. In the files Install read me it says there is a ./module_load script in there but really cant find it. I got the folder fromhttp://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/. Someone please help a poor newbie.

Who's network traffic are you trying to monitor?

My own due to high bandwith consumption in the middle of the night.

your own bandwith
check the system logs

see who is loging on

I know who it is just want to know what plus i would like to get this new os to work overall. Im trying to figure out how to redo my drivers for my wireless card which is something i need to know how to do anyhow.

I'd start with linux from scratch. I will teach you all or most of what you need to learn. Backtrack is not a good place to learn from.

Drivers are used in one of three ways. One is the driver is built into the kernel. Another is a driver is added on and the last way is to use ndiswrapper for windows drivers.