when i was learning a few things on backtrack i found naration to be idiotic, with heavily accented videos, so i found that when i looked at a video, i would look in the 'about' box underneath the video, if it was commented well, it would have text commands there, which i would then be able to use in backtrack to mess around with. hope that helps.
also, focus on one topic within backtrack, aka, sql injection, and then read white papers/youtube vids related to that topic, learn how to use that program and dont get distracted, backtrack is brilliant in the amount of preconfigured scripts it has, but if your just starting out, thats its downfall.
if you want to learn how to actualy use backtrack, you cant look up tutorials.
here is an example. say for example you want to do a man in the middle attack. look up how it works (just for the example, ill tell you. its ARP poisining). so then look up how ARP works. if you dont understand why ip addresses need to be translated into mac addresses, look that up. look up subnetting. look up how mac addresses work. once you understand all that, figure out how ARP works. open up a command prompt and run the arp command to see how its working in windows...
then, once you know how the protocol works, then start messing arround in ethercap or better yet, try to write your own basic arp program.
Also still getting AP rate limiting detected after putting "reaver -i mon0 -b(target bssid) -d20 -vv"?
And dose the'very verbose' command in the above do anything other then feed me more information into the terminal? (as I missed it out by mistake and it just up-dated the % complete/time/date rather then all the other info too?
ok pal, sorry fro late reply and diff account but have had difficulty logging in,
first a break down,
ok 1st command airmon-ng lists available wifi adaptors,
start wlan0starts the adaptor into promiscuous mode,
wash lists target network details,
reaver is the tool that brute forces the 8 digit wps set up and the -d & -vv options are delay and verbose+ output
i use vv as you get more info on where if anywhere uyo are getting stuck, as you seem to be getting ap rate liminting you need to keep increasing the delay untill you stop pricking the routers security
if you are booting a live disc i would stop that and use a usb stick of 4gb up that way every time you need to stop you save the work you have allready done
when you eventually do get the full run through keep the password and pin then if the password is changed you can add a -p pingoeshere to reaver and it will crack new pass in less than a minit
also when you get stuck with ap rate limiting you can cntrl c to stop cursor up for last command and go again- this is why it is valuable to save session data hence usb with save file, i use universal linux usb installer freeware and does pretty much everuy os
i hope this helps im no expert but i use bt5 for the same reason as you and ive done it a fair few times and those are the commands i use and ive not failed one yet, also if you use reaver -help or maybe--help you will get all possible options for that command, works with any command
Check out security tube if you're looking to learn some real info-sec stuff. There's a lot of good stuff on there, all for free (Except for the actual certifications.) I just finished the wifi security megaprimer and it was 52 videos on how to perform a penetration test (hack) a wireless network, all done with backtrack 5. Very in depth, very intuitive, very worth while.
I would recommend that get a good grip over networking and how stuffs work over internet like severs and clients and many such things then go get this book Back track 5 cook book to understand the basics how things work in command line . then google would do better ...then any thing else
Use Kali, its made by the same people but is up-to-date (the last time I checked) as it had a major re-do of the package system so it could easily update.
All the tutorials are the same and all the same packages are still available. Just a heads up is all.