Wireless Cracking Help

It can be really painful to try and get the right card, driver, and wireless tools working together. I have found that the Backtrack security suite makes this a little easer. They have added most of the drivers you need to their distro. Backtrack even detects and configures your card for you on bootup. I have tried Backtrack with many different pcmcia wireless cards and almost all of them have worked. I picked up a Orinoco gold card off of ebay for $30. This card is obviously a knock off but it was cheap and it uses the same firmware . It also has an external antenna adapter that I can attach to my cantenna. The card has actually worked pretty well for me. But the backtrack suite is my tool of choice for cracking wireless networks. It does a great job of bringing the drivers and the tools together.