Coincidently, I have been working at the same thing for a bit today. Not licked yet (linux noob ) but I have stumbled on a few things that might help.

When it comes to wireless and backtrack, you are far better to buy something that has been tested rather than trying to make it work. Here is a list of tested cards :

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/arc...php/t-119.html

But you already know that. Instead, you can try these workarounds :

Open source - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List

Commercial (30 day trial, abt $ 20 US) - http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/


Good luck.