Hey all,
I went looking for a more lightweight alternative to Debian or Ubuntu for my laptop (Mostly for kismet and the like). I came across Slitaz, and it has been PERFECT. Except for a few minor thing -
After much searching I found the equivalent of build-essential. Now compiling works for the most part, but I'm having trouble compiling kismet. The package in the repo isn't built with he suidinstall option, and I'm after the bleeding edge version.
Problems:
-I need to add my self to the kismet group. I made the group, but how can I add myself to the group without being told to log off? I tried logging in as root to it, but I was still told that that user was logged in. I believe at this stage it's the only kismet problem I'm having.

Other issues I'm having:
-How can I get Slitaz playing nice with my laptop? When I close the lid, the screen goes black. Good. But when I open it, the only way to get anywhere is to hold the power button for 10 seconds and turn it back on. I can't find any laptop settings or any packages in the repo that will help me out here.

One of the things I thought I would not get to work was wireless networking. I use the integrated ipw2200 to connect to my LAN but my external rtl8187 for monitor mode and sniffing, with its antenna. The GUI tools provided with Slitaz are the best I've ever used in linux. They're at the perfect level of noob-friendly and complexity. Ubuntu was far to dumbed down. Fantastic! :)

I'd really like some help with these issues though :)

Thanks