what?

Don't know what to tell you.  Simply doesn't work for me with four different adapters and chipsets.  Are you using encryption?  WES?  WPA?  WPA2?   Using WPA2 with AES here.  wpasupplicant loaded via aptitude install.

hmm.  dunno.  as always, I will try to make any hardware you send to me work.  otherwise, I think you (or someone) will have to sort that out and let me know what needs to be changed.  I don't have any wireless hardware that doesn't work here.

My wireless usb devices are pretty old, but I had better luck with wireless using WICD instead of network manager:
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/moinmoin/Wicd%20on%20Ubuntu

I also had to modify the device ID as suggested in this thread, but its specific to the Linksys WUSB100... just mentioning it in case its some sort of driver id issue in your case as well.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8086015#post8086015

glad to hear it.  always nice when it works for somebody.  based on # of download vs number of complaints, I have to assume it does work for most people, but sometimes seems like I only hear from the folks who have problems.

Well, after solving the IP addressing issue (assigned a static IP and all is well) ... I have another machine that seems to be having an issue.  This machine seems to lock up with I have the --api-listen line in cgminer_opts.  If I remove that, the machine is stable.

Anyone got any ideas why that might cause just this one machine to become unstable?

Just wondering, is there a way to have a bash script run at start up?

Same way you run a bash script at start up on any other linux machine.  BAMT is just debian with the mining stuff installed.  Write an init script or just add a line toetc/rc.local

It works using cgminer.conf & cgminer.  I have never used phoenix and pool.conf file.

What is the best way to troubleshoot mgpumon not running? It had been running for weeks in a putty console on my win 7 workstation/gaming system, I needed to reboot so I hit q to exit mgpumon, then typed exit to close the session. I rebooting my Win 7 system and when I connected via putty, gpumon works fine, but mgpumon (mgpumonetc/bamt/mgpumon.conf) just clears the term window and goes back to the prompt. It wigs out the console too, like you can't see what you type anymore. Very strange. I did try restarting that rig, but it still will not run even after power cycle. I went to the console on the rig itself and try to run it from the GUI, but when you try to start it from the menu, it just pops the console window and closes. I tried looking invar/log/bamt.log but no errors if you tail it and try to launch it from another term window.

Just to rule out a going bad USB stick, I also wrote a fresh image on a new USB stick, copied over my config files, still does not run. I think the only thing that changed was adding in the bamtpro_id: and do_submitter: a week or so ago when I became a BAMT Pro Member. Commenting out those lines does not fix it either.

Puzzled...