aircrack not working even with wpa key in dictionary

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Luca Ferrari
>Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:29 AM
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: aircrack not working even with wpa key in dictionary
>
>Hi all,
>to test my wireless network I played with airodump and aircrack
>following the 
>tutorial
>here:http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2007/08/howto-aircrack-ng-quick-
>and-simple.html.
>
>Now I've captured packets untill airodump presented me the WPA-PSK
>handshake 
>title in the top right corner of the screen. Then I stopped the program 
>airodump, and tried to guess the passprhase using the dictionary of john
>the 
>ripper:
>
>aircrack-ng -w /usr/share/john/password.lst *.cap

I use 
aircrack-ng -w -y password.lst *.cap

you could send your *.cap (off list) and let us try it for you