[b] hashcat problems.. please help! thank you [/b]

[extrasilver]

what undeath means is that your mask is literally only "abcdef0123456789". If you put it in there that way, hashcat will only try that one plain.
What you actually want is the whole keyspace. To achieve that you have to put it in like that:
hashcat -m 2500 -a3 /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap -1 abcdef0123456789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1

seem's to be working but its staying at Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1?1?1) [4]
all 4 cpu cores @100% load so i guess its busy doing something still..

what exacly is (?1?1?1?1?1) ? i really need to do some more research sorry but i am i'm learning

root@The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali):~# hashcat -m 2500 -a3 /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap -1 abcdef0123456789 ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1
Initializing hashcat v0.49 with 4 threads and 32mb segment-size...

Added hashes from file /root/Desktop/bthubhand.hccap: 1 (1 salts)
Activating quick-digest mode for single-hash with salt

NOTE: press enter for status-screen


Input.Mode: Mask (?1) [1]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 16 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 16/16 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1) [2]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 256 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: 2.61k plains, 2.61k words
Progress..: 256/256 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1?1) [3]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 4096 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: 2.70k plains, 2.70k words
Progress..: 4096/4096 (100.00%)
Running...: 00:00:00:02
Estimated.: --:--:--:--


Input.Mode: Mask (?1?1?1?1) [4]
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 65536 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: 2.68k plains, 2.68k words
Progress..: 65536/65536 (100.00%)
Running...: 00:00:00:24
Estimated.: --:--:--:--

not to sure exactly what its doing tho.. is this basically like aircrack-ng? as i'm working with cpu
with aircrack i average 3200 k/s