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Kronk · 11-11-2004

Here is what I have used numerous times in the last 3 months for my wireless assessments.

1) Some flavor of Linux (RedHat 7/8 or YellowDogLinux for PPC seems to work best)
2) Two wireless adapters, 1 PCMCIA (prism based) 1 USB (prism based)
3) Patched hostap drivers for the PCMCIA wireless card
4) Wlan-ng linux drivers for the USB dongle only; You must disable pcmcia support when compiling and installing this driver or the driver will conflict with the hostap driver !!!! RPM install won't work in this case.

I use the PCMCIA card with the hostap drivers for replay attack and the USB adapter for capturing the data. I have been using Kismet together with its MAC address filtering capabilities to capture only the traffic from the target AP.

I can capture enough packets in about an hour to crack any 128-bit WEP key assuming I have captured a valid ARP packet to replay.

11-11-2004	#203 (permalink)
Kronk Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 13	Best (Linux) Setup for Aircrack Here is what I have used numerous times in the last 3 months for my wireless assessments. 1) Some flavor of Linux (RedHat 7/8 or YellowDogLinux for PPC seems to work best) 2) Two wireless adapters, 1 PCMCIA (prism based) 1 USB (prism based) 3) Patched hostap drivers for the PCMCIA wireless card 4) Wlan-ng linux drivers for the USB dongle only; You must disable pcmcia support when compiling and installing this driver or the driver will conflict with the hostap driver !!!! RPM install won't work in this case. I use the PCMCIA card with the hostap drivers for replay attack and the USB adapter for capturing the data. I have been using Kismet together with its MAC address filtering capabilities to capture only the traffic from the target AP. I can capture enough packets in about an hour to crack any 128-bit WEP key assuming I have captured a valid ARP packet to replay.