A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I purchased a magical pineapple from the wonderful providers of entertainment and hacking news/products at Hak5. I did NOT know what I was doing, and in my attempt to set up the pineapple I ended up killing it, and desecrating it's remains.
A few months, if not years, passed, and I tried yet again to set up my rather expensive bit of hardware. Here's what I've done so far:
1) Followed the guide for building/unbricking (here: http://hak5.org/hack/wifi-pineapple-flashing-guide)
2) Followed the "My first connection guide" (here: http://hak5.org/hack/wifi-pineapple-first-connect#comment-48620)
ALL OF THAT went off without a hitch, minus a missing dll and some minor connection problems. I was ecstatic, it was even less trouble than when I hacked my xbox. Now, I've run into a problem that I have yet to see posted on this forum (and for which the search bar turns up no good results). Actually, it's more like I've run into two problems.
I have two computers, one running windows (vista), and another running linux (ubuntu 10.10). My Windows computer connects to the internet (NOT through the pineapple) just fine (when the pineapple is disconnected), but my laptop cannot connect to my default router no matter what, as long as the pineapple is on. Is this normal?
The other problem i have is this: Ignoring the last problem, I have been trying to set up the pineapple to work on the laptop using this tutorial: http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=15200&st=0 . BEFORE (when my pineapple was fragged, because i didn't know the password anymore) when i tried to connect, i didn't get an error message. This time, I get a lengthy message stating some nonsense about a "man in the middle" attack, JUST before the terminal spits out a message reading: "Host key verification failed." Is this because I rebuilt the pineapple, and it has a new host key? If so, what is the new/default host key (i don't remember changing it)?
Sorry if someone else has posted this question somewhere else, just curious about this whole mess. Also, is there a way to setup the pineapple on windows? I would rather set it up on linux, but meh, whichever is easiest.