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More photos All 3 wires routed to the card slot. I left the black one off. I plan to eventually see if I can combine them but for now I will just leave it unplugged. And finally, here it is all finished. I am rockin the Alfa behind the monitor and the new antenna added. Rear view. And here is a close up of the antenna mounted.

I have been wanting to do this for a while and this afternoon I finally got a chance to do it. I added an external antenna connector to the hole where the notebook lock is located. So far I haven't been able to test its effectiveness but 10' from my router works as well as stock. I will have to take it out and see how well it does compared to the alfa. Tell me what you guys think. If nothing else it looks cool as hell. Here is a picture of before I started. The lock hole is the location I am going to put the antenna Here is the holes drilled the monitor support dremled out and the antenna adaptor half installed. It was a bitch getting everything back together. Here is another angle of the same. Here is an antenna test fitted. Another angle of the same. While I had it opened up I added a few conductive pads that I had left over from an xbox red ring kit. I am hoping they will help cool this thing down a little. Here is a close up of the adaptor. I think it looks like it came from Dell this way.

Company’s are always going to say something is illegal if they don't want you doing it. Its fare use, they don't really have a say in it. If it was up to the RIAA they would make it illegal to lessen to a radio in a passing car without paying royalties. If you own the game you own the game period. Use it how you like. EDIT: Also according to all of the game company’s emulators themselves are illegal.

LOL. this is such a waste of time for such a stupid outdated program. I have now spent 2 days trying to install it in two different distros. openSUSE and BT5. I quit. Its just not meant to be. Chances are it will not work on wpa2 networks anyway.

It would be cool if someone started mantaning it again. It would be a perfect fit in to aircrack. I am hardly a developer though.

I run everything in openSUSE. I have BT5 on an SD card if I need it but I rarely use it. I always use openSUSE. About the only thing I have not been able to install in SUSE is airpwn. And trust me that was not without trying.

Is there a program that does the same thing airpwn does that’s actually mantaned. I have been trying for 3 hours and airpwn is just to old to compile. After fighting the dependency hell and then modifying the configure file it still will not compile. Is there another program that does the same thing airpwn does.

How does your Alfa perform. I can only use mine for hacking. Its completely worthless as a wireless device. I have never been able to download at faster then about 300k to 500k. My inturnal card on the same notebook runs as fast as my Ethernet on my workstation.

I have spent a long time looking in to this and never found anything worth looking in to. Do you have any specific servers in mind?

Very well, that’s a reason. I had OSX on My Dell Mini 10V a while back. It was triple booted and it became to hard making the gpt/ntfs hybrid partition table work so I wiped it out. I use Linux most of the time and I could not upgrade without completely rebuilding the system. So now I just use Linux and Win7. Why not just try and get an old G4 imac. there dirt cheap and run OSX. I know there not the x86 version but still could be fun. You could also buy an old Dell mini. They run Lion really well. They have the same hardware as a Mac mini.

I have tried and never been able to get OSX to run in a VM. Honestly the amount of time I have spent on it in the past does not really justify the usefulness I would get out of having OSX in a VM in the first place. I mean its OSX, whats it good for?

The problem is we are also smaller then they are. The main reason that torrents have survived is because of noobs. If you get rid of the basic users and only have hackers able to use torrents then 95% of the content would be gone or dead. Yeah I know the point is legal content. However, we all know that isn't what the main use is. And we all know that hardly any of us just leave stuff seeding forever.

I use openSUSE. I have been for years and its treated me very well. I run all the same pen testing that I can from backtrack and it works very well as a main OS. Even handles an XP VM so I can use netflix. I remember back to my Windows days and I am not sacrificing anything with openSUSE. Honestly I a gaining an extremely powerful OS and still watching the big bang theory.

Personally I would not recommend Ubuntu. Its like learning how to program in Basic. You learn to many bad habits. Yes its easy but its easy for a reason. They have you do a lot from GUI's. Personally I would recommend something like openSUSE, fedora, or another ""Linux"" distro rather then a Debian half bread like Ubuntu. I kind of think of Ubuntu as the noob OS or the Windows of the Linux world. That might be a little cruel because there are many people that are way smarter then me that use Ubuntu. However, most dumb people use Ubuntu to, lol. Honestly you can ask this question at 10 different places and get 10 different answers because of the diversity in the Linux community. What I would do is download a bunch of distros. Get Ubuntu/Kbuntu, openSUSE, puppy, DSL, and any other ones you can find and install them all. Play with one for a few days and then switch to another. Once you have tried them all pick one that you like and use it for at least a year or 2. Don't distro hoop when you are first starting out. Get a comfort zone in a single distro. Once you know it like the back of your hand then what you learned can be used in any distro out there. Also if you have the option of using a GUI or the terminal, always use the terminal. When you are learning its best to do it the most universal way. For instance if you use openSUSE and you configure everything in Yast then what are you going to do if you decide to switch to Arch? Its best do do everything in a way that if you switch or get forced to use another distro you will not have problems. Also more can be done faster and easier in the terminal. Hope this helps. Welcome to the Linux world. Once your here, your here for life.

I used ddwrt-x86 on a virtual machine project a while back. I was trying to simulate a network for a new POS system I was installing for a restaurant I do work for. I wanted to try out different software in VM's with there own router. It worked OK. It was far from perfect.

I will have to look at that. Does that set a default alias for the screen session? Yeah, I saw there where tons of shortcuts.

Locked up agian. I have done 4649 pin attempts with 5 lockups. Has anyone else gotten this to work. I thought it was more of a sure thing then it seams to be.

DDWRT has an x86 version.

Nope. Woke up to a locked up router.

I'm pretty sure that the 15 second delay was the ticket. Its been running smooth for hours. Not a single missed pin attempt. Real slow though.

lol, Yeah I wonder how much obscurity we would find. Maybe even a backdoor WPA key.

I tried connecting to the router with an Ethernet cable and it was dead. Completely locked up. After pulling the power plug and letting it reboot its back to taking keys again. However, this is the 4th time and I am only 25% of the way though. The router does have a 5 minute timeout after 30 missed keys but the 10 second timeout that I did took care of that. It does not timeout for any time at all until it just locks up. BTW, I'm not sure if I mentioned this but this router is a Netgear n150. Its one of the new ones that does not come with an external antenna. However my alfa is about 5' away so I don't think its a connection problem. I tried earlier to lower the txpower on the alfa thinking that maybe it was overwhelming it but that had no effect. Its running at 20mW again. I have a hand full of wrt54g routers but they are all running ddwrt which does not support wps. I assume I could always flash the Linksys firmware back on to one of them and see if its just due to a cheap netgear router. However, I know a ton of people use the n150 and I sell these things like crazy. I guess there also the chance that netgear did something to protect from this kind of attack and making the router lock up was the easiest way to stop the attack. However, I checked the routers logs and they showed no indication that the router was under attack.

Well I just had to reset the test router for the 4th time. At least It went almost all day by adding the -d 10. I am going to try increasing the delay to 15 seconds and see if that helps. This time it locked up at 2640 pin attempts. Is it typical for reaver to ddos the router this many times. If you ask me it seams like wps is pretty secure if that’s the case. In the wild there is no way this would work. By the time you get the pin the owner of the router would have reset it or replaced it thinking it was bad. At this rate I will have to reset the router another 12 times before getting the pin since the pin is 9441****. Edit: I am now trying -d 15 -t 3 -x 300 -d = delay in seconds -t = pin reply timeout -x = seconds delay after 10 failed pin attempts. I'm hoping with these settings it will be more like walking on egg shells. Because it looks like that's what its going to take. Is there a way to start reaver back words. I mean start at 9999 rather then 0000?

I have tried two different openSUSE 12.1 systems and BT5 and I get the same results from all of them. There is slow performance in Windows 7 as well. I think these cards just suck. Its to bad because they do have a great range. However, that doesn't much matter if your speeds are going to be dialup'ish. I mean come on an hour to download a 500Mb file. That's kind of pathetic. I tried the r8187l drivers from realteks website and they where slightly better but the ability to change your txpower was disabled in them. I also tried installing the aircrack patched drivers and they are no better then the drivers included in the kernel. I think I am just going to use this card for simple stuff rather then connections. During all this research I have found that my broadcom b43 that came with this Dell mini is actually better then the alfa. I just ordered an external antenna adapter for the internal card that I am going to drill a hole and install where the notebook lock hole is. That way I will be able to run a large antenna off my internal card. Here is a photo of the adapter I am going to install. Does anyone know if its possible to splice in to the original antenna cable so I can use both? I know the original antenna will still work with one antenna wire but it would be nice to have the use of the monitor antenna when I don't have anything screwed in to the external. Also with one screw I can just switch the U.FL plugs. I was wondering almost every Alfa card I have seen has the Alfa logo on it except for the one for sale in the Hak5 shop. Also the Awus036h is normally white. Is the card in the Hakshop a real alfa or a generic?

That works great, thanks However, Its Ctrl+a+d to detach. It would be nice if you could tab complete the session name rather then typing it in but the plus side is if you only have one detached session you only have to type screen -r to attach to it.