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  1. Has anyone gotten a Samsung Chromebook 3, with crouton installing Kali or Ubuntu, to recognize an external wifi adapter? I keep doing searches and come up with posts from 2014 and 2015 saying that the Chromebook is not capable of recognizing external wifi adapters. Specifically I have an Alfa AWUS036NHA i'd like to use.

    If i can't resolve this by Nov 1 (2018) i'm just going to buy a "traditional" Win10 PC with a non-eMMC spinning 500GB drive. I've had no problem making those dual-boot.

    There is so much negative information about (1) making machines with eMMC (SSHD) dual boot or booting up off USB, and (2) Chromebooks not recognizing external wifi adapters. Maybe i need to wait 2-3 yrs for Chromebooks to become more versatile?  ... Thanks for comments.

  2. CnetExpo, thanks for the reply. That was February 9, and i've learned a bunch since then, and i keep notebooks on it because i won't remember it all!

    Basically, right now i'm using Pentoo-on-a-stick to control a HackRF. I am not trying to install more programs on the usb stick, the Gentoo/Pentoo commands are not something i want to learn right now.

    Then: i use Kali and Ubuntu 16 to control the YS1, and other tasks.

    So i push-push-push on something until i either succeed or give up lol. I have about a 65% success rate. I just hate it when website instructions are outdated or wrong, plus there's my own klutz factor lol.

    Heureux juillet ami

    O.

  3. Well no responses to this, from people who may have used it. Here is my update from doing searches. So far i have no solution for the dongle (usb) version of this, but it looks like there are an Arduino (and an R Pi) solutions for using the CC1101 transceiver:

    with Arduino: https://github.com/veonik/arduino-cc1101 and
    with no usb connector: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CC1101-315-433-868-915Mhz-Wireless-Module-SMA-Antenna-Transceiver-for-Arduino/272432624852?epid=509065236&hash=item3f6e3ff4d4:g:V00AAOSwXeJYFtlQ

    More:

    https://github.com/SpaceTeddy/CC1101

     

    And yet more:

    https://salmg.net/2017/09/20/cc1101-transceiver-raspberry-pi/

     

     

    The R Pi solution looks the most attractive to me, since i have a spare one, and i don't have an Arduino .

     
  4. You might do searches to find out if "wireless locksmiths" can get certified or licensed. For example, for people with cars who somehow get locked out of their vehicles, and need the help of a "wireless locksmith."  I would be careful though; make sure it can even be done legitimately. If it's known that you have the skill, you can become a suspect in break-ins.

    "Alarm system installer" -- that looks interesting -- i'll have to check to see what legal requirements are for that. What is likely is that you would need to put up a lot of cash for insurance or for a 'bond' but i don't know.

  5. Here is the guy who was trying to research this in 2013: https://allodox.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/usb-1100pa-433mhz-wireless-rf-transceiver/

    He tried to install the driver for his Ubuntu machine, but got errors, as he states in his blog.

    And then he links to this site, in Chinese, but can be run thru a translator: http://www.fytoo.com/msg.php?id=158

     

    So I am wondering if anyone has successfully used this device. For example, for 2-way chat, it's very inexpensive compared to a YS1. ... Thank you.

  6. Hello folks, has anyone gotten two of these to work as, perhaps, a chatroom (like the YS1 with ToorChat)?

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/433Mhz-CC1101-10mW-MAX232-RS232-USB-UART-RF-Transceiver-Wireless/142344922555?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649

     

    One blog post i looked at, which i can't find now & was undated, said he could find no documentation on how to use this. I would like to use it as a chat transceiver, controlled by python scripts.

    Also found this: https://github.com/veonik/arduino-cc1101

    but i am not knowledgeable enough to figure out if the USB CC1101 goes with an Arduino, or if it's necessary to jump into Arduino to do this. I'm hesitating getting into Arduino, and if there's a simple usb dongle that can send & recv text using FSK with Python scripts, i'm in favor of that. ...  There are CC1101 available that are not USB.

     

    Thanks for any comments .   --orrin

  7. Hello, just wondering what folks have to say about the HackRF One units selling on eBay from China for $155, half the U.S. price. They all appear to have clear cases. Are these knockoffs, counterfeits, earlier model, or what? ... When i get a HackRF, i want it to be compatible with the PortaPack which i'll buy later.

  8. Recently installed Kali to my RPi3, and also to a USB drive for use on my Ubuntu16/Win10 laptop. Today I tried to make the Kali USB drive 'persistent,' and I thought maybe some people even more newbie than me might be interested in hearing what i had to do to make it work. Following the instructions blindly doesn't always work:

    (1) Creating the USB drive, no problem: https://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install

    However i had to do it using Win32 Disk Imager, because when i used the 'dd' method (from Ubuntu16 in a VirtualBox) it ran all night and still hadn't finished. So, Win32 imager.

    (2) Then on to make the Kali installation have 'persistence' so it would save settings and be able to save downloaded applications and scripts: https://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-persistence

    ... which is where i began to have some problems. Under Step 1. i wasn't getting the prescribed sdb1 and sdb2. I had 3 sdb drives already. So i went back and repeated the Win32 Disk Imager process, and then doing fdisk -l on the usb drive, in a Ubuntu16 machine, showed me sdb1 and sdb2. ... Step 2. went well, in my case it was kali-linux-2018.1-i386.iso and i executed each line in Step 2 separately, waiting for each process to finish. ... Step 3. again execute each line separately and wait for each one to finish before going on to the next. ...  Step 4. is where i was baffled; i wasn't getting persistence on re-boot. It turns out the directory wasn't being created, nor was the persistence.conf file. I had to go to /mnt, create the directory, cd to it, create persistence.conf and enter the ' / union ' and save it. Then unmount. I think that is all i had to do. Create a dummy text file in my home directory, save it, re-boot into Kali Persistent mode, and voila i had persistence. ... To experienced users, this all must seem silly, but six months ago i would have been totally baffled by the instructions "not working." Even newer newbies may find this hair-pulling today useful. ... THEN:

    (3) Why wouldn't my command-line rtl-sdr WBFM script work?  rtl_fm -f 93.3e6 -M wbfm -s 200000 -r 48k - | aplay -r 48000 -f S16_LE

    First, of course, sudo apt-get rtl-sdr. But my one-liner wouldn't put out because my Kali didn't have aplay. So: sudo apt-get install alsa-utils, then the script would run. Almost. This version of aplay didn't like '  -r 48k  ' so i had to change that to ' -r 48000 '.  Then i got my FM station. Audio quality poor, so i will have to tweak that script on Kali. On Ubuntu16 i think it sounded just fine.

    So that was my day today. NEXT: installing rfcat on my Pentoo USB stick. I haven't a clue, yet. I did figure out that  'sudo apt-get install' gets replaced by 'sudo emerge --ask' but it doesn't find rfcat anywhere out there. I'm probably doing something wrong? ... Cheers.

  9. On 2/17/2018 at 2:36 AM, Dave-ee Jones said:

    I'm not sure about that. I don't see why it would affect it but it would definitely be worth seeing if anyone has a tutorial or a bit of documentation for dual-boots with HPs and Windows 10.

    Okay, I don't know if that's good or bad - depends what you do with it :P You could try making it more secure, though, as it sounds like others can hack it fairly easily too - unless you were just hacking the software?

    -- Well i don't intend to do anything that will make this 'hobby' too expensive, such as doing something that will get me a hearing by a judge!

    -- So now i did find some dual-boot info as you suggest, and put Ubuntu16 dual-boot with Win10 on the "new" HP laptop. The Ubuntu runs very fast, unlike when it was in a VirtualBox on the HP where it was so slow it was unusable. ... I think i must have made some error in making the dual-boot, because i don't get a grub menu when i turn on the machine. I have to hit ESC, then F9 (Boot Manager), then boot option "Notebook Hard Drive" and then i get the Grub menu. It works for me for now; i'm not going to re-do the whole process. I followed two identical tutorials, but as often happens, the tutorials don't correspond exactly to the reality.

     You wrote: Okay, I don't know if that's good or bad - depends what you do with it :P You could try making it more secure, though, as it sounds like others can hack it fairly easily too - unless you were just hacking the software?

     

    -- Well i don't intend to do anything that will make this 'hobby' too expensive, such as doing something that will get me a hearing by a judge!  Next i'm going to hack my remote light switch, a motion detector, my wireless thermometer, and then my TVs. If i want to try some pranks (very few pranks), i'll just buy a TV-B-Gone LOL.

     

  10. 21 hours ago, Dave-ee Jones said:

    If you want both OS' there are a few things you can do:

    1. Partition the drive so you can have an OS on each partition (maybe have a 3rd for general storage shared between both OS')
    2. Buy another drive and swap between them on boot as you want
    3. Live Boot USB that boots a Live CD version of Ubuntu (keep in mind this will probably be slow, but you can set up persistence)
      • There's a really cool app for Android phones that allow you to have a boot partition on your phone so it can act as a live boot CD - pretty cool. Here's a link.

    Unless you do one of those things you can't have both OS' on the one hard drive (unless, of course, VM but you are already doing that).

    You could buy another Thinkpad but that means you would be carrying around 2 laptops. Not really an ideal solution.

    Hope this helps!

    Dave, thanks for the response. I will have to think  about this. My questions now are: (1) Can my Win10 HP be made dual-boot? I know how to do it, but will doing this on Win10 break the laptop? (As i said, for some odd HP reason, boot order can't be changed in the BIOS. Can only be changed by hitting F11 to enter an HP boot utility. Don't know if this is relevant to making it dual-boot.) and

    (2) Have you or anyone put Ubuntu16 on a Thinkpad T400? (Would it be too slow.) I put Ubuntu14 on it, not knowing that apps like inspectrum need Ubuntu16.

    (3) (not a question): Ubuntu16 works fine in VirtualBox on an older, higher quality Toshiba here. Communicates fine with the Yardstick.  I just need another Ubuntu16 machine here.

    Off-topic: Today I hacked my wireless doorbell! My first success. Using my notes from Hak5 + ConsoleCowboy videos. Def a rush!  And i can ssh to it from the outside world if i want to.

  11. On 2/9/2018 at 4:45 PM, Sebkinne said:

    This, and how well they run Linux / how expandable they are. 

    Thinkpads are notorious for running Linux well, and being easy to upgrade (swap out wireless card, add more disks, or ram). They can usually also be found cheaply on eBay.

    Sebkinne & folks, that is the kind of advice i've been looking for: that Thinkpads are good for this. But could you help me out with this:

    (1) okay, i have Ubuntu14 running on a Thinkpad T400. I am just the past month getting into rfcat, a Yardstick, and using an rtl-sdr dongle for this (instead of just using the rtl-sdr dongle to listen to FM and AM stations).

    (2) When i learned about inspectrum from a Hak5 video, i found that Ubuntu14 could not find it anywhere, so i assumed it needed Ubuntu16. I now am running Ubuntu16 in a VirtualBox on one of my Win10 machines. With that config, rfcat is communicating with the Yardstick, and inspectrum is installed. Am about to try using inspectrum today.

    (3) Another, cheap, Win10 laptop here (new 6 months ago, an HP product # X7T78UA#ABA, model 15-ba009dx) doesn't seem to "like" anything later than Ubuntu12, either from LiveCD or in VirtualBox. Ubuntu14 is so slow it's unusable.

    (4) So now i finally get to my point or question: what about putting Ubuntu16 on the HP, wiping out Win10 completely? (If I could even get an Ubuntu16 LiveCD to load; if not, try Ubuntu12 and then upgrade to 16?) ... Will i brick the HP by trying to wipe out Windows completely and make the laptop boot right into Ubuntu16? (And can the HP be made into dual-boot Ubuntu16/Win10? I read that it can be hazardous.) The HP will not boot off a USB or CD unless i hit one of the F keys to get into an HP boot utility. In the BIOS settings, changing the boot order does not work. I think this HP is kind of lame.

    (5) Or should i leave the HP the way it is (Win10 with only Ubuntu12 in VirtualBox), and just get another Thinkpad T400 on eBay for Ubuntu16? 

    Discovering that inspectrum is not available for my  Ubuntu14 T400 is what is booting me into asking these questions. Thanks for any comments.

     

    --orrin in NE California

     

     

  12. Howdy folks, thanks for any comments, I am stuck basically because Pentoo doesn't have the apt-get command. I've looked on Gentoo forums but have no idea what commands to use. Something to do with 'emerge' but the syntax is totally unfamiliar to me.

    (1) In one of the other Episodes, Pentoo is recommended. But in Ep. 1908, we have:

    wget https://bitbucket.org/atlas0fd00m/rfcat/downloads/rfcat_150225.tgz
    tar zxvf rfcat_150225.tgz
    cd rfcat_150225
    sudo apt-get install python-usb
    sudo python setup.py install
    sudo rfcat -r


    I'm fine till i get to "sudo apt-get install python-usb' because pentoo/gentoo doesn't have apt-get. What 'emerge' command can i substitute, and will that even work. And will the *next* line (sudo python setup.py install) work as is in Pentoo.

     

    I could go back and use Ubuntu 14 for everything, but then why did i get Pentoo? Thanks...      --orrin

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