MRGRIM Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Hello I've bought a Netgear MA111 for the purpose of cracking wep keys as I though it looked intrested. I am a complete Linux novice (having only ever set a SAMBA server up) so I've downloaded the Auditor and am booting off the CD. I've been playing round with Kismet etc following some instructions I've found online however I belive I need to set my wireless adapter into monitor mode I belive I can do this by running 'iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor; when I do this I get the following error message 'Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.' Being a novice I don't know how to resolve the issue or where to possibly start, I've had a look at some google groups but its awfully scare as they keep telling people to recompile things :shock: does anyone have any suggestions? Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painkiller667 Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 are you afraid of using the word n00b? Is that why you say novice? Anyway, your adapter mustn't be supported in linux, for if it was, you wouldn't get the error. The error message is pretty self explanatory. Did you research if your adapter was capable first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 If your wireless card isn't supported you could always use ndiswrapper to make it run using the windows drivers, but for a novice this is going to be the difficult route to take. Even if you did get your card to work using ndiswrapper it won't be capable of running in promiscuous mode, which is what you need it to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 The wireless adapter is supported as it is one of the recommend adapters it also uses a Prism 2 chipset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Post your output from the command: iwconfig most wireless cards that show up as wlan0 create two devices. I don't know why, it's just something you live with. So you can try setting eth1 to monitor. Also, try using airmon.h to set your interface to monitor mode. just hit airmo and hit tab to make sure that is the right one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 Thanks will give both suggestions a go tomorrow. :) I am slolwy picking up Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Stress Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 For me and my prisim adapter (Senao 2511) to set it to monitor mode and have it working properly I had to downgrade the firmware then to set it to monitor mode I used: ifconfig wlan0 up airmon.sh start wlan0 iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor something you might try also a very good resource for WEP cracking checkout http://forums.remote-exploit.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 most wireless cards that show up as wlan0 create two devices.Also, try using airmon.h to set your interface to monitor mode. just hit airmo and hit tab to make sure that is the right one. I have 3 devices listed, eth0, lo and wlan0. I am using a live cd version of Auditor, when I type airmo or airmon.h it says "command not found" ifconfig wlan0 upairmon.sh start wlan0 iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor Again when I tried airmon.sh "command not found" Quite depressing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Stress Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Try airmon-ng start wlan0 not sure if "airmon-ng" is in Auditor or not I can't remember, but if you check out Back|Track live CD you should be fine. Also if your planing to do any wireless auditing I would suggest the Senao 2511 pcmcia card available at wlanparts.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokhara Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 fwiw i had a hell of a time getting kismet to work with my orinoco gold card until i downloaded knoppix-std and then it worked first time. the major problem wiith the orinoco is that it has limited range for cracking wep. sdduming you are trying it at home you cant exactly hang your laptop out the window, ideally you want a usb adaptor with an extension cable which you can then hang out your window or move to a better signal reception area, i use a linksys usb adaptor for my surfing and it picks up many more packets than my orinoco, unfortunately it is not supported by kismet, i am going to buy one of these netgear ma111 adaptors and try it with knoppix-std, that would be perfect for cracking wep, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I would do google searches on your specific model. If it gets detected as Prism, you should be able to set it to monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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