aireplay-ng / Intel 4965 AGN

[Victor Dorneanu]

Hello tech-net!

I'm new to this mailing list and I hope this is the right place to put
my question.

Due to my work as pentester, I've been using the aircrack-ng suite for
many years. A few weeks ago I've installed NetBSD 5.0 on my laptop and
now I'd like to fully "substitute" Linux by NetBSD. But there is one
problem: In order to generate arbitrary packets and such stuff (using
aireplay), I'll have to patch my driver as the man page indicates:

aireplay-ng supports single-NIC injection/monitor.
This feature needs driver patching.

Is there any driver patch available (see below for hardware
specifications)? Or are there any other tools for these purposes?


My hardware specifications:
WiFi: 003:00:0: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 4965AGN Mini-PCI Adapter
(miscellaneous network, revision 0x61)
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[Victor Dorneanu]

Hi David!

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I didn't have a look at the
sources. I can't tell you if there is such API.
I thought you guys might be using "aircrack-ng" or other related tools.


Best regards,

Victor Dorneanu

Post by Victor Dorneanu
Hello tech-net!
I'm new to this mailing list and I hope this is the right place to
put my question.
Due to my work as pentester, I've been using the aircrack-ng suite
for many years. A few weeks ago I've installed NetBSD 5.0 on my
laptop and now I'd like to fully "substitute" Linux by NetBSD. But
there is one problem: In order to generate arbitrary packets and such
stuff (using aireplay), I'll have to patch my driver as the man page
aireplay-ng supports single-NIC injection/monitor.
This feature needs driver patching.
Is there any driver patch available (see below for hardware
specifications)? Or are there any other tools for these purposes?
WiFi: 003:00:0: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 4965AGN Mini-PCI Adapter
(miscellaneous network, revision 0x61)

I'm not aware of any such patches... Is there a specific API that
aireplay is using to inject the packets?

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[Victor Dorneanu]

Hello tech-net!

I'd like to purchase a new Atheros-based WLAN card, which should be used
along with the CardBus slot. I took a look at the Atheros driver manpage
(man 4 ath):

a) At the moment following chipsets are supported: AR5210, AR5211,
AR5212, and AR5213
b) There are indeed some cards supported by the ath driver, but the
list isn't up-to-date (October 14, 2006)

Since the driver provides support only for a few Atheros chipsets, I'd
like to know if you guys know some other fully functionable devices
being currently supported. Or more in general (if you really got an
Atheros card): Which one do you use?

Thank you in advance!
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[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

Post by Victor Dorneanu
Hello tech-net!
I'd like to purchase a new Atheros-based WLAN card, which should be used
along with the CardBus slot. I took a look at the Atheros driver manpage

D'oh! ... I didn't though to update the man page when we switched to
the opensource HAL.

Post by Victor Dorneanu
  a) At the moment following chipsets are supported: AR5210, AR5211, AR5212,
and AR5213
  b) There are indeed some cards supported by the ath driver, but the list
isn't up-to-date (October 14, 2006)

we should support additionally AR2413, AR5413, AR5424, AR2417, AR5416,
AR9160, AR9280 and AR9285 (reference taken from the HAL source).

Post by Victor Dorneanu
Which one do you use?

my laptop has an AR5413, mostly stable despite some rare bug which
bring the network down (should have happen 2 or 3 times in the eight
past month). For those bugs, though, I'd more accuse ath(4) than the
HAL.

- Arnaud

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[Victor Dorneanu]

Post by Arnaud Lacombe
D'oh! ... I didn't though to update the man page when we switched to
the opensource HAL.

Oh.. Thanks for that information! It would be great if somebody would
update the man page. At least you should mention the opensource HAL.

Post by Arnaud Lacombe
we should support additionally AR2413, AR5413, AR5424, AR2417, AR5416,
AR9160, AR9280 and AR9285 (reference taken from the HAL source).

So I'll have to enable "ath_hal" in my kernel, right? Where can I found
this HAL aka firmware? Is there any documentation ("reference taken from
the HAL source")?


Best regards,

Victor
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[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi Victor,

Oh.. Thanks for that information! It would be great if somebody would update
the man page. At least you should mention the opensource HAL.

it is already:

"Chip-specific support is provided by the Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)."

Post by Arnaud Lacombe
we should support additionally AR2413, AR5413, AR5424, AR2417, AR5416,
AR9160, AR9280 and AR9285 (reference taken from the HAL source).

So I'll have to enable "ath_hal" in my kernel, right? Where can I found this
HAL aka firmware? Is there any documentation ("reference taken from the HAL
source")?

You shouldn't have to worry about the HAL, it is included in the build
when ath(4) is present in the config file.

- Arnaud

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