Wireless discovery and WEP cracking on one 802.11b card

From: Dan Stofl (danstofl@yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/01 

Message-ID: <20010928233150.36086.qmail@web20607.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Stofl <danstofl@yahoo.com>
Subject: Wireless discovery and WEP cracking on one 802.11b card
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com

I would like to perform discovery of 802.11b networks and WEP cracking
on the same card. Currently WEP cracking is limited to a select number
of Prism II cards.

Addtron AWP-100
Bromax Freeport
Compaq WL100
D-Link DWL-650
GemTek (Taiwan) WL-211
Linksys WPC11
Samsung SWL2000-N
SMC 2632W
Z-Com XI300
Zoom Telephonics ZoomAir 4100
LeArtery Solutions SyncbyAir LN101

Unfortunately from my research these cards are lacking when it comes to
their range when compared with other cards such as the Cisco Aironet
340/350 or the Lucent Orinoco cards. It also appears that these cards
do not have connectors for external antennas. If this is true, is it
asking too much for the above cards to do net stumbling? If so, is
there a way to boost the gain to one of these cards so it would be more
effective in this role? Alternatively, are there other cards better
suited for the discovery of 802.11b networks that can also perform WEP
cracking?

=====
Justin Childs
danstofl@yahoo.com

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone.
http://phone.yahoo.com

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA)
Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which
automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see:
https://alerts.securityfocus.com/

Relevant Pages

  • RE: Wireless discovery and WEP cracking on one 802.11b card
    ... To make a clean connector you need to purchase an end launch MMCX jack: ... For good instructions on removing the antenna cover check out: ... Unfortunately from my research these cards are lacking when it comes to ... This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert ...
    (Pen-Test)
  • Re: 802.11B and libpcap
    ... what is so special in the PRISMII cards that airsnort only works ... This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert ... For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which ...
    (Pen-Test)
  • Re: 802.11B and libpcap
    ... what is so special in the PRISMII cards that airsnort only works ... > This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert ... For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which ...
    (Pen-Test)
  • Re: 802.11/monitor mode (Was: Re: 802.11B and libpcap)
    ... > "standard linux kernel". ... > aironet4500) cards. ... > on the Lucent Chipset but ... This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert ...
    (Pen-Test)
  • Re: Using Airsnort through vmware on Red Hat 7.1
    ... > the lucent cards that say "wavelan" seem to work for me. ... What are the relative firmware levels of the wavelan vs orinoco cards? ... This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert ...
    (Pen-Test)