Re: For Linux Users

"Jay R. Ashworth" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.bay-area
Organization Ashworth & Associates, St Pete FL USA
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:03:57PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You might consider extending it to present WEP'ped networks for which
> > there is a local key file available.  (looks at script)  Oh, you're
> > expecting the old wireless stuff; my device is wlan0.  That might make
> > this extension a bit messier.

> Yes, you'll need to change "eth1" to "wlan0" or replace "eth1" with "$1" in the script and
> then passwd "wlan0" as an argument at the command line.

Noted.

> It would be nice to do the whole thing in 'c'. I looking at http://www.tcpdump.org/pcap.htm 
> though my 'c' skills are not great.

Nah; leave it as a shell script; it's the right impedance match.

> As for including WEP, that's a good idea. I have a WEP cracking page
> at http://barry.hrp.com/wireless.html but it would be nice to have a
> single program to do everything depending on command line options.

More my point was just, check the Beacon ID and grep through
$THE_RIGHT_PLACE for a key file that matches.  Remember, in wlan-ng, at
least, you have to already be pointing to the right setup file when you
insert the card.  Since you're bouncing the card, you can do that first.

Cheers,
-- jra
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