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Wireless Card for Pen Testing

  • 12-04-2007 11:55am
    #1
    ve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭


    I am doing some pen testing for the company that I work for and need a decent PCMCIA card to tackle this with. They've installed some wireless nodes on the LAN and it's my job to see what I can do from outside the perimeter.

    I always thought that the Orinoco Gold cards were the way to go. But I see that they have changed from Lucent to Proxim, and I keep seeing people mention "classic" Orinoco cards when making a fuss. Are the ones available today not any good or what.

    I definately need a card that will play very well under Linux (passive scanning, etc). I also want to be able to attach an antena.

    I also hear people on about Prism chipsets and their support under Linux. So I'm a bit confused as to what is good and what isn't.

    The price of the card is not a problem as the company will be paying for it. A mate was talking to me just there and he still thinks we should go for the Orinoco: http://www.expansys.ie/p.aspx?i=106141

    Is this a good deal/idea?

    Appreciate any help you can offer, cheers.


Comments

  • #2
    NutJob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭NutJob


    I use that exact card and works so well i bought a pcmcia adapter for my desktop pc to use it.

    Great internal antenna and has a connector for an external antenna. paid less for it than that though off e-bay

    works with aircrack-ng after patching madwifi drivers.
    Kismit was a breeze


    if you want to go crazy and your not worried about budget a ubiquity cards are highly recommended
    http://www.keenansystems.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=150&osCsid=a628bba9df110030e08123591361c366

    edit:spell checked


  • #3
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    I've been working on something similar recently using the BackTrack 2 Live CD.

    Out of the box, the D-Link DWL-G122 (ver b1 or c1) USB device works flawlessly with a decent range, there are instructions about for connecting an external antenna if you require. This uses a Ralink 2570 chipset which supports injection and monitor mode without special drivers.

    For PCMCIA I use a Netgear WAG511 Dual standard card (802.11 a/b/g) which is Atheros based and needs the MadWifi Driver to enable monitor mode and also supports injection.

    The weapons of choice are (software) :

    Aircrack-ng This page provides a fairly up-to-date list of compatible devices supported under Linux plus all the apps needed for wireless surveillance. These apps are included in the CD mentioned above.

    Airsnort

    Kismet

    WiCrawl (Handy plugins feature and GUI)

    ZEN


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