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troubleshooting [2006/11/19 16:12] mister_xtroubleshooting [2009/03/24 00:58] – Convert to wikilink. netrolller3d
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   * Something is wrong with your card (firmware problem ?)    * Something is wrong with your card (firmware problem ?) 
   * **By the way, beacons are just unencrypted announcement packets. They're totally useless for WEP cracking.**    * **By the way, beacons are just unencrypted announcement packets. They're totally useless for WEP cracking.** 
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 ===== I can't inject packets  ===== ===== I can't inject packets  =====
-As a reminder, you can't inject with a **Centrino, Hermes, ACX1xx, Aironet, ZyDAS, Marvell or Broadcom** chipset because of firmware and/or driver limitations.\\ +As a reminder, you can't inject with a **Hermes, Aironet, SiSnon-USB Marvell or [[b43|some Broadcom]]** chipset because of firmware and/or driver limitations.\\ 
-Note: You can't inject with OpenWrt devices ([[http://openwrt.org/?p=29|This news]]  is an april fool, see posted date)+Note: You can't inject with OpenWrt devices ([[http://openwrt.org/?p=29|This news]] is an april fool, see post date). (Possibly AR7-based devices can inject using the acx-mac80211 driver, however that driver has no master mode support, and is not included in the official builds.)
  
-If you chipset supports injection, you can try the following: +If your chipset supports injection, you can try the following: 
  
   * Be closer (but not too much, it will be explained later) to the Access Point.    * Be closer (but not too much, it will be explained later) to the Access Point. 
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 ===== Why aircrack-ng stalls while reading a .ivs file and does not start cracking ?  ===== ===== Why aircrack-ng stalls while reading a .ivs file and does not start cracking ?  =====
 Your .ivs file may have been corrupted if you used pcap2ivs. Read previous point.  Your .ivs file may have been corrupted if you used pcap2ivs. Read previous point. 
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 ===== Why does airodump-ng stop capturing packets after a few seconds ?  ===== ===== Why does airodump-ng stop capturing packets after a few seconds ?  =====
  
-[[http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/|wpa_supplicant]] may be running and try to get connected to an Access Point. You should stop it before running airodump-ng.+[[http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/|wpa_supplicant]] or a network manager may be running and try to get connected to an Access Point. You should stop it before running airodump-ng. 
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 +===== Why does my computer locks up when injecting packets ? Is there a solution? ==== 
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 +See http://tinyshell.be/aircrackng/forum/index.php?topic=901.0
troubleshooting.txt · Last modified: 2009/05/04 00:20 by mister_x