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--- troubleshooting [2006/11/19 16:12] – mister_x
+++ troubleshooting [2009/05/04 00:20] (current) – Update link to forum mister_x
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 ===== 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, SiS, non-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.
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 ===== I have a Prism2 card, but airodump-ng / aireplay-ng doesn't seem to work !  =====
-First step, make sure you aren't using the orinoco driver. If the interface name is wlan0, then the driver is HostAP or wlan-ng. However if the interface name is eth0 or eth1, then the driver is orinoco and you must disable the driver (use cardctl ident to know you card identifier, then edit /etc/pcmcia/config, replace orinoco_cs with hostap_cs and restart cardmgr).
+First step, make sure you aren't using the orinoco driver. If the interface name is wlan0, then the driver is HostAP or wlan-ng. However if the interface name is eth0 or eth1, then the driver is orinoco and you must disable the driver (on 2.4 kernels, use cardctl ident to know you card identifier, then edit /etc/pcmcia/config, replace orinoco_cs with hostap_cs and restart cardmgr; on 2.6 kernels, add "blacklist orinoco_cs" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist).
 Also, it can be a firmware problem. Old firmwares have trouble with test mode 0x0A (used by the HostAP / wlan-ng injection patches), so make sure yours is up to date (see [[prism2_flashing|Prism2 flashing]] for instructions). The recommended station firmware version is 1.7.4. If it doesn't work well (kismet or airodump-ng stalls after capturing a couple of packets), try STA 1.5.6 instead (either s1010506.hex for old Prism2 cards, or sf010506.hex for newer ones).
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 ===== 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.
+===== Why does my computer lock up when injecting packets? Is there a solution? ====
+See http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=901.0