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Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution
The “Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution” is the base Slitaz cooking version plus the latest Aircrack-ng SVN version, wireless drivers patched for injection and other related tools. The custom distribution is especially tuned for the Acer Aspire One netbooks but will work well on virtually all desktops, notebooks and netbooks. It is extremely small (60meg), requires minimal memory and includes a rich set of programs.
This distribution is not intended to be all things to all people. Especially with respect to patched wireless drivers. Only a limited set of patched wireless drivers are included. If you own a card which uses one of these patched drivers then you are in luck. These are for cards which are personally owned and are known to work well. There are no plans to expand this list. If your particular card is not included then use Back Track which includes an exceedingly large number of patched drivers.
Slitaz home: http://www.slitaz.org/en/
The foundation is SliTaz which is a free micro GNU/Linux distro using BusyBox, a Linux kernel, and GNU free software. The goal of SliTaz is to have a GNU/Linux distro working in memory (RAM). Installable to a hard disk, with good support for French language web, it offers reliability, high performance and PC recycling. SliTaz boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the LightTPD web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client/server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, Alsaplayer, Gparted, a sound file editor and much more.
Summary of What Is Included:
Aircrack-ng 1.0 rc3 r1513 including sqlite airolib-ng support
madwifi-hal r3901 patched for injection (The new official HAL (0.10.5.6) supports AR5007EG (and AR5006EG) on 32 and 64 bit systems.)
madwifi-ng r3850 patched for injection
rt73 (ASPj rt73-k2wrlz-3.0.2) patched for injection
r8187 (rtl8187_linux_26.1010 for RTL8187L) patched for injection
mdk3 wireless tool
Wireshark
NMAP
Midnight Commander
General tools / compilers to do software development
See the Slitaz site for the list of standard packages / programs. The distribution is based on the 2.0 version of Slitaz plus updated packages to May 4/2009.
Download / Installation
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ISO MD5 a38acbf0cdc4d7f908f9e7000ff703f7
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Hard Disk: Run the CD or USB version and then startx. Click Menu –> System Tools –> SliTaz Installer and follow the prompts. If you have problems installing from USB, see the Slitaz site for workarounds.
User Accounts
HOWTO Hints
Custom Scripts Available
There are some custom scripts which can be run from the command line:
update-aircrack: Optionally, this allows you to download and install the latest version. A very recent SVN version is already installed so running this script is optional. It includes installing the required packages to download and compile the aircrack-ng suite.
update-ac: This is the same as update-aircrack-ng except it assumes the required packages have already been downloaded and installed.
startaaoath0: madwifi-hal.r3901
startath0: madwifi.r3850
startwlan0: RTL8187L
startrausb0: RT73
acpitool: The program compiled specifically for the AAO but it should work on other platforms. Use “acpitool -B” on the command line to get battery status.
To view the above, type “less /etc/motd.full” at the command line.
X Window (GUI)
If you login and type “startx” it will give you an XWindow environment which does allow you to open multiple console windows at the same time.
Alternatively, pressing ALT plus F1, F2, etc. will give you multiple login windows. Each F1, … is a separate login to run aircrack-ng commands or other linux commands. So you can have multiple programs running at the same time.
Disabling Console Messages
To disable kernel messages going to the console:
dmesg -n1
mac80211 drivers
The mac80211 version of the drivers are also included in the distribution (rtl8187, rt73usb and ath5k). They are not patched for injection. However, you want/need them for regular wireless use.
Troubleshooting Tips
Slow startup of Midnight Commander: If you are using the X Window (
GUI) environment then this should not be a problem. However, if you are using console sessions then enter “DISPLAY=” at the command line. Don't use this tip if you plan to run “startx” for a X Window (
GUI) environment.
USB Boot failure: When booting from a USB device, the symptom is that AAO hangs during the boot process. To resolve the problem, try a newer USB device. Some older USB devices fail to boot for some unknown reason.
Boot failure on SSD netbooks: When booting the LiveCD/USB on an AAO that uses a SSD instead of a hard disk, the symptom is that the AAO hangs during the boot process. To resolve the problem, remove the SSD from the AAO prior to booting.
How to get support?
For the Slitaz distribution:
For the Aircrack-ng component:
Release History
May 5/2009
Added mdk3 wireless tool
Updated aircrack-ng suite to SVN r1513
Updated all Slitaz packages as of May 4/2009. This is Slitaz 2.0. Unfortunately there is a lot of bloat in v2.0 and ISO has increased in size to about 55 meg.
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ISO MD5 a38acbf0cdc4d7f908f9e7000ff703f7
March 31/2009
February 11/2009
Dramatically reduced the size of the ISO to 43 meg.
Cosmetic fixes
Updated aircrack-ng suite to SVN r1394
Updated all Slitaz packages as of February 11/2009
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January 31/2009