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  • In my opinion the best “OUT OF THE BOX” USB adapter is the Edimax EW7318 usg!  Simple…. plug it in and it works! No need to “PUT IT IN MONITOR MODE” it simply works in “MONITOR MODE” out of the box!  Injection is flawless! It also has hook-up for external Rp-sma antenna! Excellent for use with Yagi or strong omni set up!

 

 

 

 

EDIMAX EW-7318USG USB 2.0 Wireless LAN Hi-Gain Adapter – Retail

  • Standards: IEEE 802.11b/g

  • Data Rates: Up to 54Mbps

  • Security: 64/128/256-bit WEP Encryption, WPA ( TKIP, IEEE 802.1x) and AES

  • WPA/WPA2: WPA

  • Frequency Band: 2.4GHz – 2.4835GHz

  • Modulation: OFDM with BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM (11g) BPSK, QPSK, CCK (11b)

  • LEDs: Link/Activity

  • Transmitted Power: 16dBm (Typical)

  • Model #: EW-7318USG

  • Item #: N82E16833315075

  • Return Policy: Standard Return Policy

 

 

USB Dongles

Airlink101 AWLL3026

  • Driver : zydas

  • Chipset: zd1211rw

  • Nice USB Dongle. Inexpensive (<$10). Easy to antenna mod. Full capability and injection

ALFA Networks AWUS036E

  • Driver : rtl8187 (mac80211, kernel >=2.6.24)/r8187 (ieee80211, kernel <=2.6.24)

  • Chipset : Realtek 8187L

  • For Kismet, edit your Kismet.conf to “source=rt8180,wlan0,ALFA”

  • Notes : You can turn this device to go ~300mW but do be warned that this may damage your device. Also WPA under this mode is not supported.

ALFA Networks AWUS036H

  • Driver : rtl8187 (mac80211, kernel >=2.6.24)/r8187 (ieee80211, kernel <=2.6.24)

  • Chipset : Realtek 8187L

  • For Kismet, edit your Kismet.conf to “source=rt8180,wlan0,ALFA”

This card works out of the box including injection with BackTrack3.

  • Notes : There is a common misconception with regards to this device requiring two USB connectors. This device does not exactly need both USB connectors plugged in for it to work. The only reason why it was provided with two USB connectors is because of an instance whereby a person uses either an unpowered USB hub and/or the output from the computer’s USB port is inadequate (very rare case for computers to do that, most do power their USB ports) and with other USB devices hooked onto either the unpowered USB hub or computer’s USB ports there may not be enough power for the USB network dongle to work. So having the second USB connector plugged in gives the USB network dongle a slightly upper hand advantage in being provided with more power.

ALFA Networks AWUS036S

  • Driver : rt73

  • Chipset : Ralink RT73

This card works out of the box including injection with BackTrack3. You will need to ifconfig device up before you can set monitor mode, etc.

ASUS WL-167G

  • Driver : rt73 (older version rt2570)

  • Chipset : rt2571WF (older verson Ralink 2570)

Notice : Range is moderate but both monitor mode and injection work perfectly. Injects IV’s at a very slow rate (about 300-500 IV’s per minute), taking about 35 hours to collect 1,000,000 IV’s.

Update : Injection is faster under bt4 beta (300-400pps). Just need to ifconfig wlan0 up to use it.

AVM Fritz!Wlan USB V1.1

  • Driver : ndiswrapper

  • Chipset :Texas Instrument TNetW1450

  • Notice : NdisWrapper will never work with Aircrack-ng Suite

Notice : Works fine even with WPA/WPA2 encryption.Used ndiswrapper version 1.39 and the windows drivers from the cd.

Belkin F5D7050 V1

  • Driver : rt2570

  • Chipset : rt2571F

Worked fine upon boot. My version 3 card did not go into monitor mode.

Later versions (don’t know which ones) use the bcm43xx chipset from broadcom. ‘modprobe bcm43xx’ then ‘ifconfig -a’ you will see your adapter as ethX

    • It will not inject packets **

Belkin F5D7050 (4000 series)

  • Driver : zd1211rw

  • Chipset : zd1211b

Upon boot, works fine in monitor mode but doesn’t inject packets. However, if you patch the kernel following the instructions at [8], packet injection works great. After patching, all of the various attacks (fragementation, chopchop, arp replay, fakeauth) work fine with aircrack-ng.

Belkin F5D7050B

  • Driver : rt73

  • Chipset: Ralink 2570

Works fine on boot including packet injection.

  • Notes: FCC ID k75-f5d7050b is reported to not being able to detect APs, possibly due to different radio chip.

Belkin F5D7050E

  • Driver : rtl8180 (mac80211 stack)

  • Chipset: Realtek RTL8187B

  • FCCID  : K7SF5D7050E

You will need compat-wireless2.6 along with rtl8180 driver to get this working.

Belkin F5D7051

  • Driver : rt73+rt2570/rndis_wlan (mac80211_stack)

  • Chipset: rt2570/bcm4320

Belkin have changed the chipset that they use in the usb adapters apparently. They now use the bcm4320 chipset instead of the rt2570. The bcm4320 drivers will only work with rndis_wlan which requires mac80211. There will probably be no support for rndis_wlan in terms of monitoring/injecting.

Owners of the older version of the hardware (with rt2570) are recommended to use serialmonkey’s/ASPj’s driver which should already be included in the backtrack.

Buffalo Airstation G54 WLI-U2-KG54-AI (2A)

  • Driver : rt2570

  • Chipset : Ralink 2570

Chiefmax

  • Driver : RT73

  • Chipset : rt2571WF

D-Link DWL 122 (USB) F/W 3.2.1 H/W A1

  • Driver : wlan-ng

  • Chipset : prism 2.5

  • Notice : There are drivers for injection however they only work on 2.6.11 kernels or older.

D-Link DWL G122 (USB) F/W 2.03 B1

  • Driver : rt2570

  • Chipset : Ralink 2570

  • lsusb : Bus 1 Device 3: ID 2001:3c00 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-G122 802.11g rev. B1 [ralink]

  • Notice : rev. C1 uses [ralink] RT73

This dongle must be tweaked if u want to inject with it. Additionally, its covering is very limited, recommended a cantenna!!!

Rev B1 users read here VERY IMPORTANT (credit goes to allelectrix from aircrack-ng forum)

D-Link WUA-1340

Edimax EW-7317UG

  • Driver: zd1211rw

  • Chipset: zd1211

  • Notice: After updating aircrack suite to aircrack-ng 1.0 dev. Monitor mode and packet injection supported.

Edimax EW-7318USG

Hawking HWUG1

  • Driver: rt73

  • Chipset: ralink

  • Injection and monitor mode work fine, just have to “ifconfig rausb0 up” and it works

Hawking HWU8DD

  • Driver: Rev. A: unknown Rev.B: zd1211rw

  • Chipset: Rev. A: zd1211 (not supported) Rev. B: zd1211b (supported)

  • lsusb: Rev. A: unknown Rev. B: 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi?

  • Credits: Talkie Toaster/openxs

The only way to tell the difference between Rev. A and Rev B. is by the sticker on the actual device (on the bottom) or the actual CD. Apart from that, on the box/packaging it would have vista ready sticker for Rev. B

Linksys WUSB54g v4

  • Driver : rt2570

  • Chipset : Ralink 2570

No problems with any injection (kismet, airodump…). Very good USB dongle.

Does not capture WPA/WPA2 handshake.Update driver to v.1.6.0

Extremely easy to antenna mod.

Linksys WUSB54g v4 users read here VERY IMPORTANT (credit goes to allelectrix from aircrack-ng forum)

Linksys WUSB54GC

  • Driver : RT73

  • Chipset : Ralink Technology, Corp. 802.11b/g WiFi

  • Notice 1: The interface is named rausb0, not eth0 or ath0 etc.

  • Notice 2: Built-in [BackTrack] Driver does not support fragmentation attack; however, the following driver does:

http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1.tar.bz2

Needs activation before use

  bt ~ # ifconfig rausb0 up  bt ~ # iwconfig rausb0 mode monitor

Everything works out of the BT3 box!

Linksys WUSB600N

  • Driver : rt2870 (modified by hirte and nemesis)

  • Chipset : Ralink rt2870 a/b/g/n

You will need kernel.lzm and to compile the included driver from the link above.

MicroEdge MEG55A Wireless-G USB Dongle

  • Driver : rt2570

  • Chipset : Ralink rt2570

  • Notice : Works fine out of the box. airmon-ng start rausb0 kicked straight into monitor mode, successfully reinjects packets while monitoring.

NetGear MA111

  • Driver : wlan-ng (requires patched version which cannot be used on kernels > 2.6.20)

  • Chipset : Intersil Prism 2.5

  • FCC ID: PY3MA111 (links to M4Y-00735)

  • lsusb: 0846:4110

This is a very old device that will never be supported for the time being. Users can read here

NetGear WG111v2

  • Driver : rtl8187 (mac80211, kernel >=2.6.24)/r8187 (ieee80211, kernel <=2.6.24) // p54 (mac80211)

  • Chipset : Realtek RTL-8187L // Intersil-Conexant GW3887

  • FCC ID : PY305400026 // PY3WG111V2

Be careful not all wg111v2 sticks have the realtek chipset the v2 with the word netgear set into the stick. To verify the differences, type `lsusb’ when you have the device connected. Apparently, older versions of this card is equipped with Conexant and the later versions are with Realtek. There has been no easy way of identifying the difference between the two apart from checking the FCC ID or via plugging it in.

  • USB ID: 0846:6a00 is Realtek RTL-8187L chipset

  • USB ID: 0846:4240 is Intersil/Conexant GW3887 chipset

  • RTL8187L users : Drivers are available on the forum however the range on this card in my opinion is poor.

  • GW3887 users : Use p54usb driver. You will need firmware for this and the current status for monitoring/injection is unknown.

NetGear WG111T

  • Driver : ndiswrapper

  • Chipset : Atheros AR2112A-00

  • FCC ID: PY3WG111T

  • Notice : NdisWrapper will never work with Aircrack-ng Suite

You can breath life to your small USB-WG111T by doing the next steps:1)Download and extract the driver (using wine?) from NetgearAs of 2008-03-29, driver 2.1 is here: http://kbserver.netgear.com/release_notes/d103172.asp2)change to root shell 'sudo su -'3)rmmod ndiswrapper4)ndiswrapper -i netwg11t.inf4)modprobe ndiswrapper5)iwconfig

Netopia ter/gusb-e

  • Driver : rt2570

  • Chipset : Ralink Technology, Corp. 802.11g WiFi

  • Notice : works fine as i know

OvisLink Evo-w54usb

  • Driver : rt2570

  • Chipset : Ralink 2570

  • Notice : injection works, just have to “ifconfig rausb0 up” before anything

Rosewill RNX-G1(W)

  • Driver : rtl8187 (mac80211, kernel >=2.6.24)/r8187 (ieee80211, kernel <=2.6.24)

  • Chipset : Realtek 8187L

  • Notice : Works right out of the box on BT2 and BT3, enable monitor mode with airmon-ng.

SafeCom SWMULZ-5400

  • Driver : zd1211rw

  • Chipset : zd1211b

  • Notice : Works with packet injection with new patch found in aircrack-ng 0.8

TP-Link TL-WN321G

  • Driver : rt73

  • Chipset : Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501USB Wireless Adapter

  • Notice : At first I plugged this in to my computer,and it didn’t work. airodump-ng rausb0 showed no APs detected. Updating to the latest driver made this work. Once I got this card working, it detected more AP’s than my WMP54G and my Netgear WG111v2, injected as well as either, but did not report Power properly.

Here are the steps to update the driver and make this card work:

Download the latest driver from http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/
As of 2009-04-16, the latest driver is 3.0.2

http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/rt73-k2wrlz-3.0.2.tar.bz2

ifconfig rausb0 down
airdriver-ng remove 31
tar xvjf rt73-k2wrlz-3.0.2.tar.bz2
cd rt73*/Module
make
make install
modprobe rt73
ifconfig rausb0 up

WL-USB-RSMA

  • Driver: zd1211rw

  • Chipset zd1211b

  • lsusb: 0ace:1215

  • FCC ID: ???

Tested to work on bt2 and bt3. With bt2 there’s issues with airodump-ng as it sometimes output garbled letters in various fields notably in the ESSID section. In bt3 the issue is fixed but it drops the packets out instead of properly processing them, something to do with rate limiting.

ZyDAS 1211

  • Driver : zd1211rw

  • Chipset : ZyDAS Chipset

  • Notice 1 (properly for BT2): For basic functionality, you need to get the firmware from [here], untar it to /usr/lib/firmware/ – reinsert the card and the firmware should load OK. Addendum: I had to unzip to /lib/firmware/zd1211, but after that it worked fine.

  • Notice 2 (for BT3): Test with 1211b / Lutec USB Stick:

Works out of the box in monitoring mode, runs as eth1 (on my box, yours may differ). Injection is possible without any driver or kernel modding, but ONLY with SpoonWEPs POS801 attack (didn´t find the according aireplay mode, airreplay standalone DID NOT work!). Besides, for me WEP cracking did only work like this – but then without any problems:

 

***For a much more indepth list*** go here...

Edimax EW7318 usg!

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