I had to purchase a new wireless card because mine was not supported.
In most cases you will have to download a special driver designed for your wireless card to put it into monitor mode. In order to capture packets your wireless card must be able to go into monitor mode, not every driver or every wireless card supports monitor mode.
I will show you how to capture the correct type of packets.Īlso ONLY certain types of wireless cards can actually capture wireless packets. To capture packets (data from the network we are trying to crack) you must have the program running on your computer and you must capture about 200 000 or more IV packets (a special type of packet).
You will be using a program to capture packets and then use another program to analyze those packets and crack the key, thus allowing you to have access to their network. If it say WEP – good we can proceed, if it says anything else this tutorial wont help.įirst to understand what you will be doing. A little box will tell you the encryption. To find out if the network you want to crack is WEP encryption, simply view the wireless networks in the Connect to a network box and hold your mouse over the network of choice. WEP has been replaced by WPA encryption which is stronger but can still be cracked, just not as easily. Please read everything as it is all important.įirst you can only use this method to crack a WEP encrypted network. Hello, I know there are a lot of tutorials out there for how to crack a WEP encryption but being a vista user it took me a long time and a lot of clicking to get all of the information I needed and all of the files and programs so I am making this tutorial for Windows Vista users on how to hack or crack a WEP encrypted wireless network on Windows Vista, enjoy. I did not find a good resource on the net for Vista users so I decided to write my own tutorial, let me know what you think. I wanted to try and crack a wireless network and after a week or so of trying I finally got it. UniExtract (Universal Extractor) is one of the tools to do so.How to Hack a WEP Encrypted wireless network on Windows Vista Sometimes multiple times, such as when it is bundled with a WiFi manager. If the driver is packed in an executable (. In this example, the driver supports both PCI and USB Realtek devices, so, it will help narrow down what compatibility you have to look for on Linux. Scroll down and there will be lists of IDs that are supported by that driver. inf file needs to be opened in a text editor (supporting UTF-16). It doesn't really matter which version of Windows, the important information are some filenames (and content). In this case, the Windows driver of the AWUS036AC. It is very useful when searching for laptops that are too new to be in any search engine results. The exact same principles apply to internal devices, the only difference is they will be found under lspci.Īnother way to find the chipset/driver, after exhausting the options above, if you don't have the device itself is to download the driver. Multiple pages would be returned because multiple adapters share the same USB ID. Searching for that ID in WikiDevi or any search engine would also help finding the chipset and driver required. This is also displayed in WikiDevi: USB\VID_0BDA&PID_8812 (this is the same as the IDs on Linux, they're just uppercase and they contain some text around: USB device, VID stands for Vendor ID, PID stands for product ID).
If it were on Windows, even if the drivers were not installed, looking in the device manager, that ID would be found in Details pane of the device itself, in the property “Hardware IDs”. It also lists the IDs ( 0bda:8812) which is what would be returned on Linux with the lsusb command, right next to ID. The box on the right contain all the information needed to identify the chipset manufacturer and model. Searching for “Alfa AWUS036AC wikidevi” returns me this page on WikiDevi. This can be done by one or more of these techniques: You first need to determine what wireless chipset your card uses.
The next section describes the operating systems supported and limitations by chipset.
Knowing the wireless chipset manufacturer allows you to determine which operating systems are supported, software drivers you need and what limitations are associated with them. However, for our purposes, it is critical to know the wireless chipset manufacturer. This is because card manufacturers generally don't want to reveal what they use inside their card. Unfortunately, it is sometimes the hardest to determine. This is the most important company to know. The second manufacturer is who makes the wireless chipset within the card. There are many, many manufacturers beyond the examples give here. Examples of card manufacturers are Netgear, Ubiquiti, Linksys, Intel and D-Link. The first is the brand of the card itself. There are two manufacturers involved with wireless cards.