Testing procedures for a good WiFi card

[irongeek at irongeek.com (Adrian Crenshaw)]

Sounds good, but how would I test it? Something simple from the command line
of a Backtrack boot cd.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Karl Schuttler <rexykik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Test master mode too
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >      Since it can be a pain to find a good WiFi card, what with vendors
> > changing chip sets so often, I thought maybe should do a video on
> selecting
> > a good card. For example, you are thinking of buying a used one from a
> > friend, but wish for an easy way to test it first. What would be good
> > testing procedures should I run them through?
> >
> > Obviously, test monitor mode with:
> >
> > ifconfig wlan0 down
> > iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor channel 9
> > ifconfig wlan0 up
> > tcpdump -i wlan0 -s 0 -w /media/mmc1/montest.pcap
> >
> > or
> >
> > airmon-ng <start|stop> <interface> [channel]
> >
> > Then test injection with:
> >
> > aireplay-ng -9 <interface>
> >
> > What else?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> >
> >
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