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Re: Wireless cards
From: rusty chiles <rustychiles () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:05:14 -0700
Instead of focusing on the card brand / type I would reccomend you focus on the chipset, The Recieve Sensitvity, and the underlying driver level support. There is a good list of cards and recieve sensitivity at http://wiki.freenetworks.org/index.cgi/ReceiveSensitivity Out of all the linux drivers the best of the bunch are the hostap drivers. They support RF monitor, and other Injection functions that many of the linux pentesting / wireless tools out there require. ALL prism2.x based cards should be supported by hostap. That said I would reccomend that you get yourself a prism2.x based wlan card. The Senao SL-2511plus ext2 is an excellent card. It has DUAL MMCX antenna connectors on board. It outputs 200mW of power and has excellent recieve sensitivity. The downside, no integrated antenna. You MUST use an external antenna at all times. The SMC2532W-B card is also excellent. It has a detachable antenna that reveals 2 RP-MMCX connectors. The antenna and connectors are very "flimsy" on this card, so if you do pick one up be careful. Also, note that the regular SMC cards are not that great, you'll only want the 2532W-B. Demarctec also makes some prism2.x based cards with excellent recieve sensitivity, external antenna jacks, and over 300mW power output. The downside, is that they cost a bit more than other cards. The forementioned Orinoco Gold Classic card, which has several varaints also works well under linux, has an external antenna jack; however the recieve sensitivity is not quite as good as that of the Senao, SMC Eliteconnect, or Demarctec cards. It is also not supported by the hostap driver, although you can make it support RFMON mode via a patch. The upside, you can find the non orinoco branded clone cards for dirt cheap on ebay under the names avaya gold, enterasys, agere, etc. I recently picked up some avaya silver cards (which I then flashed into gold cards) for $5 each on ebay. These cards have MC Card style antenna connectors. Everything said I'd reccomend looking at the recieve sensitivity chart I referenced above, choosing one of the prism2.x based Cards with better recieve sensitvity and antenna jacks, and downloading and installing the HOSTAP drivers. That should cover you for kismet, and other linux wireless tools that require RF monitor mode and much more. On 5/13/05, Michael C. McDonnell <michael () carolinatechservices com> wrote:
I'm trying to find a wireless card for my laptop with an external antenna jack and linux drivers but the linux part is eliminating every one I have seen. Suggestions...? Mike McD
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