Re: testing laptop based on bsd anyone

["Robin Wood" <dninja () gmail com>]

The card is made by wlan, the chipset is atheros. I asked on the
wireless security list and people there agree that mac address
spoofing doesn't work with the current linux drivers so unfortunately
the linux based live cds are going to have the same problem. I'm
currently trying out FreeBSD 6 to see how well that copes.

On 3/8/06, Noe Espinoza Mancillas <nespinoza () grupowissen com> wrote:
> Hello Ribin,
>
> what's the chip of u wireless card?
> anyway.. i sugest to use whoppis or iwhax o backtrack.. that live cd's have
> a lot stuffs to make a wireless pen-test and the drivers for a couple
> wireless cards
>
> noe
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Wood" <dninja () gmail com>
> To: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:23 PM
> Subject: testing laptop based on bsd anyone
>
>
> Hi
> I'm having problems with wireless pen-tests due to the linux drivers
> for my wireless card and someone suggested trying one of the BSDs.
> Does anyone here use BSD as a base system for pen-testing from? I was
> going to go with FreeBSD as I have a little knowledge of it already.
> Any tips, tricks or gotchas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Robin
>
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