Suggested hardware

[s***@tormail.org]

Hi. I'm looking to get a netbook or small laptop for FreeBSD. I've only
run it on servers and desktops in the past, so I'm unsure about some of
the hardware requirements. I'd like to be able to connect to wifi with no
auth, wep, wpa and wpa2 and be able to fully utilize the aircrack-ng suite
of tools. I need regular wifi, monitor mode/ahdemo and packet injection
working. Thankfully I saw this PR was added to the port:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/160564

Any suggestions for either a netbook or an add-on (usb maybe?) wireless
card would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:55:46 -0000

Post by s***@tormail.org
Hi. I'm looking to get a netbook or small laptop for FreeBSD. I've
only run it on servers and desktops in the past, so I'm unsure about
some of the hardware requirements. I'd like to be able to connect to
wifi with no auth, wep, wpa and wpa2 and be able to fully utilize the
aircrack-ng suite of tools. I need regular wifi, monitor mode/ahdemo
and packet injection working. Thankfully I saw this PR was added to
the port: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/160564
Any suggestions for either a netbook or an add-on (usb maybe?)
wireless card would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

with netbook you mean the low-cost machines?

Lenovo was a good pick for me.

Erich

[Adrian Chadd]

. anything with an Atheros PCI/PCIe chipset will work.

The only chipset I don't have support for atm is:

* AR5523, but i doubt you'll ever see this unless you still use cardbus;
* QCA9880 and derivates (11ac) - but that won't work at the moment and
likely won't do raw injection more for aircrack any time soon.

If there are bugs with ahdemo/packet injection then please file bugs
and participate on freebsd-wireless. I don't have time to debug that
stuff at the moment but I'd love to see ti work.

Thanks!


Adrian

Post by Erich Dollansky
Hi,
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:55:46 -0000

Post by s***@tormail.org
Hi. I'm looking to get a netbook or small laptop for FreeBSD. I've
only run it on servers and desktops in the past, so I'm unsure about
some of the hardware requirements. I'd like to be able to connect to
wifi with no auth, wep, wpa and wpa2 and be able to fully utilize the
aircrack-ng suite of tools. I need regular wifi, monitor mode/ahdemo
and packet injection working. Thankfully I saw this PR was added to
the port: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/160564
Any suggestions for either a netbook or an add-on (usb maybe?)
wireless card would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

with netbook you mean the low-cost machines?
Lenovo was a good pick for me.
Erich
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