Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, packet injection

[o0hex0o]

Anyone got this working yet ?

[warship45]

Nope i have spend days and days trying to find out the problem and get it fixed and still no luck, i still beleave it is the version of the driver but i cant seem to get it rolled back to a version that works.

[The Savage Killer]

I'm having the injection problem with my card as well. Any solutions yet? I'm using backtrack 4 pre btw.
Edit: the next kernel update should fix this.

[larryhaja]

I'm not sure what the kernel version of BT4 pre-final is but there is a regression in the iwlwifi driver that was introduced into the 2.6.30 kernel. It appears that Netroller3D has applied a patch that reverts back to the previous behavior. The patch can be found in this mail post.

SourceForge.net: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945): ipw3945-devel

[Jaylor]

hoping this is the right spot for my questions. i've seen the replys for posting in the wrong spots and well there amusing i'd rather not be the cause

right so the issues i am having is i have no ipwraw which is what i used in backtrack 3 i get

FATAL: Module ipwraw not found.

if i try

sudo wesside-ng -i wlan0

i get

ioctl(SIOCSIWMODE) failed: Device or resource busy

ARP linktype is set to 1 (Ethernet) - expected ARPHRD_IEEE80211,
ARPHRD_IEEE80211_FULL or ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM instead. Make
sure RFMON is enabled: run 'airmon-ng start wlan0 <#>'
Sysfs injection support was not found either.

as i am fairly new to bt and have only been using ubuntu for about a year i'm not sure what info might help so i'll leave it as is and answer with info as quickly as possible

[larryhaja]

@Jaylor: ipwraw is no longer included in BT4b and above. Use iwl3945 driver instead.

Next you need to put your card into monitor mode.

# airmon-ng start wlan0

This will create monitor interface mon0.

[Jaylor]

ok that works great. thank you! it brings me to another problem unfortunately which i can't seem to google a solution to. though i have found a few different pages about it i get: ERROR: Packet length changed while transmitting (42 instead of 30)
is wesside-ng worth using or is there a better approch to testing my wireless security?

mostly this is just for the fun of learning something new so well i appreciate the help don't let me annoy you with questions you feel are to simple.

Originally Posted by larryhaja

@Jaylor: ipwraw is no longer included in BT4b and above. Use iwl3945 driver instead.

Next you need to put your card into monitor mode.

# airmon-ng start wlan0

This will create monitor interface mon0.

[~LCF~]

Hi there !
I don't want to be a killjoy but this device has always been crap when it comes to injection. Some of the iwl3945 releases has been better than the others but that wildly depends on the computer manufacturer too (an Intel card in an HP laptop can perform injection whereas in a Dell it can't, that's what happened to me with BT4 Beta). Don't ask me why...

I think you'd save yourself some pain if you'd choose another chipset before you try to crack a WEP box...

[Jaylor]

Originally Posted by ~LCF~

Hi there !
I don't want to be a killjoy but this device has always been crap when it comes to injection. Some of the iwl3945 releases has been better than the others but that wildly depends on the computer manufacturer too (an Intel card in an HP laptop can perform injection whereas in a Dell it can't, that's what happened to me with BT4 Beta). Don't ask me why...

I think you'd save yourself some pain if you'd choose another chipset before you try to crack a WEP box...

thats the impression i got from using BT3 it never did finish getting through my belkin.
well i'll keep playing with it anyway. helps keep me busy

[eliv3n]

Download and install the kernel sources from BackTrack website:

wget hxxp://offensive-security.com/kernel.lzm && lzm2dir kernel.lzm /
mkdir drivers && cd drivers

install the enhanced injection drivers:

wget hxxp://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/ipwraw-ng-2.3.4-04022008.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf ipwraw-ng-2.3.4-04022008.tar.bz2
cd ipwraw-ng
make && make install
make install_ucode

blacklist ipwraw drivers from autostarting when computer boots:

echo “blacklist ipwraw” | tee /etc/modprobe.d/ipwraw

Initialize module dependencies:

depmod -ae

Now to be able to use the wireless card in monitor mode we must unload the intel drivers and load the new driver to support the packet injection by default set to monitor mode.

modprobe -r ipw3945
modprobe ipwraw

switch back to your normal drivers you can unload ipwraw and load ipw3945:

sudo modprobe -r ipwraw
sudo modprobe ipw3945