Broadcom 43xx wireless on FreeBSD 7

FreeBSD is one of the most awesome UNIX-like operating systems available. It even works on laptops, just not very well on mine. I own an Acer Extensa 5220, a major el-cheapo piece of kit containing a Broadcom 4311 wireless LAN card. These same cards are known to appear in Dell laptops as 1390 cards. Finally, after a week of fiddling, I got this card to work natively on FreeBSD 7.

Quick Guide to FreeBSD hostap for FreeBSD 8

"I have a need to setup an access point. Many of the discussions on the web include all kinds of extra goodies that one normally sets up with the access point. But I just needed an access point: no dhcp, bridging, etc. Here's how I did it."

Quick Guide to FreeBSD hostap for FreeBSD 8

"I have a need to setup an access point. Many of the discussions on the web include all kinds of extra goodies that one normally sets up with the
access point. But I just needed an access point: no dhcp, bridging, etc. Here's how I did it."

WLAN thru NDIS wrapper in Linux

"Ok,what is this NDISwrapper ?

This is the software in linux that uses windows network driver in linux for configuration of wlan."

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Connect to a WPA-PSK wireless network on Slax

Here is a short tutorial in how to connect it to my WPA-PSK protected wireless network.

Secure Your Home Wi-Fi Network

Tech site Ars Technica runs down the basics of securing your home wireless network with the most secure and up-to-date methods. The main takeaway is that when you enable encryption on your wireless router, use WPA encryption instead of WEP, because it's better and stronger.

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How to Crack WPA/WPA2

This tutorial walks you through cracking WPA/WPA2 networks which use pre-shared keys.

WPA/WPA2 Support in OpenBSD

Damien Bergamini (damien@) just committed WPA-support for OpenBSD. In the commit message, Damien states that "bwi(4), malo(4), ral(4), iwn(4), wpi(4), ural(4), rum(4), upgt(4), and zyd(4) should work." And, Damien says "support for more chipsets should arrive soon."

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Live Linux Wireless and Security Distributions

Listed are some of the more Wireless and Penetration Testing specific Linux distros available.

How to Setup a Wireless Ubuntu Router

"This morning I was moving some stuff around and my router fell, smashing to pieces. Oh no! I need a wireless connection today. The router was a noisy (the fan drives you crazy) older (but faithful) boat anchor. I was in a pinch, with no time to buy a new one. So, I thought a quicker (and for me “fun”), fix would be to set up a temporary router on an old PC."

Keep Your Wi-Fi Going Strong

The Web Worker Daily weblog suggests several methods to keep your router performing and your wireless internet strong. The post offers several tips for how to improve your wireless network, from performing a cycled reboot when things aren't working correctly to adding access points to boost get your signal to every corner of your home.

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Using a Bluetooth phone with Linux

My old mobile phone, which was held together with duct tape for the last few months of its sad existence, has finally been replaced with something more modern. I wanted to pick up a programmable, Linux-based phone like the RAZR2V8 or the FIC Neo1973, but I'm unfortunately a Verizon customer, which means that my options are currently very, very limited—at least until Verizon follows through with its open network plans. I ended up grabbing a vx8550, which is Verizon's rebranded (and, of course, crippled) LG Chocolate. This is the first phone I have ever owned that actually has Bluetooth support, so I spent some time yesterday learning how to use Bluetooth on Linux. This is a short overview of what I discovered.

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Boost Your Wi-Fi Antenna for Less than a Dollar

"After taking apart a $30 "extender" Wi-Fi router antenna, one intrepid video blogger posted a guide to making the same thing with remarkably cheap stuff."

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Secure a Wireless LAN

Take your mouse and hover it over the Wifi icon in the bottom right of your computer screen. Go ahead, do it. It will show you the name of your wireless network. If you're like 80% of Wifi users, the wireless network you are connected to is titled something like, "Linksys (Unsecured)" or "Default (Unsecured)".

An unsecured wireless network is an open invitation to hackers to walk right in to your computer and steal your personal information, upload malware onto your computer, and otherwise terrorize you. Thankfully, securing your Wifi connection is extraordinarily simple to do. In this article we cover 10 simple steps that will take your wireless network from being a welcome beacon to hackers to the wi-fi equivalent of Fort Knox. So let's get started…

Netgear KWGR614: el router wireless Open Source

El router wireless KWGR614 muestra del compromiso de Netgear con la comunidad de Software Libre: está diseñado para que desarrolladores y aficionados a la programación en Linux puedan modificar las características internas y personalizar el router a su gusto. Por ejemplo, podrán crear un interfaz de consola, desarrollar aplicaciones o añadir parámetros y crear nuevas funciones para ellos.

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Two tools for enabling wireless cards

No other hardware nowadays supports GNU/Linux as weakly as wireless network adapters. Between the constant release of new models and major vendors who are uninterested in supporting the operating system, free drivers for wireless cards are next to impossible to reverse engineer. Nor can you find many retailers willing to customize laptops as readily as they do workstations. In this situation, ndiswrapper and the Broadcom firmware cutter provide a functional, if not always satisfactory, solution.

Webmail accounts hacked via WLAN

It has been recognised for some time now that it is a bad idea to check your emails through an unencrypted WLAN hotspot. If the information is unencrypted, an attacker can, for example, hijack the log-in information for webmail or POP3 accounts. However, this can be accomplished with even less effort, as demonstrated by Robert Graham of Errata Security at the Black Hat Conference. In order to hijack a Gmail account, for example, an attacker can simply read the connected victim’s cookies and use this information for logging in later. It is thus no longer necessary to find out the login name and password.

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Managing wireless connections seamlessly with wicd

The nature of my work forces me to be something of a digital nomad -- my notebook computer and a wireless connection are essential parts of my working day. I've been known to move between several wireless access points in one day. While I've had never had any problems with the wireless cards in my Linux-powered notebooks, most of the wireless connection tools I've used have fallen a bit flat. One of the few wireless connection managers that I've actually found useful is wicd -- the Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, pronounced "wicked." It's a lot like the Windows wireless network connection tool in both appearance and ease of use.

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Create a fake Wireless Access Point

If one access point is good, 53,000 must be better.

Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables.

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New kernel brings better wireless support

In Linus Torvalds' words, "Not a whole lot of changes since -rc7," but the more significant upgrades in kernel release 2.6.22, announced over the weekend, include a new wireless stack, a new FireWire stack, and a new SLAB allocator for more efficient memory management.

"For too many years, Linux wireless support has worked, but not very well," according to the folks at Linux Kernel Newbies. "2.6.22 has a completely new, better wireless stack included."

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