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--- mac80211 [2009/06/27 00:16] – A user in the forum has reported success with ar9170. netrolller3d
+++ mac80211 [2017/01/09 21:44] (current) – Updated link to zd1211rw mister_x
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+====== DEPRECATED ======
+See [[install_drivers|Installing Drivers]] for updated information.
 =====General=====
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 The following drivers use mac80211 (not all have been tested to work with aircrack-ng):
-  * [[acx1xx]] (Acx)
+  * [[acx1xx]] (Texas Instruments ACX1XX series)
   * [[adm8211]] (ADMtek)
   * [[agnx]] (Airgo MIMO)
-  * [[ar9170]] (Atheros xspaN USB, does not support non-xspaN devices)
+  * [[ar5523]] (Atheros A/B/G/Super-G USB)
+  * [[ar9170]] (replaced by carl9170)
+  * [[carl9170]] (Atheros xspaN USB - AR9001 and AR9002)
   * [[at76c50x_usb]] (Atmel)
   * [[ath5k]] (Atheros A/B/G/Super-G)
   * [[ath9k]] (Atheros xspaN)
-  * [[b43]] and b43legacy (Broadcom)
+  * [[ath9k_htc]] (Atheros AR9001 and AR9002 family)
-  * [[iwl3945]] (not to be confused with ipw3945/ipwraw)
+  * [[b43]] and b43legacy (Broadcom legacy)
-  * [[iwlagn]] (formerly iwl4965)
+  * [[brcm80211]] (Broadcom 802.11n - **does not currently allow capturing data packets!**)
+  * [[iwl3945]] (not to be confused with [[ipw3945]]/[[ipw3945|ipwraw]])
+  * [[iwlagn]] (formerly [[iwl4965]])
   * [[libertas_tf]] (Marvell Libertas)
   * [[mac80211_hwsim]] (HW simulator for mac80211 testing)
   * [[mwl8k]] (Marvell TopDog)
-  * [[p54]] (PrismGT in SoftMAC mode, but also supports FullMAC cards)
+  * [[orinoco]] (Including USB PCI devices)
+  * [[p54]] (PrismGT in SoftMAC mode, but also supports FullMAC cards as well as PrismGT dongles. Not to be confused with [[prism54]])
   * [[rt2x00]] (includes rt2400pci, rt2500pci, rt2500usb, rt2800usb, rt61pci and rt73usb)
-  * [[rtl8180]] (not to be confused with r8180 AKA r8180-sa2400, also supports RTL8185 cards)
+  * [[rtl8180]] (not to be confused with r8180 AKA [[r8180-sa2400]], also supports RTL8185 cards)
   * [[rtl8187]] (not to be confused with r8187 - RTL8187B supported in 2.6.27+)
   * [[stlc45xx]] (modified PrismGT SoftMAC)
   * [[w35und]] (Winbond USB)
   * [[wl12xx]] (TI WL125x/WL127x)
-  * [[zd1211rw-mac80211|zd1211rw]] (starting with 2.6.25)
+  * [[zd1211rw|zd1211rw]] (starting with 2.6.25)
 In general, these drivers will mostly work with aircrack-ng, but there may be exceptions.  Here is a list of drivers (with appropriate patches) that people have reported as working successfully with the aircrack-ng suite:
-  * [[acx1xx]] (Acx)
+  * [[acx1xx]] (Texas Instruments ACX1XX)
   * [[ar9170]] (channel hopping is broken)
   * [[ath5k]]
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   * [[rtl8180]]
   * [[rtl8187]]
-  * [[zd1211rw-mac80211|zd1211rw]] (no fragmentation attack support)
+  * [[zd1211rw|zd1211rw]] (no fragmentation attack support)
 =====Aircrack support=====
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   * For kernels 2.6.24 and 2.6.25, use [[http://www.latinsud.com/bcm/mac80211_2.6.24.4_frag.patch|LatinSuD's fragmentation patch]].
-  * For 2.6.26, use [[http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211_2.6.25-wl_frag.patch|this patch]].
+  * For 2.6.26, use [[http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211_2.6.26-wl_frag.patch|this patch]].
   * For 2.6.28+ and the latest wireless-testing kernel (currently 2.6.30-rc6-wl), use [[http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211_2.6.28-rc4-wl_frag+ack_v3.patch|this updated patch]].
   * For 2.6.27, use this [[http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211_2.6.27_frag+ack_v2.patch|backport of the 2.6.28 patch]].
   * For compat-wireless packages, apply the wireless-testing patch to the compat-wireless package itself. Compat-wireless-2.6 currently needs the 2.6.28 patch, while compat-wireless-old can be used with the 2.6.27 one.
-  * For 2.6.29 & 2.6.30-rcX, some drivers need [[http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211-2.6.29-fix-tx-ctl-no-ack-retry-count.patch|an additional patch]] on top of the 2.6.28 patch. This is not needed in wireless-testing/compat-wireless, and will not be needed in 2.6.31.
+  * For 2.6.29 & 2.6.30, some drivers need [[http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211-2.6.29-fix-tx-ctl-no-ack-retry-count.patch|an additional patch]] on top of the 2.6.28 patch. This fix is already included in 2.6.31 and newer kernels, so this patch should only be used up to 2.6.30.
 **IMPORTANT: The fix-tx-ctl-no-ack patch is NOT a replacement for the fragmentation patch, it is an additional patch that some drivers require in addition to the fragmentation patch.**
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 Airmon-ng supports mac80211's interface management features (nl80211) using a tool called **iw** (not to be confused with iwconfig). iw is called automatically by the airmon-ng script, or you might also call it directly to set up monitor interfaces.
-Iw is not part of the aircrack-ng suite.  You can download it from [[http://wireless.kernel.org/download/iw/|here]]. Choose the latest version, or at least 0.9.5. Iw requires a recent version of libnl (1.0-pre8 minimum, 1.1 recommended).
+Iw is not part of the aircrack-ng suite.  You can download it from [[http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/iw/|here]]. Choose the latest version, or at least 0.9.5. Iw requires a recent version of libnl (1.0-pre8 minimum, 1.1 recommended).
 ====Installing iw====
-  - Download [[http://wireless.kernel.org/download/iw/|iw]] (look for the latest version).
+  - Download [[http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/iw/|iw]] (look for the latest version).
   - Extract the iw tarball.
   - Run "make" in the iw directory. If you get lots of "undefined" errors or "netlink/genl/genl.h: No such file of directory", then you need to install libnl-devel, or update libnl. **This can be risky, you might also need to update networkmanager, wpa_supplicant, hostapd and wlassistant, as older versions of them only work with 1.0-pre6 and earlier!**