Aircrack for Atheros AR5007EG
by Jiang Yio on Apr.13, 2008, under Computing
Many people have had trouble getting their Atheros AR5007EG wireless devices to work on Linux, let alone getting it to inject data. There is a patch floating around on madwifi.org that allows operation on i386 machines using the MadWifi-ng driver.
I decided to take it a step further by applying the Aircrack-ng patch over the basic AR5007EG patch. Amazingly, it does work, and it works very well. I put the source package up for download here. Just unpack, make, and make install.
Remember, this is for 32-bit systems only. It enables support for the AR5007EG device and allows injection. With injection support, Aircrack-ng is a fun tool to try, as well as Airpwn. Stay legal and enjoy!
June 15, 2008: Cross-platform support is in the works! This is good news for owners of non-i386 systems.
July 29, 2008: This patch is now obsolete! Please refer to newer information.
October 10, 2008: Comments closed. Thank you, spammers.
May 9th, 2008 on 9:32 pm
Hallo!! ,
Great men ! … the only problem is the link is broken … I mean it doesn’t work any more ….please if you can email me the file I will be happy and grateful … thanks in advance
Francisco
May 9th, 2008 on 11:02 pm
Hey, I just tried the download link again. It still works. What happens when you try to download the file?
May 24th, 2008 on 12:55 pm
Hey, how do i unpack the patch under windows….
I have a AR5007EG and aircrack refuses to do –deauth or injection gives me an error…
help
Someone
May 24th, 2008 on 11:14 pm
@DragonKnight:
It’s a .tgz, so just use any tool that handles tar-gzip files. 7-Zip and WinZip both work. On *nix, it’s just “tar zxvf file.tgz”. If you want to apply the patch yourself, instructions can be found on aircrack-ng.org.
What kind of errors are you getting? You might be too far away from the access point. Experiment on your own network first, and refer to aircrack-ng.org for more information. I hope you’re not trying this on Windows, because there is little or no support under Windows.
Good luck!
June 28th, 2008 on 8:58 pm
Hi Jiang Yo may I ask where you purchased your Atheros AR5007EG device because I can’t find it on ebay, thanks
June 28th, 2008 on 11:43 pm
It came with my laptop, which I got from Circuit City.
July 24th, 2008 on 5:15 pm
Hi men, can you tell me how to install it? I have it already.
July 27th, 2008 on 1:21 am
[...] consumption now. The new driver supports both 32-bit and 64-bit environments, unlike the older 32-bit-only hack. As a bonus, I successfully patched the code for [...]
July 29th, 2008 on 12:51 pm
This patch is now obsolete! Please refer to http://www.inportb.com/2008/07/27/madwifi-support-for-ar5007-ar2425-with-injection-aircrack/