Tutorial: Getting Started

[darkAudax]

New tutorial: http://aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=getting_started

 Many people ask “How do I get started?”. This tutorial is intended to answer that question.

It is not intended to be a detailed “How To” tutorial, rather it is a road map to get you from where you are to the desired destination of using aircrack-ng. Once you get going, there is huge abundance of materials on the wiki describing the tools in great detail and tutorials for various tasks.

This tutorial is focused on linux. Yes, I realize that linux is a problem for many people. Unfortunately Microsoft Windows simply does a poor job supporting the aircrack-ng suite. This is primarily due to the proprietary nature of the operating system and wireless card drivers. See Tutorial: Aircrack-ng Suite under Windows for Dummies for more details. Bottom line, don't use the aircrack-ng suite under Windows. There is little or no support for it.

The basic process consists of three steps:

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      Determine the chipset in your wireless card
    *
      Determine which of the three options you will use to run the aircrack-ng suite
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      Get started using the aircrack-ng suite

The first step of determining the wireless card chipset is covered in the “Determining the Wireless Card Chipset” section below.

Next, you need to decide which of three options you will use to run the aircrack-ng suite. The three options are:

   1.
      Linux distribution of your choice plus the aircrack-ng suite
   2.
      Live CD which contains a version of the aircrack-ng suite
   3.
      VMWare image which contains a version of the aircrack-ng suite

There is a section below describing each option in more detail plus the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Finally, once you have aircrack-ng running, follow the “Using Aircrack-ng Suite” section below.

If you have problems, see the “Resources” section.

Please send me any constructive feedback, positive or negative.

Have fun!

d.

[ASPj]

Great

Thanks to you we now have more Documentation than Code 

[budiono6969]

Thanks for the tutorial given. I'm a newbie and eager to learn more about how to protect my office wifi from being harmfully attacked. Again thanks a lot!

[dkoehl]

im still confused .. i have no idea what any of this means .. im on vacation right now at my aunt and uncles house and they can not remember the password for the internet for the life of them .. so i googled a way to like get a universal password or something like that, this is what came up and i downloaded it and now im lost . no idea at all what so ever what to do next and yes i did read the tutorial and no idea . please help asap !!!! i want to get on my laptop !!!

[Zermelo]

im still confused .. i have no idea what any of this means .. im on vacation right now at my aunt and uncles house and they can not remember the password for the internet for the life of them .. so i googled a way to like get a universal password or something like that, this is what came up and i downloaded it and now im lost . no idea at all what so ever what to do next and yes i did read the tutorial and no idea . please help asap !!!! i want to get on my laptop !!!

The tutorials are written in the most basic fashion.  Many, Many, people have used them successfully.  No one is going to walk you through this - that is why the tutorials are written.  If you can't understand the tutorials, then perhaps you need to find another piece of software for your needs.

[Mister_X]

The easiest way is nearly always to reset the AP (check in the manual how to reset it to factory default or use google if you don't have the manual anymore).

[Joeyw]

im still confused .. i have no idea what any of this means .. im on vacation right now at my aunt and uncles house and they can not remember the password for the internet for the life of them .. so i googled a way to like get a universal password or something like that, this is what came up and i downloaded it and now im lost . no idea at all what so ever what to do next and yes i did read the tutorial and no idea . please help asap !!!! i want to get on my laptop !!!

The tutorials are written in the most basic fashion.  Many, Many, people have used them successfully.  No one is going to walk you through this - that is why the tutorials are written.  If you can't understand the tutorials, then perhaps you need to find another piece of software for your needs.

The tutorials are too basic.

[Zermelo]

The tutorials are too basic.

Considering you keep posting about how bad the forums and wiki are, how are the tutorials TOO basic??  Anyway, no one is going to re-write the tutorials for you, or give you step by step instructions on this forum.  Seriously, I suggest you try another forum where they will take the time and walk you through your needs.  Try the Wireless Networking section of the "Taz forum".  Seriously, the people there will give you the type of help you're looking for.

[Joeyw]

What is the link?   

[Zermelo]

What is the link?   

You could have just gogled it, but here it is:

http://tazforum.thetazzone.com/viewforum.php?f=54