Kismac on a Macbook
So today I decided I wanted to actually sit down and figure out why I can’t use Kismac on my MacBook like how it could be used on the previous generation. The answer was simple: new chip-set = new drivers ergo no go on passive mode.
So after snooping around Kismac’s website I found a solution. Download the development code and compile it. It’s pretty straight forward here is how to do it. (The text thats block format is inputted in terminal in one line…not separate lines.)
- Download and install subversion-client. I had installed subversion-client-1.3.1.dmg
- Download and install XCode. I had installed xcode_2.4.1_8m1910_6936315.dmg
- Launch terminal and enter the following:
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/usr/local/bin/svn co https://svn.binaervarianz.de/kismac/trunk/ kismac-source
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cd kismac-source
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./compile.command
That’s it…now if you open Finder you’ll see a folder called kismac-source and inside you’ll find the newly built kismac.app that’ll work with your Macbook in passive mode.
Those of you that are still reading, I assume it’s because you are interested on what those three commands do in terminal. It’s pretty straight forward. The first one downloads the latests “source” to a folder called kismac-source at the home level. The second command in the terminal simply changes the path to the kismac-source directory, and finally the third command simply compiles the source.
Errors you might expect to see:
If you do not have svn client installed when you run the first command at the terminal it will say no such file or directory.
If you do not have xcode installed at compile time it will either refuse your command on permissions or it will tell you that the file doesn’t exist.
If you’ve been a good reader and have read all this then go ahead to my files…you’ll find an easier solution.
*UPDATE*
Thanks to Fish (from the comments) for posting up the new site where KisMAC lives on!
http://kismac-ng.com/ and http://kismac-ng.org/
November 26th, 2006 at 3:40 am
Wow, does this really work? I thought it was down to the limitations in the chipset it’s self?
November 26th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Works for me…. A friend of mine just purchased a Core 2 Duo MacBook and he got it to work as well. He tried the easier solution, and it was fine out of the box.
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Will this work with the macbook pro?
December 2nd, 2006 at 3:08 pm
I myself don’t have a MacBook Pro so I can’t test it out. You can give it a shot and see if it’ll work. I can’t see why it wouldn’t work, but you never know… Good luck.
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:57 am
Why I can’t select “primary device injection” when i select apple airport extreme passive mode. Cause after i can’t make deauthetification….? Please give me an answer quickly
Sorry my english is not good i’m french….
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:20 pm
thank you !
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:07 pm
inquiet,
need to be a little more specific…what device are you using? MacBook or MacBook Pro?
December 4th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Hi, kismac-source isn’t avaible at the moment, can you help me
December 4th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
with what do you require assistance?
December 4th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
I was fallowing your directions until about half way in which I just dicided to read on. I noticed then that you have the program already for those who learned in school that you read the entire test before you fill out the answers. Anyway, I couldn’t get a hold of xcode so i just used your already made version. I however am confused. Maybe I’m missing something but when I open the new KisMac it had a new option for: apple airport, passive; but every time I try and use a feature (i.e. authentication flood) it says I have not picked a driver. So, I was just wondering if you have any thoughts.
Thanks
P.S. you rock for working on this shit.
December 5th, 2006 at 12:40 am
I’m glad you read the entire thing, as anything I put up here can be solved by just understanding (to some degree) what one is actually doing rather than just working like a drone…step 1…step 2….etc…
Okay first off after you download the file and unzip it I hope you install KisMAC on your Macbook. This is done by dragging and dropping the KisMAC.app application into the Applications folder in Finder. Now once KisMAC is installed launch KisMAC from the applications folder and go to preferences (command + comma). Click on the Driver menu and select the your appropriate driver (in my case it was the Apple Airport Extreme card, passive mode) and then click add. Once you see the correct card in the “capture device” field close the KisMAC preferences box and audit/scan your network until your hearts content.
December 5th, 2006 at 1:10 am
Well first off, you are one prompt mother fucker. Second in looking at my last post i realize i was unclear. What i am trying to say is that i pick the new option (i.e.apple airport, passive) in the preferences and i select all channels and what not, but i when i try and do preform a funtion such as Authentication Flood it gives me an error: could not instantiate driver. This is the same error i got when i tryed to use the …….
Wait.. im a fuckin idiot. i just realized i was picking the wrong airport card. Ok,,, now that i have picked the right one the problem is that when i pick authentication flood it tells me: no injection driver. But my understanding is that with this new kismac i would still be able to inject. Now there could be two problems i realize: One something is not working or two i have no fucking idea what im doing or how you use injecting. I regret that i need put you in the place of socrates to meno and that you need explain every step. O.. and what time is it where you are from because im goin to bed.
December 5th, 2006 at 1:50 am
well i’m on the pacific coast (California). As to your query of packet injection…well the apple extreme card won’t do it. I assume since you’re asking about packet injection you know how it works so I won’t go into the details of that, but if you come across prismII card you’ll be able to do exactly what you want to do.
Here’s KisMAC’s wiki site that has a list of their configs…perhaps you’ll be able to pickup one of the wifi cards cheap on ebay.
http://kismac.de/_trac/wiki/Our%20Hardware
December 5th, 2006 at 8:36 am
sweet, thanks. I’ll definitly be checking back in with your site; you were plentifly helpful.
December 8th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Hey, I have a Macbook right now and currently downloading xcode. I was just wondering what the terminal is.
December 8th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
terminal is the shell. you can access the terminal by launching finder and going to applications—>utilities. and i hope you read the instructions before jumping into this.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
haha.. i read it.. i’m having the same problem as erik. i just want to able to use packet injections but I guess I can’t. Thanks for the help.
December 9th, 2006 at 1:05 am
Hi,
I’ve successfully build the latest KisMac. I’ve got a Macbook non-pro Core2Duo. When I select the passive airport driver, though, I can’t tick the “Injection” option as it says “Injection not supported”…
thanks in advance…
chell
December 9th, 2006 at 1:42 am
Read my comment about 5 comments above yours.
December 9th, 2006 at 1:50 am
So there is no way I can do packet injection with my macbook other than buying a WLAN card/dongle/whatever?
December 9th, 2006 at 1:59 am
no not that I’m aware of as the MacBook hardware doesn’t support it.
December 9th, 2006 at 2:00 am
Damn….
but anyways… I looked on the website you gave me the link to. It only lists very old WLAN devices that can do packet detection. Do you know of any solution that supports 54mbit WLAN AND packet injection?
Thanks,
chell
December 9th, 2006 at 2:09 am
More than likely a PrismII chipset will work. But I must ask do you know what packet injection is? I suggest you Google up some information on it so you have a better idea of what you’re actually doing.
December 9th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Hey again, I could run Kismac very well now and I can start scanning and collecting packets. But I am having trouble collecting the unique IV’s and any data packets. I just receive a lot of regular packets. Is there a way I can fix this? Thanks.
December 9th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
how do you know for sure you’re only receiving regular packets? If you’re not using packet injection you’ll need anywhere between 250,000 to 1,000,000 packets to decipher you wifi key.
December 9th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Well, I currently have around 800,000 packets that I received to decipher my key but when I try to crack it, it tells me that I don’t have enough packets and I should collect more.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:30 am
the kismac-source is not available
where to get it?
December 15th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Hi there
I followed all the instructions correctly and everything got installed correctly, but I still don’t have full functionnality on kismac… (deauthentification, authentification flood, packets reinjection, etc…)
I have a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo working under MacOS X 10.4.8
Thanks for helping.
December 16th, 2006 at 1:33 am
@ Steve - Please read the entire post.
@ wykazox - Please read my comment 9 above yours.
December 17th, 2006 at 7:56 am
Thanks for your instructions and your files, they just work fine. As I have a macbook pro but i don’t’ have a prismll card (runned out of money for the mac…) can I still crack in some way a wep key??
Thanks in advance
December 26th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Hello
Currently sitting in my car in the middle of a canadian town reading this!
The problem is that i have no possebility to download the 900 mb big xcode.
In wondering i any one of you could email me the kismac-source folder?
nospam@no.spam.lvlolvlo.net
plz Jakob
December 26th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Jakob,
Did you read the entire post? Please do so…
And if you’re going to come back with the question of packet injection please read the comments…
Happy New Year!
December 28th, 2006 at 11:37 am
Can you explane me how to install the universal usb-driver for kismac so that I can use a dwl g122 usb??
Thanks
January 9th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
thx lvlolvlo!
worked like a charm!
January 27th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Hey
Ok I should have read to the END….I installed XCode, subversion and ran the Terminal
1- Can I delete the “kismac-source” folder in the finder after I get the new application out of there?
2- HOW do I UNINSTALL Xcode and Subversion?
The XCode has ain uninstall dev tools script but how do I run it?
XCode took up alot of drive space so I need it removed.
may thanks
A
January 27th, 2007 at 10:03 am
OK I found out how to unistall Subversion on a discussion board, below incase anyone needs it, and Xcode from the pdf file….removed the $ from the beginning of the command and it worked in Terminal this time.
Only problem now is I have like literally 8 GIGS LESS space on my computer ater I installing and uninstalling Xcode, went from about 29 gigs before install of both apps, now I’m at about 21.7 gigs…
What happened to all that drive space????
That’s a MAJOR BUMMER just to get Kismac on my Macbook…and I can’t even inject packets still so I STILL can’t get passwords….
Installed everything for nothing..I still need to get a card.
The APP being finished as a FILE should have been listed at the TOP of the explination…what was the POINT putting it on the bottom exactly and making people waste time compiling it before the get to see at the last step that it’s ALREADY DONE.
Has nothing to do with being a ROBOT, it’s jsut COMMON Courtesy so state at the BEGINNING “you can DOWNLOAD it here, OR do it your self as follows”
As a result, I have 8 gigs of stuff I can’t find on my hard drive after installing everythiong, so any help on where my 8 gigs went would be appreciated.
PS
to uninsall subversion:
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/articles/2006/06/05/subversion-1-3-2
January 27th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Anthony,
If you want to inject packets then you can go buy a PRISM2 based USB adapter. Second if you’re telling me that reading a few lines of text is too strenuous for you well then using KisMac is not for you. With that being said, the files that are taking up your hard disk space are either temp files which you can Google to figure out how to clean up, or just the dump from the subversion when you downloaded the files.
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
[...] card in macbooks. If you’ve read this far I’m assuming your’re interested… here it is. [...]
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
[...] card in macbooks. If you’ve read this far I’m assuming your’re interested… here it is. [...]
February 12th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
[...] to Steve, who pointed me to this article detailing how to build your own version of KisMAC that will work with your airport extreme [...]
February 17th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Wow, very impressive. Have read your post and all the comments but have not yet installed the software you generously provided. I worry alot. If this isn’t working as planned, is uninstallation of anything going to be needed? And if so, how? Just want to make sure I can restore things to the way they were if anything goes wrong. Thoughts?
February 18th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Well it just really depends on what software you’re speaking of.
February 19th, 2007 at 7:24 am
I meant the “easier solution” approach. If I start the app, is it going to add files to system folders that might need to be removed? Or would I just need to quit the app and restart?
February 19th, 2007 at 7:44 am
(The Kismac site says to use their uninstaller (part of the installation package) to uninstall. Just wondering if I should use that or if your installer has an uninstaller. They also have a list of files that one could remove manually, I suppose. Is your list the same or are there additional files that would need to be removed? Just wondering.
February 19th, 2007 at 10:21 am
All the easier solution is is an executable file type. I’m not “hip” on the Mac speak, but I hope you get the idea… it’s standalone runnable file.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Has anyone really gotten this to work? Have been running it for HOURS on a Macbook and it keeps saying not enough packets. I’m not doing packet injection (I don’t even know exactly packet injection is — only that I can’t do it on a MacBook with Airport Extreme.) Any thoughts on what next? Would be very intertested in success reports and how much data you had to collect before it worked.
Also, would Aircrack work better with the data collected than Kismac? Not sure that I even know how to use it, but I have read elsewhere that it can work with Kismac dump files. Anyone done that? Practical guidance or suggestions would be helpful.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:47 am
Otis,
Packet Injection is exactly as it says… Using a packet injection method you would be able to more quickly decipher your security key. Since you can’t inject packets to decipher (driver support issues) you simply gather the packets and then try to brute force it. Now it’s not that you have 100,000 or 1,000,000 or 1,000,000,000 packets, it’s that you need something called IVs or rather “interesting packets” which contain the elements of what you’ll be brute forcing to decipher your key.
So in all honesty, you can spend hours, days, months, years, but if you don’t have the right kind of packets you won’t be able to decipher anything.
February 25th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Thanks for that clarification. Well, I let it run for around 8 hours, which resulted in around 2311 packets for one particular network, but zero unique IVs, and zero injection packets. I’m getting that for every network I scan. Maybe I ran it at the wrong time of day, but still, that’s pretty bad, no?
Also, I don’t understand how it can do a word list crack as I don’t recall installing a word list as part of this application.
Any suggestions on how to make this work? Would be interested in any guidance from other MacBook owners on what they did to make it work on their machines.
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
In the absence of additional comments from anyone who has made it work, I’m assuming that either a) no one reads this site or b) this fix doesn’t really work. As far as I can tell, it gets MacBooks to run Kismac in passive mode, but doesn’t enable them to collect enough useful data to actually crack anything. In other words, not the best use of your time. I would love to be corrected on this, but I’m not holding my breath.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:06 am
Otis you’re absolutely correct.
A. No one reads this site. Everyone just leeches… I have far more MB transferred than people actually idling on the site reading. Ergo my assumption people run a search come across here download the file and fly off. I don’t mind so long as they’re getting what they need done.
B. This fix is not a fix. It’s just a recompiling of KisMac on a MacBook so it can be used in passive mode. It’s not a fix to the driver which will allow the AirPort card inject packets. If you want to be able to inject packets and use KisMac properly, then I suggest you buy a prism based USB wifi adapter and use it with the compiled binary I have provided like I have stated in the comments.
Now on a more serious note…when it comes to technology please don’t use the expression of “holding one’s breath”….it’s so blah!
March 6th, 2007 at 5:43 am
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March 6th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
at least take the time to put a space between them so the evil faces show up properly….. jeez!
March 20th, 2007 at 11:41 am
hey i just installed your version (the easy way) on a macbook but it s running well i m collecting packets and datas however i m not collecting IV ’s therefore can not get do any attack well succesfull attack can you explain me more about that ……
March 20th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Well it’s fairly simple…. If you want the “IVs” then you need a prismII chipset based card (i.e. Linksys WUSB 11 or an Orinoco ). If you want to sit there and collect millions of packets and then brute them…well you can do that now.
March 29th, 2007 at 5:04 am
Just wanted to say a quick thanks. Compiled and running, everything going well.
March 29th, 2007 at 7:48 am
All this, is for macbook pro core2duo? Can I try it? or I lose time? because I am deprived of hope…….:cry:
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:59 am
hello guys,
ive just installed/compiled as the instructions gave me. didnt work…. whatever. now i want to get rid of that stuff. how do i uninstall subversion. did google but did nut find anything. also what about the folder kismac-source? just delete that?
thanks in advance!
ramsey
April 4th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Why even bother removing subversion? its just a unix binary, hardly takes up any space and you’ll never see it!
April 10th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
I’m one of the many who just found out that their macbook non-pro isnt enough for packet injection. I have read the 58 comments on the site and didnt notice anyone asking about your hardware configuration and/or network card. Perhaps you could mention your specs because I would like to know how well a card works before i buy one. Also, I wanted to say that I appreciate the site that you have created and your willingness to help other mac users ‘find their way.’ I found this site to be very helpful.
Thanks
April 11th, 2007 at 11:39 am
HI, just wanted to say that i’ve just finished installing it and its working like a dream… now i just need to find a prism based usb card on eBay!
April 11th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
After googling for quite a while, and not really getting very far, probably due to my complete ignorance, please could you recommend a usb wireless adaptor to use with my macbook so that i can use the full functuality of kismac? i.e packet injection etc…
Ps. i’d like to echo kadaves comment too!
April 11th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for the kind words. For hardware recommendations have a gander here:
http://kismac.de/_trac/wiki/Our%20Hardware
April 13th, 2007 at 11:46 am
hi nice site.
April 14th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I have a Macbook Pro and I did a similar solution from another forum. It does not work in Passive mode which was also discussed in that forum. This means no packet reinjection or deauthentication…but I hope to comeback here in the near future and someone has solved it!!! =)
Cheers!
April 15th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Hey lvlolvlo, great site, great work on compiling that for us noobs. I’ve gone through this site with a fine toothed comb (and others) and am now hunting out a prism2 compatible usb key for my MBP. I do scan and get packets but no IVs so I’m taking your advice and going to ebay.
I have a question that I think will arise in the future though…
When I’ve looked at screen shots, Kismac shows up the key as something that resembles a mac address. How do I convert this to a password to type in everytime I want to log on?
Cheers,
April 21st, 2007 at 11:35 am
hrrm, each time i compile in terminal i get no app in the kismac-source directory… any ideas why this is?
thanks.
April 21st, 2007 at 11:48 am
this is an amendment to the above comment,
i just tried to recompile once more and i got this for the first time, each of the other times its said, “Ok”
Building KisMAC main application… ** BUILD FAILED **
April 30th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
very nice! very very nice!
May 8th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Hey thanks a lot for the info on recompiling the kismac app.
I actually just wanted to let you people now how much I regret it that I’ve thrown away my Linksys WUSB11 adaptor when I moved to my new appartement :)…
due I tought it was old useless crap
dumb dumb dumb…
May 15th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Another step-by-stop write-up:
http://screammy.name/projects/kismacmacbook/
May 30th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
So I tried both the self-compiling version and downloading your binary. Both give me the same error.
KisMAC was able to load the driver backend for Airport Extreme Card, but it was unable to create an interface. Make sure your capture device is properly plugged in. If you think everything is correct, you can try to restart your computer. Maybe your console.log and system.log show more details.
I have fiddled with everything I can think of and restarted many times to try to solve the problem. Running a Core 2 Duo OS 10.4.9 - any suggestions?
May 31st, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Well.
So far after reading this i have gathered the following:
1. This is a compilation that allows kisMAC to use the macbook airport card in PASSIVE mode.
2. It does not, however, support packet injection, and therefore neither authentication flood or deauthentication (right?).
3. To perform packet injection you need a prism II chipset network adapter.
4. There are currently no network cards for the macbook pro’s ExpressCard slot, or few anyway.
5. Am i right in saying that collecting unique IVs also does not work with the macbook’s airport card?
6. Fixing this issue of the airport card requires information about the airport card which only someone inside apple could give, and they’re not likely to. They’re also not likely to fix a problem with a network stumbler and spoofer (is that the right word?) themselves.
So it is really best to get a USB network adapter with a prism II chipset. Google it and you’ll probably find one.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Oh and if you’re really too retarded to find the file lvlolvlo kindly compiled for us, it’s here: http://www.lvlolvlo.net/my-files/ .
May 31st, 2007 at 11:53 pm
(It’s the bottom one what says Kismac-Macbook)
June 12th, 2007 at 4:25 am
is there any way to use kismac finaly on a probook yet?
thx
June 14th, 2007 at 9:42 am
hi all.
June 18th, 2007 at 7:03 am
am using the latest usb-branch build with dwl-g122 and I get packets but no data packets: no matter how many I collect, or which crack procedure I attempt I keep getting the “not enough data collected message” any hints? Thanks so much.
July 7th, 2007 at 6:49 am
I have read all the comments and downloaded your version but it still shows this “driver for airport extreme hasn’t been found” please help me.
July 13th, 2007 at 3:40 am
How can i load that
Download and install XCode. I had installed xcode_2.4.1_8m1910_6936315.dmg
It have to be member man can anyone send it to me
July 14th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Guys
10.4.10 Breaks Kismac, The newer revisions are required.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I am unable to reliably download a 924mb Xcode file, is there any chance someone can recomplile the latest source tree for KisMAC off subversion and repost? if what Ben says is true. I personally am having trouble with all versions of kismac available on kismac.de or here. Whenever i try to load any sort of driver on my MacBook it says that it can not find my airport drivers and that it cant enable monitor mode.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I’m having a problem. I got the compiled app and I launch it ok. I go into the prefrences and try to load the airport extreme passive. It tells me I should use persistant something…so I turn it on. I reboot. I go back in and try to scan and it tells me it can’t load the driver.
I have a black macbook with 2.16 ghz and 2 gb ram. Any ides?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:14 am
bob smith, this link almost work, but i can’t collect data packets http://tehbin.com/Bin/KisMAC/trunk/KisMAC%20trunk%20r239.zip
July 20th, 2007 at 8:31 am
So i guess i’m a good reader ? i went to “my Files” and dl kismac-macbook does it work ? or do i need to dl XCODE and subversion to get it work …
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:56 am
First of all, thanks for this helpfull explanation!! Yet I still encounter problems.
I have a Macbook pro and a D-Link dwl-g122 dongle, dangling out of my window. With the USBWirelessUtility I actually get to see all available networks, the channels, the signal strength and such… But, even when I get one where authenication isn’t required and I get connected, I can’t seem to use it and really go online (no idea wether ports are being blocked or such). That’s my first problem.
So I checked for KisMac, built it following your step-by-step explanation and it now finds the Airport yet can’t use it as it should (the injection-thing). When I try to get my g122 to work, I select the USB with PrismII, but I get the error it’s not properly connected. That’s my second problem. I did install the R2500 stuff actually and I can get it to work with the USBWirelessUtility, but how can I get it to work with KisMac then?
Thanks!
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 am
Oh yeah, before I forget… I tried building from scratch, with the explanation on http://kismac.de/_trac/wiki/BuildingFromSource. When I enter “svn co https://svn.binaervarianz.de/kismac/branches/usb-drivers kismac” in term, I get “svn: command not found”. No se que pasa, what am I doing wrong here?
July 25th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Hi all. Before you buy any USB dongles, ensure they are what you think they are. Many manufacturers have been known to change their adapters’ firmware without notification. Also, I believe that the D-Link DWL-g122 is not supported, whereas the DWL-112 (b only) is… There is a hardware compatibility list on the KisMac site.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:43 am
i cant get this thing to work im new to the whole new thing, im able to run kismac and as soon as i click on Authentication Fllod it says No Injection Driver and i have no clue on how to fix that
Any help???
July 28th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Thanks for the help, worked great!
Note to others: The airport extreme card (on macbooks/pros) is only useful for seeing networks, not cracking them. Currently, it cannot receive data packets.
http://kismac.de/_trac/wiki/Hardware%20List
Also, the driver doesn’t support “injection” of packets. This doesn’t really matter though, because it can’t receive data packets anyway.
Hope this helps others!
July 28th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
First thank you momo for being very generous with your files, but….
ive carefully read each post and I think only two people have the same problem I do…
“Could not enable Monitor Mode for Airport Extreme. Your airport extreme driver has not been found.”
Anyway the real point is even if I did get this up and running I cant collect the packets necessary to decrypt WEP. I did see on the Kismac website a changeset_r239.zip revision that was “for Intel-based Macs.” I wonder if that is the build that works (packet-injection, etc.). If anyone comes across a solution for Macbooks (blackbook specifically) please be kind enough to post it on here. THANKS
July 29th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Here is a full list of hardware that works. many usb devices:
http://kismac.de/hardwarelist.php
Careful:
There seem to be severe problems with dlink dwl-122 and mac osx 10.4.x
July 29th, 2007 at 3:47 am
this works perfectly. the only difficult part was obtaining a copy of xcode 2.4.1 which i was able to find on demonoid.com. thanks a million. (black macbook 2nd gen, 10.4.10, 2GB Ram)
July 30th, 2007 at 4:58 am
As of yesterday, svn version of kismac works for my MBP 2.4Ghz. However, as said by DK, data packets stays 0 while injection gives me “no injection driver” error.
August 2nd, 2007 at 8:22 am
I have a MacBook (Intel) I did the compiling and all the instructions. I can Scan and get the Airport Extreme card to run in Passive mode. Now, the Data packets, IVs stay at 0, no matter how much time you let it run. If I do brute force it tells me that I have to gather more data, also i cannot deauthenticate. This message appears when I try to do a crack on a WPA encryption ” You have not collected enough data packets to perform this attack. Please capture some more traffic”
If anyone knows what to do so it would work please reply. Thank you
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:07 am
You f’ing Rock!
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
If you are getting a “KisMAC is not able to load the Apple Airport driver, if you killed it by loading the Viha driver. Try restarting KisMAC.” Error when U are trying to scan after patching from 10.4.9 to 10.4.10, there is a fix.
The KisMAC community has put the fixed code up on subversion. go to
http://www.ahjema.com/KisMAC.zip for new version
Using a Netgear ma111 v1 and working perfectly!
August 5th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Hey….
So i’ve read the whole thing…
I can start up the Kismac, find netoworks ect…. but as everyone else with a Airport extreeme, not get the IV’s… soo i cant crack a network…
So as far as i understand, i need to buy a prismII chipset based card (i.e. Linksys WUSB 11) Right??
So these cards, do u just USB them into your mac???
I have a Macbook, and if i buy one of these, do i just connect it to my mac?
And then i can use it as injection drive???
Enableing me to use authentication flood ect, so i can get the IVs??
And then a last question will this device work, on my macbook (intel), and ofcause also with kismac…:
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WUSB11-Wireless-B-Network-Adapter/dp/B00005AW1H
Thanks Alot…
August 5th, 2007 at 8:55 am
OK stupid me, it wont be mac compatible i guess, what else should one buy then??
Whats not expensive, but works?
Thnx again
August 8th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Status: DWL-G122 B1 Passive mode WORKING!
Hardware: MBP 2.0GHZ Core Duo (not core 2). OS 10.4.10 / KisMac USB-Source compiled correctly.
If I let it collect enough Unique IVs, I can run brute force. I’m hoping this hardware (RALink based) will eventually support 802.11g injection.
August 11th, 2007 at 7:46 am
For everyone asking about injection. You cant do it with extreme cards, the chipset is closed source.
Go on eBay and buy a USB wifi key I got DWL-122 and I can do injection with it (its a prism2 chipset)
basically, you need to have a wifi card compatible, there is a list on the main kismac website, but stick to a ralink or a prism2 chipset and your gold.
August 11th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Are u using the DWL-122
On a mac??
With succes?? if il by one, i have a MacBook (Intel)
August 12th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Help needed!!
I bought a belkin (f5d705d, 3001uk) USB wifi dongle today, i had an hard time getting my G4 powerbook to realize it was connected however it now does. But Kismac will not work with it, when i scan it says ‘Driver error occurred with your USB device, make sure it is properly connected. Scanning will be canceled. Errors may be printed to console.log.’
What am I doing wrong? I have noticed in the preferences driver panel it won’t let me select use as primary device its greyed out. I’m using OS x 10.3
any help greatly received.
August 12th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
This forum has been really helpful.
Tell me if I’ve got it. To summarize - there is now a version of Kismac that will allow passive scan with the Airport Extreme card on a MacBook. However you cannot do any injections or deauthorizations because of the way the card/chip is configured. But by purchasing a card with a Prism II chipset you would then be able to acheive the full functionality.
So now I really want a Prism II card. Can anyone recommend one to me to go with my MacBook running OS X 10.4.10 ? How much would it run? Are there some more reliable than others?
August 14th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Hi ! Seems that the sources are not avaible anymore….
the svn command returned me an error. Does someone could put the sources on a ftp for a couple of days ? I need to compil it myself for a better driver input.
thanks.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:30 am
does this work on i-mac version 10.4.10
August 16th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Can anyone put a usb branch compiled version of kismac? cuz i can’t seem to get it no matter how hard i try
August 18th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Okay, so when I enter the “/usr/local/bin/svn co https://svn.binaervarianz.de/kismac/trunk/ kismac-source” command into Terminal, I get the following error:
subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:826: (apr_err=175002)
svn: PROPFIND request failed on ‘/kismac/trunk’
subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:296: (apr_err=175002)
svn: PROPFIND of ‘/kismac/trunk’: 405 Method Not Allowed (https://svn.binaervarianz.de)
What’s wrong?
Also, I tried the “easy way” and when I set up for Airport Extreme, passive mode and try to scan, I get the error “Could not enable Monitor Mode for Airport Extreme. Your Airport Extreme driver has not been found.”
Any ideas?
I’m running a 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro.
August 24th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
yes you can reinject with your macbook/macbookpro using built-in device, but not with kismac and not with osX. Since the card is atheros chipset you can use the madwifi driver and aircrack if you dual-boot with linux. I do that and it does work. If you are not familiar with linux/unix this is not a recommended method for you tho…
August 24th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
For anyone that actually makes it down this far, the KisMAC web site and svn are back up at http://kismac-ng.com/ and http://kismac-ng.org/ with …. Please have a look at the FAQ; it may be long, but it covers pretty much everything you may need to know.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:20 am
I also get the “Could not enable Monitor Mode for Airport Extreme. Your Airport Extreme driver has not been found†message. I’m using a MacBook Pro (”model identifier” MacBookPro2,2).
September 1st, 2007 at 4:32 pm
These instruction no longer work following the whole fiasco in germany shutting down the project - the project has been picked up in switzerland and you can use the following svn.
direct it to either svn://shoxed.com/svn/kismac/trunk or http://kismac-ng.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
September 18th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Just a quick 1
I am going for the Linksys WUSB54GC to allow me to inject packets do i instal the drivers that come with it or Download and install subversion-client and Download and install XCode.
MacBook black
OS X 10.4.10
October 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
[...] KisMAC er et kjekt program til mac, som sniffer i trådløse nettverk i nærheten. Den samler data-pakker, og når det er samlet nok skal det være mulig å finne kryperingsnøkkelen. Dette må gjøres i såkalt passive mode, som KisMAC i utgangspunktet ikke støtter på MacBook og MacBook Pro, men dette fikset jeg ved å følge denne guiden; lvlolvlo.net/kismac-on-a-macbook/. [...]
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:07 am
Hello, the syte is great thank´s
I`m wondering… once my kismac decode the wep code i want, can I note it down and use it normaly without kismac??
I`m asking because I`m one more in the non-pro macbook users, and I want to know if I borrow the usb device for a day, crack ono or two codes and then, can I use them with the airport extreme?
do I have to marry the usb device?
Thanks lvlolvlo
thanks everybody
November 1st, 2007 at 8:15 pm
How do I activate my Linksys WUSB54G ver.4 on my macbook? Will that be able to work?
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
It works but I read somewhere that Ralink does not support packet injection. I can collect packets, but once I get to the deauthentication/authentication and reinjecting packets it does not work, and the light that should be blinking on the Link does not blink. Any ideas on how to get this working on my macbook?
December 12th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
HERRO?
December 15th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
how come i am not collecting any data packets?
January 10th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Has anyone figured out a fix for leopard yet? Is there anyone else working on this app now that it got banned in Germany?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:00 am
This docu-wiki doesn’t work on a MacBook pro core 2, 2.2Ghz
any news?
thanks
March 30th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Ok so I just got KisMAC 0.21a (0.2a [$Revision: 242$]), and I installed it, ran it up, messed with a few things. First..
I found many networks, no packets were showing up (collected),
Second,
I installed the Subversion Client hastily, don’t know wtf it does, and am concerned…
Third,
Again, your post is awesome… Why is this necessary for PASSIVE mode, I don’t even know what that is either, and this whole process, why is this necessary…
Broken down= what I am not supposed to be able to do because I HAVE a MAC BOOK.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Ok F’ed up.
In terminal I inputted the first line and hit enter, and now I can not enter the rest. I dont know what I did, definitely asking for some bail money now! Please help, anyone who has the knowledge.
THANK YOU!
Dillon
April 12th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Dude, tanks so fucking much!!!!!!!!!!
Youre the fucking man
