Kismet on Ubuntu with Netcomm Wireless
 

Hi,
I'm trying, and failing to get any WEP cracking software working on Ubuntu.

I've downloaded pretty much every kind of software there is, but not one of them is working.

I'm a newbie to Linux, and as such, I'm having trouble with the whole 'run a c compiler to generate your install gizmo' thing. I'll learn how to program in C if it comes to it, but I don't want to go to the trouble if I can avoid it.

All I really want is any WEP cracking software to run on my machine running Ubuntu, with my Wireless NIC (Netcomm NP5420). Preferably a GUI based one, but I'm happy to use the command line, if the instructions don't assume you're a programmer.

Any help would be gratefully received.

More info..
 

It's probably bad form to reply to your own posts, but I wanted to add that Kismet was one of the applications I downloaded, by searching the download library.

After installing it (and failing to find an icon anywhere) I opened a terminal and typed Kismet, which returned the following:

steve@ubuntu:~$ kismet
Server options: none
Client options: none
Starting server...
Waiting for server to start before starting UI...
Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure.
FATAL: Unable to set up pidfile /var/run//kismet_server.pid, couldn't open for steve@ubuntu:~$

Am I missing something here?

Even more info...

Ok, me again, trying Airsnort, this program gives me:

steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -d
aircrack: option requires an argument -- d

aircrack 2.1 - (C) 2004 Christophe Devine

usage: aircrack [options] <pcap file> <pcap file> ...

-d <start> : debug - specify beginning of the key
-f <fudge> : bruteforce fudge factor (default: 2)
-m <maddr> : MAC address to filter usable packets
-n <nbits> : WEP key length: 64 / 128 / 256 / 512
-p <nfork> : SMP support: # of processes to start

steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -d start

aircrack 2.1 - (C) 2004 Christophe Devine

usage: aircrack [options] <pcap file> <pcap file> ...

-d <start> : debug - specify beginning of the key
-f <fudge> : bruteforce fudge factor (default: 2)
-m <maddr> : MAC address to filter usable packets
-n <nbits> : WEP key length: 64 / 128 / 256 / 512
-p <nfork> : SMP support: # of processes to start

steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -d <start>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -d <fudge>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -d fudge

aircrack 2.1 - (C) 2004 Christophe Devine

usage: aircrack [options] <pcap file> <pcap file> ...

-d <start> : debug - specify beginning of the key
-f <fudge> : bruteforce fudge factor (default: 2)
-m <maddr> : MAC address to filter usable packets
-n <nbits> : WEP key length: 64 / 128 / 256 / 512
-p <nfork> : SMP support: # of processes to start

steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -f fudge

aircrack 2.1 - (C) 2004 Christophe Devine

usage: aircrack [options] <pcap file> <pcap file> ...

-d <start> : debug - specify beginning of the key
-f <fudge> : bruteforce fudge factor (default: 2)
-m <maddr> : MAC address to filter usable packets
-n <nbits> : WEP key length: 64 / 128 / 256 / 512
-p <nfork> : SMP support: # of processes to start

steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -f 2

aircrack 2.1 - (C) 2004 Christophe Devine

usage: aircrack [options] <pcap file> <pcap file> ...

-d <start> : debug - specify beginning of the key
-f <fudge> : bruteforce fudge factor (default: 2)
-m <maddr> : MAC address to filter usable packets
-n <nbits> : WEP key length: 64 / 128 / 256 / 512
-p <nfork> : SMP support: # of processes to start

steve@ubuntu:~$ aircrack -f <2>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `2'

I must be missing something, usually the word in the < > is individual, and the actual pointy brackets are left off. Doesn't seem to be the case here though... any pointers..

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