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Apple AirPort, AirPort Extreme & Broadcom Based Ad aptors, Active Mode ¶ Ve nd ndor De vi vice

MAC ra ng nge

Chipse t

Sta tu tus

Lucent Ai rPort 00:30:65:1B Hermes Broadcom Ai rP rPor t Ex tr tr em em e Airforce FriendlyNET Broadcom AeroLAN-G Airforce Broadcom F5D7010 Airforce Broadcom WLI WLI-CB-CB-G G54 Airforce TrueMobile Broadcom 1180 USB BCM4301 Broadcom WMP1 WMP11v 1v2. 2.7 7 BCM4301

Apple A pp ppl e Asante Bel ki ki n Buffa Buffalo lo Dell Lin Linksys ksys Li nksys

WMP-54G

00:0D:88

Broadcom

Links inksys ys

WPC WPC54G

Broadcom Airforce

Motorol a WN WN825G

Broadcom

Works in active mode. Works in active mode. Should work in active mode Should work in active mode. Should work in active mode. Should work in active mode. Should work in active mode. Should work in active mode. Should work in active mode. Confirmed working by themacuser

Apple AirPort, AirPort Extreme & Broadcom Base d Adaptors, Active Mode Apple AirPort card, Passive Mode Apple AirPort Extreme card, Passive Mode Atheros based card, Passive Mode Cisco Aironet card, Passive Mode Prism2/Orinoco/Hermes Prism2/Orinoco /Hermes card, Passive Mode PrismGT based card, passive mode USB device with Prism2 chipset, passive mode USB Ralink RT73 based devices USB Ralink RT2570 based devices USB Realtek RTL8187L based devices Not working - Unsupported Chipset Not working - Should but doesn't

Other supported Active mode devices work, but you may have to change the capture device.

Apple AirPort card, Passive Mode Vendo Vendor r Devic Device e MAC MAC rang range e

Apple Apple

Chip Chipset set

Statu Status s

AirPo AirPort rt 00:3 00:30: 0:65 65:1 :1B B Lucen Lucentt Herme Hermes s Works Works in passi passive ve mode mode..

Apple AirPort Extreme card, Passive Mode Vendor De vice

A pp ppl e

MAC range

Ai rP rPor t Ex tr tr em em e

MacBookPro (and possibly other Intel Macs) AirPort Motorol a WN825G

Apple

Chipset

Broadcom Airforce Atheros 00:16:CB:B6 5006x Broadcom

Sta tus

Works in passive mode. Has problems with corrupt packets, so cracking doesn't work every time. Fine for discovering networks. Only receives beacon packets except on rare exceptions. Conf ir med worki ng by themacuser

Atheros based card, Passive Mode Vendor Device

D-Li nk D-Li nk nk D-Li nk Linksys N et etgea r Netgear Proxi m

MAC range

DWL-G520 (pci ) DWL-G650 (rev B4) 00:11:95:03 DWL-G650 (rev C2) WPC55AG WG311T (pc i) i) WG511T Ori no noco b/g 00:20:A6:D2

Chipset

Status

Ather os 5002g Ather os os Ather os 5001x Ath Atheros eros 5001 5001x+ x+ AR5213/Athe ro ros 5004g Ather os 5005gs Ather os os 5004g

Shoul d work i n passi ve mode. KisMAC >= 0.08a Repor te ted worki ng ng i n passi ve ve mode by Fi sh sh Repor ted worki ng i n passi ve mode. Verif Verifie ied! d! Supp Suppor orte ted d in pass passiv ive e mode mode.. Conf ir ir me me d w or or ki ki ng ng by r ol ol lf lf as as te ter (r ec ec og ogni ze zed a s ai rp rpor t e xt xtr em em e) e) Shoul d work i n passi ve mode Ver if if ie ied! Supported i n passi ve ve mode.

Cisco Aironet card, Passive Mode Vendor De vice

Cisco Cisco

MAC range

Chipset

Status

AIR-LMC35x 00:09:E8:DA Ci sc sco Ai Ai ro ronet Should wo work i n passi ve ve mo mode. AIR-P AIR-PCM3 CM35x 5x 00:08 00:08:21 :21:29 :29 00:0 00:0A:8 A:8A A Cisco Cisco Aironet Aironet Verified! Verified! Suppo Supported rted in passive passive mode. Flash Flash firmware firmware to 4.25.30 4.25.30!!

Prism2/Orinoco/Hermes Prism2/Orinoco/Hermes card, Passive Mode Ve nd ndor

De vi vice

MAC ra ng nge

Addt Addtrr on on

AWPAWP-1 100

Addt Addtrr on on

AWPAWP-1 101

Asanté

AL1011

B el el ki ki n

F5D6020 (ol d) d)

Compaq

WL-100

00:50:08:BD

D-Link

DWL-650 (old)

00:05:5D:DA

D-Li nk

DWL-660

Enterasys

RoamAbout 802.11 DS

Li nksys

WMP11

00:E0:63:81

Chipse t

Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Lucent Hermes

Sta tu tus

Should work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode. Verified! Supported in passive mode. Verified! Supported in passive mode. Reported to work fine in passive mode.

Lucent

Reported to to wo work fi fine.

Intersil Prism2

Versions below 2.7 are Prism2, should work in passive mode

Linksys

WPC11 Ver. 2.5

Linksys

WPC-11 Ver 3 00:06:25:15 Orinoco Gold Card Orinoco Silver 2Mbit Orinoco Silver 11Mbit

Lucent Lucent Lucent

00:02:2d:27

00:02:2D:20

Macsense WPE-600 Microsoft MN520 N etgea r

MA401

N etgea r

MA401

Roper

RO80211BIUSB

00:30:AB:0F 00:09:5B:55

Senao

NL-2511CD EXT2

SMC

SMC2532W-B

SMC

SMC2632W (old)

ZCOMAX

XI-300

ZCOMAX

XI-815

Zoom

4105

ZyXEL

B-101

03:a0:c5

Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Lucent Hermes Lucent Hermes Lucent Hermes Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2

Reported to work in passive mode. Locks up on unsupported channels. (channels 12, 13 and 14 - just deselect them and you'll be fine.)

P ri sm 2

Re po rt ed to wo rk fi ne .

Intersil Prism2.5 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Intersil Prism2 Orinocco

Reported to work fine. Reported to work in passive mode. Verified! Supported in passive mode. Verified! Supported in passive mode. Reported to work in passive mode. Reported to work fine... if you can stand the Microsoft logo on the side of your PowerBook... Reported to not fit in G4 Tower due to door. It works though. Should work in passive mode. Reported to work fine in passive mode

Reported to work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode. Reported to work in passive mode.

PrismGT based card, passive mode V endo r 3Com Allnet Corega D-Link Draytek Netgear SMC SMC

D evic e 3CRWE154G72 ALL0271 WLCB-54GT DWL-G650 A1 Vigor 540 WG511 SMC2802W SMC2835W

Netgear WG511

MAC ra nge Chips et 00:0d:54:9f Pri smGT PrismGT PrismGT PrismGT 00:0c:20:00 PrismGT PrismGT PrismGT 00:04:E2:81 PrismGT Intersil PrismGT

St at us Shoul d work Should work. Should work Should work. Should work Should work. Should work. Should work Some users have reported it works, some have reported it hasn't. YMMV. This may be due to the above.

USB device with Prism2 chipset, passive mode Vendor

Device

Acer

Warplink USB Adaptor

Actiontec

Prism2.5 11mbps WLAN USB Adaptor

Adaptec

AWN-8020

AirVast

WN-220

Allnet

0193 11mbps WLAN USB adaptor

Apacer

Wireless Steno ME112 / KU8-M

Ashton Digital

WN220 USB adaptor/WRUB-2011i

Asus

WL-140

Compaq/Intel?

WL100 Pro/Wireless? 11mbps multiport WLAN adapter

Corega

Wireless LAN USB Stick-11

D-Link

DWL-122

Dell

Trumobile 1180 (WL-683D) REV A02 00:90:4B

Fujitsu/Siemens? Connectbird WLAN USB Hawking

H-WU36D

Intel

WUD 2011B

IOData

AirPort WN-B11/USBS

MAC range

00:0B:6B

00:60:B3

Chipset Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil

Status

Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism 2.5 Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil

Supported in passive mode

Should work Should work Should work Should work Should work Confirmed working with full passive mode by zudark Confirmed working with full passive mode Reported to work in passive mode. Should work Should work

Reported working with r138 Reported working! Reported to work in passive mode. Should work in passive mode Should work

JVC

MP-XP7250 Builtin USB WLAN adaptor

Linksys

WUSB11 ver2.5

Linksys

WUSB11v3.0

MacSense

WUA-700

Melco Melco

WLI-USB-KS11G 11MBPS WLAN adaptor WLI-USB-S11 11mbps WLAN adaptor

Microsoft

MN-510

Netgear

MA111b v1

Siemens

SpeedStream 1022 11mbps

Sitecom

WL-012

Sitecom

WL-022

SMC

WUSB32

Syntax

USB-400

U SR ob oti cs

U SR1120 W ir el es s U SB Ad apt or

Xterasys

XN-2122 B

Z-Com

725/726 Pris m2.5 USB/USBIntegrated

ZyXEL

B-200 (old)

ZyXel

ZyAir B200 Wireless USB Adapter

Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil 00:60:B3:6A Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil 00:0B:6B:10 Prism3 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil Prism2 USB Intersil 00:A0:C5:B1 Prism USB Intersil Prism2 USB

Should work if it can be wired right to work on an external USB port. This probably isn't hard Verified! Supported in passive mode. Should work Should work Should work Should work Should work in passive mode Should work as long as it is a v1 (serial number starts with ma14), not a v2 Should work Verified! Supported in passive mode Should work Should work Should work in passive mode; confirmed working with USB Prism2 driver by Dan O. Should work Should work in passive mode. Should work (integrated one might need rewiring) Reported to work in passive mode Should work

USB Ralink RT73 based devices

Note: Chips stamped RT2571WF are part of the rt73 chipset. Read the FAQ or forums to check status of injection for these devices.

Ve ndor

D evice

MAC range

Alfa

AWUS036s

00:C0:CA

AftertheMac

G54SL (Rebadged CNet dongle)

Asus

WL-167G v.2

Belkin

F5D7050 v3000uk

00:17:3F

Belkin

F5D7050 v?

00:11:50

Belkin

F5D7050 v3001 & v3002

00:11:50

Belkin

F5D7050 v3020

00:1C:DF

Belkin

F5D7050 v3125

Belkin

F5D9050 v3014

Belkin

F5D9050 ver 4000uk

Buffalo

WLI-U2-G54HP

Conceptronic C54RU D-Link D-Link D-Link

DWL-G122 Rev. C1 (F/W.:v3.00) DWL-G122 Rev. C1 (F/W.:v3.10) DWA-110 Rev. A1 (F/W.:1.00)

00:80:5A 00:17:9A 00:1B:11 00:1E:58

Edimax

EW-7318USg

00:0E:2E

Engeni us

EU B-3701 EXT

Hama

00062764

Hawking

HWUG1

00:0E:3B

Hawking

HWUG1A

00:0E:3B

Vendor &  Product IDs V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0xB05 P:0x1723 V:0x050D P:0x905C V:? P:? V:0x050D P:0x705A V:0x050D P:0x705a V:0x050D P:0x705A V:0x050D P:0x905B V:0x050D P:0x905C V:0x411 P:0xD9 V:0x14B2 P:0x3C22 V:0x07D1 P:0x3C03 V:0x07D1 P:0x3C03 V: 0x07d1 P: 0x3c07 V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0x1740 P:0x3701 V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0x148F P:0x2573

FCC ID

Chipse t Status

NDD957318S607 rt73

Works in passive mode (standard power device)

NDD957318S607 rt73

Works in passive mode

r t73

Wo rks i n pas si ve m ode

K7S -F5D 7050B

r t73

R ep or te d w or ki ng by pi nk UZ I

K7S-F5D7050A

rt2571F

Reported working passive and injection by rev426 10.6.2

K7S-F5D7050B

rt73

Reported working by tastysauce and thesaint

K7S-F5D7050B

rt73

Reported working by firestorm99

K7S-F5D7050B

rt73

Reported working with injection by Xedek

rt73

Reported working by rcv in 0.2.99

r t73

Wo rks in pas si ve mode

r t73

Wo rks i n pas si ve m ode

r t73

Wo rks i n pas si ve m ode

KA 2D WLG 122C1 r t73

W or ks in pa ss iv e m od e

KA 2D WLG 122C1 r t73

W or ks in pa ss iv e m od e

KA 2W A110A 1

R ep or te d w or ki ng by m is c i n 0. 2. 99

K7S-F5D9050C

r t73

NDD957318S607 rt73 r t73

Works in passive mode Wi ll be a dded to sv n i n r297 (or so)

NDD957318S607 rt73

Should work based on Linux Wireless

NDD957318S607 rt73

Works in passive mode on Intel and PPC

NDD957318S607 rt73

Works in passive mode on Intel

Hercul es

HWGU SB2-54-V2

Hercules

HWGUSB2-54-V2-AP

Linksys

WUSB54GC

Linksys

WUSB54GR

MSI

US54SE II

Ovislink

W54USB v. 2

Ovislink

WT-2000USB

Quickertek

Quicky Jr

Sitecom

WL-113

Sitecom

WL-172

TP-LINK

TL-WN321G

Unicorn

TW-54G

V:0x06F8 P:0xE010 V:0x06F8 00:08:D3 P:0xE020 V:0x13B1 00:1C:10 P:0x20 V:0x13B1 P:0x23 V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0x148F P:0x2573 V:0x148F 00:0E:2E P:0x2573 V:0x0DF6 P:0x9712 V:0x0DF6 P:0x90AC V:0x148f  P:0x2573

r t73

Wo rks i n pas si ve m ode

r t73

Wo rks i n pas si ve m ode

Q87-WUSB54GC rt73

Works since r228, v3 not supported due to incompatible chipset

Q87- WU SB 54G R r t73

W or ks in pa ss iv e m od e

NDD957318S607 rt73

Should work based on Linux Wireless

NDD957318S607 rt73

Should work based on Linux Wireless

NDD957318S607 rt73

Should work based on Linux Wireless

NDD957318S607 rt73

Works in passive mode

rt73

Works in passive mode/exper. Injection

rt73

Works in passive mode/exper. Injection

r t73

Wo rks i n pas si ve m ode

rt73

Works in passive mode

USB Ralink RT2570 based devices Note: Chips stamped RT2571F are part of the rt2570 chipset. Read the FAQ or forums to check status of injection for these devices.

Vendor

Device

MAC range

D-Link

DWL-G122 Rev. B1

00:15:E9

Linksys

WUSB54G v4

00:12:17

Vendor &  Product IDs V:0x2001 P:0x3C00 V:0x13b1 P:0x000d

FCC ID

Chipse t Sta tus

KA2DWLG122B1 rt2570

works in passive mode

Q87WUSB54GV4

rt2570

works on Intel, but not on PPC

rt2570

Works in passive mode

rt2570

Works in passive mode, with injection

rt2571F

reported working in passive and injection by rev426 10.6.2

MSI

MSI-6861 US54G Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Nintendo Connector Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Nintendo Connector

USB Realtek RTL8187L based devices Vendor Device

Vendor &  Product FCC ID IDs V:0x0BDA 00:C0:CA P:0x8187 V:0x0BDA 00:C0:CA P:0x8187 V:0x0BDA 00:C0:CA UQ2AWUS036H P:0x8187 00:18:E7 NHPWLG1502 MAC range

Alfa

AWUS036E

Alfa

AWUS036EH

Alfa

AWUS036H

Encore

ENUWI-G2 v. 2 ERZW54USB04RS1W WNC-0305USB v. V:0x0BDA 00:11:6B P 27U B801R E 1 P:0x8187

Erize Level One

Chipset

Status

RTL8187L Based on chipset, it should  be able to work RTL8187L Works on Intel Leopard Works (High power 500 mW USB device); injects on Intel Leopard RTL8187L Reported working by so_contagious RTL8187L

RTL8187L Works on Powerbook G4 Mac OS X 10.5.8 RTL8187L

Part #: 540582 HW Ver: 1.0 confirmed working on Intel Leopard by [RUS]NeXuS

Not working - Unsupported Chipset V endo r D evic e F5D6020 Belkin Version 3 Belkin F5D6050 Belkin Belkin Digitus D-Link D-Link D-Link Encore Li nk sys Linksys Linksys Linksys Linksys Linksys

F5D7050 v3000 uk F5D7050 v4001 DN-7003GT (USB) DWL-120 DWL-G122 D1 DWL-G650+ ENUWI-G2 WPC11 Ver 4 WMP11 Ver 4 WUSB11 ver 2.1 WUSB11 ver 2.6 WUSB11 ver 2.8 WUSB11 ver 4.0 WUSB54GC

MAC ra ng e Chips et Realtek Rtl8180 Atmel

Atmel chipset = no driver.

00:17:3F:8D Zydas

Vendor 0x050d, Product 0x705c, FCC ID RAXWN4501H

00:17:3F:FF Zydas

Zy da s c hi ps et = no dr ive r

00:0C:41

No te s no driver for chipset

RTL8187B

Realtek 8187B chipset = no driver for part. (B) chipset

Atmel Marvell TI RTL8187B Rea ltek InProComm

Atmel chipset = no driver FCC ID KA2DWLG122D1 No chipset driver Realtek 8187B chipset. Fail to interface N ot w or ki ng, Uns uppor ted Chi ps et No driver

Atmel

Atmel chi pset = no dri ver.

Atmel Atmel chipset = no driver. AT76C503A Atmel

Atmel chi pset = no dri ver.

Atmel

Atmel chipset = no driver. USB ID Manuf: ALinx Corp

Li n s ys

ver 3 Linksys WUSBF54G WUSB54GS Linksys (v2?) Netgear MA111v2 Netgear MA101v2 8424-WD Proxim (USB) SMC SMC2635W

00:14:BF

Ra i n

Ra i n 2501 c ipset = no

Zydas

Zydas chipset = no driver. FCC ID Q87-WUSB54GSV2, PID 0x0014 VID 0x13b1: Reported not worki ng under usbdrivers build on Intel by calyth_ not working - strange chipset. V1 is a prism2 and works. Atmel chipset = no driver

Broadcom

SMC

2662W (USB) TL-WN322G TP-Link (USB) 802.11n Noname Wireless USB Adapter Combined Wifi+Bluetooth Noname USB Dongle (BT2.0)

river.

SIS162 Atmel Agere Hermes-II ADMtek

ADMtek chipset = no driver

Atmel

Atmel chipset = no driver

Zydas

Zydas chi pset = no dri ver

Ralink RT3070

FCC ID 802.11 n WLAN, PID 0x3070, VID 0x148F. No drivers for this Chipset yet. However Ralink provides sources for Linux. ( http://www.ralinktech.com. tw/data/drivers/2009_0525_RT3070_Linux_STA_v2.1.1.0.bz2 )

Syntek STK9100, STK9230

PID 0x0100, VID 0x05e1. No drivers for this Chipset yet.

No driver

Not working - Should but doesn't Vendor

Device

3Com Netgear

3CRWE154G72 WG511

TechnicLAN WUSB54GR VCTnet

AirXpress PC11Bx

MAC range

Chipset

Status

Intersil PrismGT Intersil PrismGT

not working Some users have reported it works, some have reported it hasn't. YMMV. Works if Vendor ID 0x148F and Product ID 0x2573 are added to UsbVendorsRT73.plist!

Ralink RT73 Intersil Prism2 USB

Reported not working. Need more details....

Have a USB based device you would like a driver for? Send one to Geoff and he'll see what he can do!