[Madwifi-users] Unable to inject with Atheros

[Amira S. <kh...@fa...>]

 Greetings, Madwifi List

My story is long but i will try to be brief. I started out this 
adventure by installling the Auditor security collection, which is based 
on Knoppix and Debian. My hardware base is an IBM Thinkpad T30 with a 
Proxim 8470-WD 802.11 b/g.  During my experience with the Auditor 
security collection, I had the ability  to monitor and inject somewhat 
but the kernel would crash all the time, suggesting that the Debian 
platform had some flaw from which I could not recover (refer to my posts 
at the Auditor discussion board for my experiences there: 
http://forum.remote-exploit.org/viewtopic.php?t=1009).

The next step was so install Fedora Core 3 and try my luck with the 
madwifi drivers there. I installed FC3, installed the kernel source, and 
installed and updated the madwifi drivers. Although the kernel did not 
panic all the time as it did with the Debian platform, I do not have the 
ability to inject packets. My benchmark is the aircrack suite, whick 
includes airodump and aireplay - among the best in wireless utilities 
that I have yet found.

Aireplay with Debian allowed me to issue -0 (Deauthentication) and -1 
(Fake authenticaiton) attacks but these attacks have no effect  under my 
FC3  and updated madwifi installation. Any attempt to issue a DEAUTH or 
Fake Authentication against a target test network results in no activity 
whatsoever.

Under FC3:

[khal]# ./aireplay -1 0 -e test-linksys -a target_BSSID -h 
Associated_client_MAC ath0
21:23:23  Sending Authentication Request
21:23:25  Sending Authentication Request
21:23:27  Sending Authentication Request
,, and so on

[khal]# ./aireplay -0 2 -a target_BSSID ath0
21:15:57  Sending DeAuth to broadcast -- BSSID: [target_BSSID]
21:15:59  Sending DeAuth to broadcast -- BSSID: [target_BSSID]
21:16:01  Sending DeAuth to broadcast -- BSSID: [target_BSSID]
.. and so on

I dont know where else to to turn to determine why I cannot get this to 
work correctly.  What am I missing?