Also, the driver does not cooperate well with iw tools because it has its own ieee80211 stack. They can only offer connection to AP or Ad-Hoc networks.
These drivers do not allow operation of chip in the Monitor and AP modes but support Managed and Ad-hoc mode. On my laptop that has Broadcom 4312 chip, I installed Broadcom's proprietary driver(bc-wl) that is shipped along with Ubuntu or are available for download by default from their reposities/mirrors once you try to install 'Additional drivers' available under Settings when logged in via GUI session like Gnome or KDE. Compiling all my thoughts and actions here.įor those of you who do not know about reaver, Reaver is a tool that implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases.I use it as a penetration tool for checking security vulnerabilities and fixing issues.Ģ) Reaver needs to run in NIC'S Monitor mode. I struggled a lot to get it working and finally managed to hit the nail on the head. If you are trying to run reaver on the HP Laptop with Broadcom 4312 Wireless chip on Ubuntu 12.04, this ost will help you.
