Windows Vista introduced the long awaited feature of Monitor mode for normal everyday wireless adapters. While you still can't do packet injection without resorting to expensive solutions like AirPCap TX, it's still a very useful feature to have when testing wireless security.
However tools like airodump-ng doesn't support this method as of yet, and most of the good tools for working with this are in Linux anyway, so I was looking for a way to convert NetMonitor packet captures to tcpdump/pcap format when I came across the nm2lp utility by Josh Wright which does exactly that.
Unfortunately it seems to be incompatible with x64 Windows (At least not without recompiling as 64 bit binary) and crashed on my laptop. So in good opensource tradition I decided to reinvent the wheel, this time in C# and called it nm2pcap. Afterwards I also built a airserve-ng compatible server NMServe which uses NetMonitor API to capture packets and serve them to any airodump-ng client.
NMServe enables you to use a non USB wireless adapter with a airodump-ng instance running on a VMWare BackTrack 4 installation which you otherwise can't do since VMWare doesnt support non usb devices to be attached to the guest os. You could even use it with the windows airodump-ng binaries though that seems a bit flaky. The only snag is that it cannot put the adapter into Monitor mode automatically. You will need to do it manually using the nmwifi.exe which comes with NetMonitor before running NMServe. I'd probably fix this later.
The NMUtils binaries and the source code are available under LGPL v2 license.
Wiimote Whiteboard with Windows x64 support.
I NO LONGER SHARE THESE FILES. I BELIEVE THERE ARE BETTER SOFTWARE THAN THIS NOW AVAILABLE.
I updated Johnny Chung Lee's original Wiimote Whiteboard with a couple of new features and bug fixes including:
- Compatibility with 64 bit Windows (Tested on Windows 7)
- Automatic bluetooth pairing on MS Bluetooth stack
- Minor ui updates
I'm calling it version 1.2 for no particular reason
Wiimote newbie tips
Having recently come across the Wiimote whiteboard by Johnny Chung Lee, I bought a Wii controller to test it. I learned a few things which were not obvious on most blogs and wikis which might help out a new user:
- Wiimote Whiteboard v0.3 software on Johnny's blog does not work with Windows 7 64 bit.
- After pairing the Wiimote with the PC, the lights on the Wiimote keeps on blinking till it's turned off by software. I kept thinking that it was not paired properly when infact it was. I found the WPF wii data visualizer tool to be the best application to test that the controller is working properly.
- After every session you must pair the Wiimote anew. That is you should delete any existing paring with the wiimote from the bluetooth device manager and pair it again as if it was the first time.
- Sometimes even though the device is paired successfully the applications does not detect it's presence or does not receive any data from it. In these cases I found that you need to take out one of the batteries for a few seconds and then put it back again to reset it. Trying to sync it by holding down 1 & 2 or the red sync button did not seem to work.
- GlovePIE does work however you might have to disable the automatic connect (Click the "No Auto-Bluetooth Connect" option) and manually do the sync yourself, because sometimes it does not work.
- Most automatic connect software only work if you have a Microsoft bluetooth stack. If you have a Widcomm driver (my Dell Studio 1557 does) they usually do not work and you should pair the controller manually. Even software which does support the Widcomm driver like the Java Whiteboard did not work for me with the latest Widcomm driver. The only exception to this for me was GlovePIE though even that gave me trouble sometimes.
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