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hego555
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Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-25-2012 11:58 PM

I need a laptop with a Atheros wireless adapter, if there are any in bestbuy or else where, please link here Smiley Happy

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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 12:20 AM

It's hard to tell which chipset will be in any given laptop.

Can I ask why you need that specific chipset?



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Unfortunately, that's the bad luck of any electronic, there's going to be bad Apples... wait that's a horrible pun.
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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:14 AM

I wish to do security testing against wireless access points, Atheros works very well and I have had a pleasant experience with it.

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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:16 AM

Make sure you get the newest version of BT Smiley Wink

Honestly, it's a crap shoot. Most laptops will support it.



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Unfortunately, that's the bad luck of any electronic, there's going to be bad Apples... wait that's a horrible pun.
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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:22 AM

Ha, I will make sure to download R3 or R4 if its out by then.

 

I have seen many laptops with a supported chipset, but it is a gamble... maybe I can go to the store and look at the chipset there.

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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:23 AM

I'm not too keen about R3 yet, but it's growing on me.

What I did was watched Craigslist for a cheap netbook. It runs BT very well, I can look at my ASUS to tell you what it has. Give me a few to turn it on.



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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:27 AM

Interesting, BT doesn't recognize which chipset I have, but it works fine.

I think they're building in more support, but obviously you know that some chipsets are better than others.




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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:28 AM

If they do add new support it might be buggy. I just want to get it and boot on linux, no driver patching or making sure monitor mode is supported

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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:30 AM

Well. Come to think of it, you could just put the ISO onto a flash drive using UNetBootIn and take it with you and boot it on the display laptops. Lol, might get a few weird looks, but it shouldn't be a problem.



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Unfortunately, that's the bad luck of any electronic, there's going to be bad Apples... wait that's a horrible pun.
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Re: Atheros Wireless Adapter

‎11-26-2012 01:34 AM

I dont think the best buy guys would be to okay with me booting linux onto their computers and testing if wireless hacking software works fine Smiley Happy

 

In total bestbuy wouldn't be to happy with somone getting 100% control over their display laptops.

 

Would be fun though.

 

I have a old laptop that has Atheros, Sony Vaio... cant get exact details at the moment, but it had Atheros and worked wonderfully... I just dont know if they make the same laptop.

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