Installing Drivers

As of now, Aireplay-ng only supports injection on Prism2, PrismGT (FullMAC), Atheros, RTL8180, RTL8187 and Ralink. Injection on Centrino, Hermes, ACX1xx, Aironet, ZyDAS, Marvell and Broadcom is not supported because of firmware and/or driver limitations.

Nearly all drivers (that can support injection) needs to be patched to support injection in Monitor mode.
You will need the following to compile drivers:

• Linux kernel headers that match your current running kernel.
• The same gcc version that was used to compile your kernel. At least make sure that the first two version numbers or the compiler are thesame (e.g. it’s OK to use gcc 3.4.6 to compile the driver if the kernel was compiled by gcc 3.4.2). Ignoring this rule will cause Invalid module format errors during module load.
• Always use latest patches that you can find here

Note: if you’re using drivers given with your distro they AREN’T patched.

• madwifi-old
• madwifi-ng
• prism54
• HostAP
• wlan-ng
• r8180-sa2400
• r8187
• rt2500
• rt2570
• rt61
• rt73
• broadcom (outdated)

On windows, currently, only monitoring is supported. Stock drivers doesn’t support monitoring, you’ll have to install wildpacket driver.

To make it short, all Atheros cards should be supported. Centrino or USB adapter are not supported.
See Compatibility, Drivers, Which Card to Purchase for a complete list of supported chipsets.
In the next release (0.7.1), Airpcap adapter will be supported.

• Installing wildpacket drivers