The Senao 2511-CDPLUS-EXT2 was my all-around favorite card before the Ubiquiti SRC 300mW. The 2511 is still my second favorite, BTW, despite its age. Killer card when used with hostap and the right...

Power savings mode is biting you in the ass, is my bet. In Windows, when you're on battery power the Ubiquiti basically goes half-blind, I've found. You just have to explicitly turn that off by...

What are you using for "power reading"? From my experience, I've noted that Linux drivers are not accurate in how they represent received signal for a number of cards / chipsets.

I recommend...

Roger THAT. And I wasn't trying to suggest you thought otherwise, either. I know better. heh.

I guess I was just complaining out loud that folks are always on the look out for the holy grail of...

Yes, but the Ubiquiti DOES have great receive sensitivity. Heck, ANY card around -90 dBm is respectable. We all used to just LOVE the old-school Lucent Orinoco Golds because they had -85 or -87 dBm...

Fuzzing 802.1x is what you want to do.

The quick place to start would be with modifying source of wpa_supplicant to spew some garbage and watch what happens with some APs or authentication server...

Actually, I've found that in BT2, cowpatty fails to think it has a complete handshake when some EAPOL frames appear "malformed" whereas aircrack-ng can take the same handshake and work just fine.
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The D-Link WNA-1330 works great with monitor, injection, etc. I just posted about one tiny bug I found, but it's not a real problem. $39 at Circuit City etc.

The best card you can get right now,...

In Backtrack 2, just a few commands will get your Atheros-based card up and running on a WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK protected network.

wpa_passphrase wifightclub “passphrase 123” >...

First, I doubt the Super Cantenna counts as a "high dollar external antenna".

Antenna performance is highly linked to overall design and manufacturer quality. So my first guess is that you have a...

FYI, I picked up a couple D-Link WNA-1330 cards this past week. They work pretty well with madwifi-ng and Backtrack of course. I did find one "bug", though.

When the card is enabled and in...