Just got back from my beach vacation, where I enjoyed a week pretty much unplugged and off the cloud (though admittedly not entirely by choice). The rental we were staying in had only three networks in range, with the two strongest protected by encryption (one using WPA, one using WEP), and the one unencrypted network was too far to establish a reliable connection.
Unfortunately, after recently reinstalling Ubuntu on my laptop, I no longer had airsnort installed to help grease my way into a wireless connection, although I never had much luck with airsnort anyways, as my old Cisco Aironet card was only somewhat supported.
Alas, I have been inspired to learn how to use aircrack-ng. While it lacks a pretty GUI that airsnort had, it seems that this set of tools is a bit more robust, faster, and works with both WEP and WPA-PSK keys.
I've installed it on my laptop and had the chance to monkey with it a little bit, although I have yet to successfully crack a WEP key. My goal is to do so by the end of this week.
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