as a 100% noob to any sort of pentesting and to linux fullstop. then being able to understand what they are for will take a little more time than is expected. as compared to a person who is a veteran such as yourslf. you, i suppose have been running and writing script for years and i however have been learning for like three months starting from the very beginning.

i do believe there was a time in your life where you knew absloutley nothing about programming or pentesting. only problem is i just wanted to learn how to make my ap more secure. but now the realisation of just how much there is to learn about, not only the bthh but about all aspects of programming, pentesting and remote exploitation has got me studying perl, c++, backtrack, ubuntu and anything else i find and feel that is relevent. i diddnt mean to sound twatish but i got no direct replies which is what bothered me. so sorry for being upperty but as i say all i wanted was to make my ap real secure. i thought there would be a simple explaination of how to do this but i was wrong. as there is (which i know now) no simple explaination as without knowlege of what hackers can do then basically your screwed.

so i appologise once again if i offended.

if i had of gotten an answer when i first posted that these tests were written to be used within linux then i would of not asked such rediculouse questions.

is there a forum on gnu citizen you could suggest i take a look at. like a newbie area or similar. something basic to build my knowledge.

To suggest we’ve not tried to be helpful is both untrue, and frankly rather rude. Some commercial products receive less support than you lot are getting.

If you can’t understand the processes described above, then you WON’T make any progress with this. Give up.

I only came here to mention the new BTHomeHub 2.0 and to ask if anybody has one yet, but seeing comments like yours from ungrateful people who have made NO effort to understand the subject matter really does annoy me.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if you DO get it working, you won’t bother posting your solution and we’ll never hear from you again.

Weak guys, real weak.

Ed

there is a step by step at the top of the thread posted by edward pearson. which i am afraid is the only one you will find.

i have also noticed that ppl on here like not to be asked questions. i have posted twice already and got no reply to any of my questions.

i personally just went on to use backtrack linx and sorted it that way if you ask me personally it sucks to not get a reply in a forum but this ones a bit strange.

any way good luck on finding some info. by the way i believe running the scripts within linux it the answer.

It will be slower as I can’t be bothered to figure out the Vista equivalent of the WMI part.

But it works :)

As stated, there isn’t that much that can go wrong, I suggest all of you having problems go here: http://www.engl.co.uk/products/zwlancfg/index.html and download the latest copy of zwlancfg.

One problem I have experianced in Vista (as stated, this WILL NOT WORK in Vista), is that you can’t use my method to query the WMI, and check the wireless is up, as this will cause it to hang BEFORE displaying “Alive”. If it’s hanging after this I sugget you look at the “waitToDie” method, although if “waitToStart” works, I don’t see why “waitToDie” wouldn’t.

The only other thing I suggest is you add a few: WScript.Echo “Reached line X” in some choice places, and find out where its failing from.

Why not try and execute zwlancfg yourself, try and add a profile? Think outside of the box people.

I have done my best to support this script, in the past comments I have outlined, in detail, exactly how it works, if you can’t do some simple debugging on a basic VBScript, then too bad.

Game Over, its up to you lot now.

I have successfully managed to get your VB script working, in that if I edit the key file to conmtain my key as the first line it will connect.

When I put my key as the second line (either in the string or making the file line by line) it fails to read it and hangs at the “Alive” prompt showing the first key.

I have read the script and can understand the process being followed, but cannot see why it would hang….. I know it works (as proven above) but cannot get the loop to loop….

Also just to note for all others that this will work on a non BT HH router(the script to connect) but you need a different way to generate the keys. (anyone figured out any other alogrithms yet… I have tried but seemingly failed miserably).

Thanks for any assistance.

Script runs and shows trying key “************” with ALIVE under it - then just sits there -hanging about - doesnt try and connect or anything - WZC is enabled and have latest version of zwlancfg, also ran the xp hotfix etc without sp3.

After these changes the script successfully run and connected to my network!

Thank you for releasing this as I have learned a fair bit of knowledge during the pursuit of getting this up and running.

Trying key: 1234567890
C:\BTHHkey.vbs(27,2) (null): This application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Am I doing something blatently wrong or do I need to go in and change the script?

cheers

kev

I have checked everything, and what I get is It sits at alive then i fail to get an IP and it says limited connectivity.

I know its frustrating getting all these questions, but I am just curious to why it doesnt want to work

Thank you for the reply and all you’re work. Just to clear this up, I am not attempting to get free Internet, I am attempting to progress my knowledge of network security and am trying to use this script on my own BTHomehub, my WEP key is in the genrated list however I wanted to see how the script operates and watch it in action, I apologize if I have offended you with my questions, however I was just looking to learn as research can only get you so far, I was looking for some input from someone experienced on this field, which you have given me in your last post, I will check everything over and have another attempt, thank you for your info!

Have a look at the VBScript, there’s plenty that could go wrong.

To reiterate:
This will not work on Vista.

This will not work unless the Windows “Wireless Zero Config” is active. Not a 3rd party program.

This relys on “zwlancfg.exe” to automate WZC, if it doesn’t work, then neither will this script.

Before you run the script, you must first disconnect any and all wireless networks. “Automatic” networks, must be set to “Manual”.

The script works by adding a new Automatic wireless profile to WZC, at which point Windows should automatically try to connect, if automatic connections are off, then this script will fail.

When the script displays “Alive”, it means it has added the profile to WZC, and is waiting for a wireless connection to be established (it does this by checking signal strength). Open WZC and look at the target network, what is it’s status?

Once a connection has been established, a normal Windows install will attempt to get an IP through DHCP, again, this must be enabled for this to work.

My script will wait 3 seconds (ample time for DHCP to respond on my machine), and then attempt to ping Google, it that fails, it’ll disconnect and move onto the next key.

0days of old often contained deliberate mistakes to deter script kiddies. If you don’t understand what’s going on here, then try and learn rather than hoping somebody will come up with instructions you can blindly follow.

If you’re not capable of understanding what the script is doing, and where it may go wrong, then you don’t deserve free internet. Do what most of us did and work it out for yourselves, it’s not that hard.