USB 2.0 Wireless Capture Adapter
Installation Guide
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AirPcap USB 2.0 Wireless Capture Adapter Installation Guide
Document Version: 2.0
Document Revision: January 8, 2006
CACE Technologies, LLC
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 758-2790
(530) 758-2781 (fax)
support@cacetech.com
http://www.cacetech.com
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Contents and Figures
Contents
Introduction .........................................................4
Requirements.......................................................4
What is in the Box.................................................4
What is on the CD .................................................4
Driver Installation (Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista)....5
Wireshark Network Analyzer Installation..................7
Additional Tools Installation....................................8
Developers Resources Installation...........................8
Figures
Figure 1: The CD Setup Page – Driver Installation......................5
Figure 2: Found New Hardware Wizard.....................................6
Figure 3: The CD Setup Page – Wireshark Installation ................7
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Introduction
Welcome to CACE Technologies’ AirPcap wireless capture system. This Package
includes the AirPcap USB Wireless adapter, a CD containing the software necessary to
use it, and this Manual. The software on the CD includes: a Windows driver, a version
of WinPcap with wireless support, and a control panel for changing the adapter’s
settings.
Requirements
The minimum requirements to install and run the AirPcap Software are:
Pentium 3 processor
256 Mbyte RAM
USB 2.0 support
One of the following operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP Service
Pack 2 (32bit or x64 64bit), Windows 2003 (32bit or x64 64bit), Windows Vista
What is in the Box
One AirPcap USB adapter
This installation guide
The AirPcap Software Distribution CD
What is on the CD
The AirPcap Software Distribution CD contains:
The AirPcap driver, needed to use the adapter
This Installation Guide
A User’s Guide
The WiresharkTM Network Analyzer
A folder with additional tools (e.g. Kismet) and resources for developers
interested in directly accessing the AirPcap adapter from their applications.
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Driver Installation (Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista)
Important: Do NOT insert your USB adapter before installing the software. Please follow
the steps below and this guide will inform you when it is appropriate to insert
the adapter.
To install the software, follow these steps:
1. Power on your PC.
2. If you have a previous version of the AirPcap Software Distribution already
installed in your system, uninstall it by clicking on:
Control Panel >> Add or Remove Programs >> AirPcap Software
3. Insert the AirPcap Software Distribution CD into your CD drive.
4. The CD setup page should appear automatically. If it does not, please select
your CD-Rom Drive manually to open the setup page.
Figure 1: The CD Setup Page – Driver Installation
5. Click on “Install Driver” to initiate the installation.
6. Follow the installation instructions. The installer tries to detect if WinPcap is
already installed in the machine, and if the installed WinPcap version supports
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AirPcap wireless capture. If not, you will need to upgrade WinPcap during the
installation.
Upon completing the software installation, reboot the system if requested.
Important: Now plug your adapter into one of the machine’s USB ports.
Depending on the operating system version, when you plug the adapter into a USB
port for the first time, Windows may show the “Found New Hardware Wizard” (Figure
2).
Figure 2: Found New Hardware Wizard
Any time this happens, answer these questions (if they appear) in the following way:
Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for software?
→ Select “No, not this time”
What do you want the wizard to do?
→ Select “Install the software automatically”
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Wireshark Network Analyzer Installation
Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is the world’s most used network analyzer.
It is used by network professionals for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol
development, and education. The AirPcap Wireless adapter has been integrated into
Wireshark. Once you have installed Wireshark you can immediately start capturing and
analyzing 802.11 traffic.
To install Wireshark, follow these steps:
1. If you have a previous version of Wireshark already installed in your system,
uninstall it by clicking on:
Control Panel >> Add or Remove Programs >> Wireshark
Figure 3: The CD Setup Page – Wireshark Installation
2. Insert the AirPcap Software Distribution CD into your CD drive.
3. The CD setup page should appear automatically. If it does not, please select
your CD-Rom Drive manually to open the setup page.
4. Click on “Install the Wireshark Analyzer” to initiate the installation.
5. Follow the installation instructions.
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Additional Tools Installation
Additional AirPcap-compatible programs can be found in the installation CD, by clicking
on the “browse CD” button from the CD setup page, and then opening the programs
folder. The available tools include Kismet, Aircrack-ng, Cain & Abel and Windump.
Developers Resources Installation
CACE Technologies provides a developer’s pack with everything you need for using an
AirPcap adapter in your application for capturing 802.11 packets:
Include and lib files
Online API documentation
A ready-to-compile set of example programs that shows how to configure the
adapter and capture packets
The AirPcap Developer’s pack can be found in the “developers” folder of the AirPcap
Software Distribution CD. To use it, just copy the folder to your hard disk, and click on
“StartHere.html”.
The developer’s folder also contains a copy of the WinPcap developer’s pack, in the
“WinPcap_Devpack” subfolder. The AirPcap adapters are 100% compatible with
WinPcap, and this makes it straightforward to add 802.11 support to your existing
WinPcap-based application.
If you are interested in adding support for the AirPcap adapters in your program, you
can contact CACE Technologies for support; write to:
support@cacetech.com
Contact Us
CACE Technologies
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Tel: 530.758.2790
Fax: 530.758.2781
Web: www.cacetech.com
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