Guide to install AirCrack-ng on Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion in 5 simple steps.
What is Aircrack ?
Aircrack-ng is a network software suite consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs. It works with any wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw monitoring mode and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic. The program runs under Linux and Windows; the Linux version has been ported to the Zaurusand Maemo platforms, and a proof-of-concept port has been made to the iPhone.
Instructions to install AirCrack-ng on Mac
1. Download and install Xcode
Xcode Information – Apple Developer Website
Download Link – Mac App Store / Developer Website
2.Download Xcode Command Line Tools
Developer Website – Link
To install the tools, go to the Downloads tab within the Xcode Preferences menu and click “Install” next to the Command Line Tools entry.
3. Download and install MacPorts
The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.
Download – Link
4. Open Terminal and Update Mac Ports
sudo port -v selfupdate
5. Install AirCrack-ng
sudo port install aircrack-ng
Hey, I was able to install aircrack-ng successfully. But i’m not able to run airmon-ng. I tried sudo but it says Wireless tools not found”
Which version of Mac OS X are you using ?
Mine is v10.8.3
I’m getting the exact same error in 10.8.3 mid 2011 iMac.
Oh I see. airmon-ng doesn’t work in OS X. What’s the work-around for turning on monitor mode?
Aircrack alone can not re-inject or Monitor Wifi. airodump-ng and aireplay-ng are linux only and will not work under OSX, so for reinjecting and sniffing you need use something like KisMAC.
Limited Functionality on Mac OS X. You still need some thing like KisMAC to Monitor networks
Is Mac OS X supported?
The aircrack-ng suite has limited Mac OS X support. Currently it only supports the following tools: aircrack-ng, packetforge-ng, ivstools and makeivs. Any program which requires opening a wireless interface is not supported.
the text bellow was extracted from the official homepage of aircrack, it’s here
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=faq
Yes , I’m aware of that. Limited support. Hoping the community grows and the support base too
Use KisMAC to capture and Aircrack to crack.
Pyrit-CUDA does extremely well on WPA, but does not do WEP.
You can also use Backtrack….
Great tutorial, works like a charm
brew install aircrack-ng
hi, I have a macbook lion 10.7.5 I want to download the software that “Air Crack-ng” the problem is that in Algeria we can not use the credit card so if you can send me another software or a quote or I can download another, I would be very pleased if you could help me
Why do you need a credit card ? Did you follow the method I’ve mentioned in this post ?
It’s killing me off.
MacPorts doesn’t want update itself.
And Aircrack doesn’t want to install.
The first one told me :
sudo port -v selfupdate
—> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Connection refused (61)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv –delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
Exit code: 10
Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
The second one told :
sudo port install aircrack-ng
Error: Port aircrack-ng not found
I’m using OS X 10.8.4
I’ve installed the last version of MacPorts
I’ve got Xcode and my command line tools is updated too.
Is there anybody in there who can help me ?
Have you tried using Homebrew instead of MacPorts?
http://brew.sh/
u can download git from http://mac.github.com and macbook: git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng.git
Thanks! Work’s perfect for me!
super thank y0u..this is tidy
Hi~Jacob, I can not run sudo airmon-ng.
$ sudo airmon-ng
Wireless tools not found
What is this??
Nice Post
There is definately a lot to find out about this issue.
I really like all the points you made.