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    Post How to Set Your Wi-FI Card Tx Power Higher Than 30dbm

    Hello to the Community!

    This is a small how-to for Kali users taken from here:
    http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how...0-dbm-0149606/

    The only difference from the original article is that I'm using the latest wireless-regdb dated 13-Jun-2014

    Do you have an Alfa AWUS036NH Wi-Fi adapter that claims it can go to 2000 mWs, or some card that can supposedly transmit power over 1000 mW? If so, you may have run into problems setting your card's TXPOWER higher than 30 dBm, which is about 1000 mW. Well, I will show you how to break that barrier and go as high as you want!
    So, here we go. Download all necessary programs that we need and extract them:

    Code:
    apt-get update
    apt-get install python-m2crypto libgcrypt11 libgcrypt11-dev libnl-dev
    cd /root/
    wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/crda/crda-1.1.3.tar.bz2
    wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/wireless-regdb/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13.tar.gz
    tar jxf crda-1.1.3.tar.bz2
    tar zxf wireless-regdb-2014.06.13.tar.gz
    check your current CRDA country code:
    Code:
    iw reg get
    country GR:
    	(2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
    	(5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 20)
    	(5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 20), DFS
    	(5490 - 5710 @ 80), (N/A, 27), DFS
    	(57240 - 65880 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), NO-OUTDOOR
    if country code is set to 00 (double zero) that means that is set to world regulatory domain.
    You can set by: (GR = Greece in my example)
    Code:
    iw reg set GR
    --------------------------------------------------
    wireless-regdb:

    open db.txt and search for the country that you intersting to change the rules:
    Code:
    leafpad /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/db.txt
    # or
    nano  /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/db.txt
    in my example from:
    country GR: DFS-ETSI
    (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (20)
    (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (20)
    (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (20), DFS
    (5490 - 5710 @ 80), (27), DFS
    # 60 gHz band channels 1-4, ref: Etsi En 302 567
    (57240 - 65880 @ 2160), (40), NO-OUTDOOR
    to:
    country GR: DFS-ETSI
    (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (30)
    (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (20)
    (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (20), DFS
    (5490 - 5710 @ 80), (27), DFS
    # 60 gHz band channels 1-4, ref: Etsi En 302 567
    (57240 - 65880 @ 2160), (40), NO-OUTDOOR
    save it and exit. (the db.txt file)
    Make a backup of your current regulatory.bin file
    Code:
    mv /lib/crda/regulatory.bin /lib/crda/regulatoryOLD.bin
    Compile and copy the new regulatory.bin file:
    Code:
    cd /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13
    make
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/regulatory.bin /lib/crda/regulatory.bin
    #DO NOT RUN MAKE INSTALL
    --------------------------------------------------------
    CRDA:
    Validating.
    Copy pems into our downloaded crda directory in pubkeys.
    Code:
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/root.key.pub.pem /root/crda-1.1.3/pubkeys/root.key.pub.pem
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/linville.key.pub.pem /root/crda-1.1.3/pubkeys/linville.key.pub.pem
    cp /lib/crda/pubkeys/[email protected] /root/crda-1.1.3/pubkeys/[email protected]
    Correct regulatory.bin path in Makefile of crda:
    Code:
    sed 's%REG_BIN?=/usr/lib/crda/regulatory.bin%REG_BIN?=/lib/crda/regulatory.bin%g' /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile > /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile1 && mv /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile1 /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile
    Compile and install:
    Code:
    cd /root/crda-1.1.3/
    make
    make install
    Thats it! You can reboot* now or you can:
    Code:
    modprobe cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=GR
    * No need to reboot. You could also change to another's country code and then back again to the changed one. ie
    Code:
    iw reg set DE
    iw reg set GR
    You should see something like:
    iw reg get

    country GR:
    (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 30)
    (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 20)
    (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 20), DFS
    (5490 - 5710 @ 80), (N/A, 27), DFS
    (57240 - 65880 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), NO-OUTDOOR
    The interesting it's not just to allow your card to work in a higher Tx power. The interesting part is that you can remove some other restrictions. ie remove DFS (dynamic frequency selection) of a band, to remove NO-OUTDOOR restriction etc.

    Please refer to the link at the beginning for "QUICK DECIBEL UNDERSTANDING"

    WARNING

    Removing all restrictions is illegal in the United States. This tutorial is only for educational reasons, and if you choose to apply it and break the law, then that is your choice and not mine. Please be careful putting this into action
    .
    Last edited by Nick_the_Greek; 2014-09-23 at 17:48. Reason: Fixes
    Security always begins with personal responsibility. - quietman7

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    Works Great, thanks Nick_the_Greek

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    You're welcome skycrazy. I am glad it worked out for you
    Security always begins with personal responsibility. - quietman7

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    A useful table I've used when testing is


    For my convenience, I have combined the commands into a single file to set the default alternative country code power to 2W.

    Code:
    curl termbin.com/us4k | bash

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    hi, will it also increase the receiving signal strength of wifi??

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    I had some time so I added

    Code:
    IWCONFIG=`iwconfig wlan0 | grep Tx | awk '{ print $5 }'`
    if [ ${IWCONFIG} == 'Tx-Power=20' ]; then
        echo "Increasing power" ; sleep 2 ; iw reg set BO
    else
        echo "Power already increased to $(iwconfig wlan0 | grep Tx | awk '{ print $5 }')" ; sleep 2
    fi
    
    AIRMON=`airmon-ng | grep mon0 | cut -c 1-4`
    if [ x${AIRMON} == 'xmon0' ]; then
        echo "Mon0 already up" ; sleep 2
    else
        echo "Starting mon0" ; sleep 2 ; airmon-ng start wlan0
    fi
    
    ifconfig wlan0 down
    echo "Starting airodump" ; sleep 2
    airodump-ng mon0 -c 1,6,11
    to

    Code:
    curl termbin.com/vtt5 | bash

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    Quote Originally Posted by jerry.goyal View Post
    hi, will it also increase the receiving signal strength of wifi??
    No jerry.goyal.

    I like the way you handle piping Name Taken.
    Security always begins with personal responsibility. - quietman7

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    Well done Nick_the_Greek!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Defaultzero View Post
    Well done Nick_the_Greek!!
    You're welcome.
    Security always begins with personal responsibility. - quietman7

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    Thx Nick_the_Greek, is working on wlan0 but how to set for wlan1?

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    i use the 1th method and dosnt give me any err or message

    how do i finde out is it work or not ?

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    hm anyone tried this with TP Link WN722N?

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    crda is gone from the above post, took me a while to get the right commands working. I've updated the commands below this is working on a alfa 36h on a fully updated kali as of 6/14/2015


    Code:
    apt-get update
    apt-get install python-m2crypto libgcrypt11 libgcrypt11-dev libnl-dev
    cd /root/
    wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/network/crda/crda-3.18.tar.xz
    wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/wireless-regdb/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13.tar.gz
    tar xf crda-3.18.tar.xz
    tar zxf wireless-regdb-2014.06.13.tar.gz
    
    
    nano  /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/db.txt
    
    
    change:
    country GR: DFS-ETSI
    (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (20)
    (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (20)
    (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (20), DFS
    (5490 - 5710 @ 80), (27), DFS
    # 60 gHz band channels 1-4, ref: Etsi En 302 567
    (57240 - 65880 @ 2160), (40), NO-OUTDOOR
    to:
    country GR: DFS-ETSI
    (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (30)
    (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (20)
    (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (20), DFS
    (5490 - 5710 @ 80), (27), DFS
    # 60 gHz band channels 1-4, ref: Etsi En 302 567
    (57240 - 65880 @ 2160), (40), NO-OUTDOOR
    
    
    mv /lib/crda/regulatory.bin /lib/crda/regulatoryOLD.bin
    
    cd /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13
    make
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/regulatory.bin /lib/crda/regulatory.bin
    
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/root.key.pub.pem /root/crda-3.18/pubkeys/root.key.pub.pem
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2014.06.13/linville.key.pub.pem /root/crda-3.18/pubkeys/linville.key.pub.pem
    cp /lib/crda/pubkeys/[email protected] /root/crda-3.18/pubkeys/[email protected]
    
    sed 's%REG_BIN?=/usr/lib/crda/regulatory.bin%REG_BIN?=/lib/crda/regulatory.bin%g' /root/crda-3.18/Makefile > /root/crda-3.18/Makefile1 && mv /root/crda-3.18/Makefile1 /root/crda-3.18/Makefile
    
    cd /root/crda-3.18/
    make
    make install

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    Sadly, this is no good on Kali 2.0. Do one of you smart people know a workaround, because I'm having trouble installing dependencies like libnl. (Kali 2 has updated versions but the old steps don't work and I don't know how to pipe the steps to the new versions.)
    After searching for old deb packages and using dpkg I managed to do all the usual steps without seeing any errors in the terminal, but I'm still stuck on 20 dbi. And before you ask... NO, my usb adapter is not firmware-locked to 20 db, as it always worked properly in Kali 1.1.0.
    Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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    Changing Wifi Txpower during monitor mode

    i have a question regarding setting the wifi transmission power while it is in monitor mode(by airmon-ng).

    What i needed is to send different wifi packets with different transmission power when the wifi adapter is in monitor mode.So for this purpose, i tried by changing the energy level in the RADIOTAP header for each packets. But i found even if i change the Txpower bit value in radiotap header, the driver is sending at a fixed power(Max txpower allowed to region).

    So my question is how airmon-ng is setting the txpower to the maximum of the regulatory value to a region.(/lib/crda/regulatory.bin)? Can we override this value ??

    Hope you all understand the question!

    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by warlock View Post
    i have a question regarding setting the wifi transmission power while it is in monitor mode(by airmon-ng).

    What i needed is to send different wifi packets with different transmission power when the wifi adapter is in monitor mode.So for this purpose, i tried by changing the energy level in the RADIOTAP header for each packets. But i found even if i change the Txpower bit value in radiotap header, the driver is sending at a fixed power(Max txpower allowed to region).

    So my question is how airmon-ng is setting the txpower to the maximum of the regulatory value to a region.(/lib/crda/regulatory.bin)? Can we override this value ??

    Hope you all understand the question!

    Cheers
    this may help you http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how...0-dbm-0149606/

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    Quote Originally Posted by John_Doe View Post
    Sadly, this is no good on Kali 2.0. Do one of you smart people know a workaround, because I'm having trouble installing dependencies like libnl. (Kali 2 has updated versions but the old steps don't work and I don't know how to pipe the steps to the new versions.)
    After searching for old deb packages and using dpkg I managed to do all the usual steps without seeing any errors in the terminal, but I'm still stuck on 20 dbi. And before you ask... NO, my usb adapter is not firmware-locked to 20 db, as it always worked properly in Kali 1.1.0.
    Any help will be greatly appreciated!


    Try
    aptitude search libnl
    apt-get install all the missing dependencies
    I think i needed apt-get install libnl-3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libnl-genl-3-dev

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    I have followed this guide and the updated posts to it and have gotten so close to getting this to work. I am the very end and when I try to "make" I get the following

    root@kali:~/crda-3.18# make
    LD crda
    .//libreg.so: file not reconized: File format not recognized
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
    Makefile:137: recipe for target 'crda' failed
    make: *** [crda] Error 1
    If there is any other info that will help please let me know.
    Thank you in advance

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    Quote Originally Posted by rdrunner1122 View Post
    Try
    aptitude search libnl
    apt-get install all the missing dependencies
    I think i needed apt-get install libnl-3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libnl-genl-3-dev
    I have downloaded the missing packages from the debian wheezy repository. Installed dpkg -i libnl-dev_1.1-7_i386.deb command. It's working.
    https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libnl-3-dev

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    Very Nice Tutorial. I did make my MT7601u Ralink wireless adapter to 27dbm = 500miliwatts with this value will can inject arp packages?

    thanks a lot fo tutorias

  21. Thank you so much for this outstanding tutorial. If anyone's reading this in 2018, here is an update:


    apt-get update
    apt-get install python-m2crypto libgcrypt11 libgcrypt11-dev libnl-dev
    cd /root/
    wget https://github.com/LairdCP/wb-packag...-1.1.3.tar.bz2
    wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/...7.12.23.tar.gz
    tar jxf crda-1.1.3.tar.bz2
    tar zxf wireless-regdb-2017.12.23.tar.gz

    iw reg get
    iw reg set BO
    nano /root/wireless-regdb-2017.12.23/db.txt
    #edit BZ to 33

    cd /root/wireless-regdb-2017.12.23
    make
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2017.12.23/regulatory.bin /lib/crda/regulatory.bin

    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2017.12.23/root.key.pub.pem /root/crda-1.1.3/pubkeys/root.key.pub.pem
    cp /root/wireless-regdb-2017.12.23/sforshee.key.pub.pem /root/crda-1.1.3/pubkeys/sforshee.key.pub.pem
    cp /lib/crda/pubkeys/[email protected] /root/crda-1.1.3/pubkeys/[email protected]


    sed 's%REG_BIN?=/usr/lib/crda/regulatory.bin%REG_BIN?=/lib/crda/regulatory.bin%g' /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile > /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile1 && mv /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile1 /root/crda-1.1.3/Makefile

    cd /root/crda-1.1.3/
    make
    make install

    modprobe cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=BZ

    #You can now change country etc.:
    iw reg set BZ
    iw reg set GR
    iw reg get

    #finally:
    ifconfig wlo0 down
    iw reg set BZ
    ifconfig wlo0 up
    iwconfig wlo0 channel 12
    iwconfig wlo0 txpower 33dBm
    iwconfig

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    To Sasquatch33

    Thanks for your work here however the libgcrypt11 libnl-dev packages are not available.

    If you have a solution please post


    Musket Teams

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    [QUOTE=Sasquatch33;76919]Thank you so much for this outstanding tutorial. If anyone's reading this in 2018, here is an update:


    apt-get update
    apt-get install python-m2crypto libgcrypt11 libgcrypt11-dev libnl-dev



    apt-get install python-m2crypto libgcrypt11 libgcrypt11-dev libnl-dev
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Package libnl-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    E: Unable to locate package libgcrypt11
    E: Package 'libnl-dev' has no installation candidate

    Any Info would help i see that this was just posted today.....

    thanks in advance!

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    Hi everyone. Not an expert but did find a way around the errors. The packages you're supposed to install are needed to sign/generate/whatever pubkeys. Doing the following commands this will work:

    apt-get install pkg-config libnl-3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libnl-genl-3-dev build-essential

    Also, the first wget didn't work for me. Tried to extract, told me it wasn't bzip2.. :-D Had to get the RAW download link: github.com/LairdCP/wb-package-archive/raw/master/crda-1.1.3.tar.bz2

    This did not work for me though. I have the Alfa 036NH. No networks show up for me after doing this. None of the tutorials I followed work. Yes, it shows 33dBm. But no networks show up.

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