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Linksys Wusb54g

Hardware Info
Hardware Version 4
Antenna good ( Note: centrino notebook have a better antenna! )
Chipset: Ralink rt2570
Linux Driver: rt2570 (legacy), rt2500usb (rt2×00), ural (not tested)

My review
September 2006 There are some different driver. At moment the most stable and usable is the legacy ralink driver (rt2570.ko module). You can download and compile the last driver version:
rt2570 USB nightly CVS tarball
This driver support support also mac changing, monitor mode and packet injection and work fine with aircrack, aircrack-ng suite and Gnu macchanger.

26 October 2006- At moment i’m using the new rt2500usb driver (rt2×00 series), it works really fine, and i can use my device in monitor and maneged mode at same time (using 2 different interface Eg: wlan0 & wlan1 switched on the same channel).
Note: At moment rt2×00 don’t support packet injection.

My Antenna improvement
Catenna/Deflector & Wusb54g
Wusb54g have a simple and little omnidirectional antenna,
this is my wusb5g adaptor:
catenna2.jpg
and this is the signals in airodump-ng
withoutshield.png
with this shield (paper + alluminium):
catenna1.jpg catenna4.jpg
i’ve improved the strenght of the my antenna:
withshield.png
Another Catenna for wusb54g is:
parabolacartoneretro.jpg parabolacartone.jpg