Using External Wi-Fi Adapters on Apple Silicon Macs with OrbStack
A Kali Linux VM running in OrbStack lets an Apple silicon Mac use USB Wi-Fi adapters such as the Netgear A8000 for scanning with WiFi Explorer Pro 3 and [...]
Choosing the Best Mac for Wi-Fi Analysis
Choosing a Mac for Wi-Fi analysis isn’t as simple as comparing processors or memory configurations. When running WiFi Explorer and other professional Wi-Fi tools, the Mac’s wireless hardware and [...]
Using Airtool Pi with the Oscium Nomad to Capture Wi-Fi Traffic
The Oscium Nomad is now fully supported in Airtool Pi, enabling powerful, multi-channel Wi-Fi packet captures directly from your iPhone or iPad. This integration is possible through a collaboration [...]
Multi-Channel Captures Using Airtool Pi
Airtool Pi allows you to effortlessly capture Wi-Fi frames from your iPhone or iPad using Linux-based remote sensors such as the WLAN Pi. It seamlessly connects to the sensor over [...]
Making Your WLAN Pi R4 Fully Portable
This post is a follow-up to our previous blog, which discussed the parts and steps to build a WLAN Pi R4 that you can use as a Wi-Fi 6E [...]
Building Your Own Remote Sensor with 6 GHz Support
Even though Macs don't support Wi-Fi 6E, WiFi Explorer Pro 3 and Airtool 2 offer visibility into the 6 GHz band when using remote sensors that can scan or capture traffic [...]
Meet Airtool 2’s Little Brother: Airtool Pi
Airtool Pi allows you to perform remote Wi-Fi packet captures from your iPhone or iPad using Linux-based sensors. Airtool Pi is Airtool 2's little brother. Both Airtool Pi and [...]
Capturing Wi-Fi Packets on Your Mac Using External Adapters
If you don't have a remote sensor, you can still do packet captures on one or more channels using external USB Wi-Fi adapters. However, because we can't use external adapters natively as we do with the Mac's built-in Wi-Fi adapter, we need EASE (External Adapter Support Environment).
Capturing Packet Traces from Your iOS Device
You can capture packet traces from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using Airtool 2. A packet trace capture from an iOS device records traffic at the network layer [...]
Using a Raspberry Pi 4 as a Remote Sensor for WiFi Explorer Pro and Airtool
This blog post will show you how to configure a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external Wi-Fi adapter to be used as a remote sensor in WiFi Explorer Pro and Airtool. We will assume you have a fresh installed Raspberry Pi 4 using Raspberry Pi OS.