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Installation Guide

Copyrights
Copyright © 2006-2008 CACE Technologies, Inc.

All rights reserved.

This document may not, in whole or part, be: copied; photocopied; reproduced;
translated; reduced; or transferred to any electronic medium or machine-readable
form without prior consent in writing from CACE Technologies, Inc.

AirPcap Installation Guide


Document Version: 4.0
Document Revision: October 9, 2008

CACE Technologies, Inc.


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/2008) . 5
Wireshark Network Analyzer Installation ........................ 7
Additional Tools Installation .......................................... 8
Developers Resources Installation ................................. 8
Contact Us ................................................................. 8

Figures
Figure 1: The CD Setup Page – Install Driver.................. 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 Installation


Guide applies to the all of the adapters in the AirPcap Product Family. These are
AirPcap Classic, Tx, Ex, N, and Nx.

Requirements
The minimum requirements to install and run the AirPcap Software are:

Pentium 3 processor
256 Mbyte RAM
USB 2.0 interface (or an appropriate interface for AirPcap N adapters)
One of the following operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP Service
Pack 2, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows 2008. There is x64 64-bit
support for all AirPcap adapters except for AirPcap N.

What is in the Box


One adapter from the AirPcap Product Family
This Installation Guide
The AirPcap Software Distribution CD
One (AirPcap Ex) or Two (AirPcap Nx) Pigtails: 30 cm MC to SMA cables
One (AirPcap Ex) or Two (AirPcap Nx) 2.4GHz band 5dBi antennas

What is on the CD
The AirPcap Software Distribution CD contains:

The AirPcap driver, needed to use the adapter


This Installation Guide
The AirPcap Family of Wireless Capture Adapters: User’s Guide
The Wireshark® Network Analyzer
A Folder with additional programs
Resources for developers interested in directly accessing the AirPcap adapter
from their applications

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Driver Installation (Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008)

Important: Do NOT insert your 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:
Start 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 – Install Driver.

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 an appropriate port on your machine.

Depending on the operating system version, when you plug the adapter in 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. Your 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:
Start 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.

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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