hcxdumptool and OpenWRT

[ZerBea]

Starting in February 2022, support for ARMv5 and ARMv6 architectures have been ended in Arch Linux ARM:
https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15721

OpenWRT is by far the best alternative.

As of today I changed the recommendation for the operating system (README.md):

For small computer systems like a Raspberry Pi or a router I strongly recommend OpenWRT.

• lightweight
• incredible performance
• optimized WiFi drivers
• easy to install
• easy to configure
• well documented
• hcxdumptool is running out of the box (provided that OpenWRT is correctly installed and configured)

It is easy to create an image if you follow the instructions here:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem

It is easy to compile hcxdumptool for OpenWRT, if you follow the instructions here:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/helloworld/start

Or get a "Raspberry Pi Ready-to-use" image here:
https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi

Or get a user defined image here:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/

All supported devices:
https://openwrt.org/toh/start

[vertexgamer]

oh interesting, might be useful for a headless rpi zero install

[ZerBea]

Exactly that's what it's made for:
https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool/wiki/Penetration-testing-system-1

[ZerBea]

I recommend to use OpenWRT image builder to build the image for a Raspberry Pi.
And I recommend to change the default configs, because they may not work as expected, e.g.:
#421 (comment)

By the way, this also applies to KALI: hcxdumptool may not work as expected if it is not configured/customized.