Pineapple Setup

Summary

Setup and Firmware upgrade [optional] of Wifi Pineapple Nano

Requirements

• Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic amd64

Description

Basic setup

• Connect antennas and USB Y cable, WiFi Pineapple NANO needs a stable USB power supply capable of providing 9W for initial setup. Therefore plug both USB Ports of USB Y cable into the Laptop. After that he blue led should have solid light.

• Use lusb to verify that pineapple ASIX Electronics is recognized by your laptop

  lsusb
  ... 
  Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b95:772a ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88772A Fast Ethernet
  ...

• Check networking interface and ip address

  sudo ifconfig
  enx00c0ca91b581: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
       inet 172.16.42.107  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 172.16.42.255
       inet6 fe80::d2b0:568c:b39b:4c44  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
       ether 00:c0:ca:91:b5:81  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
       RX packets 15  bytes 1589 (1.5 KiB)
       RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
       TX packets 40  bytes 5589 (5.4 KiB)
       TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

• Browse to the determined IP address 172.16.42.1:1471

The Web interface should appear.

Upgrade to newest firmware version 2.5.4 [optional]

• Download newest firmware from https://www.wifipineapple.com/downloads and verify shasum:

  sha256sum upgrade-2.5.4.bin 
  98b6190393ed3bc270966645f94a4fdbe21ea8f2d74dec88d88267fe60d3dc85 upgrade-2.5.4.bin

• Select file with newest firmware upgrade-2.5.4.bin in the Web interface
  • press reset button
  • wait until firmware upgrade successfully verified appears
• After upgrade connect again to 172.16.42.107:1471 and get into Device Configuration
  • Set root password for ssh and web interface access
  • pwd: <ask for>
• Management AP Setup
  • Management SSID:
  • WPA2 pwd: <ask for>
  • check Hide Management AP
• Open AP Setup

 is used for the target to connect to: f.e. **netlab**
 

• Run with wp6.sh script

       gwget wifipineapple.com/wp6.sh
       chmod +x wp6.sh
       ./wp6.sh 

Used Hardware

Wifi Pineapple Nano

Courses

• Campus Cyber Security Team WiFi Hacking 21.06.2019

References

• https://docs.hak5.org/hc/en-us/articles/360010555313-Setup-Basics
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrHbEZd4t00