Wi-Fi: Hak5 Wifi Coconut

The WiFi Coconut source works with the Hak5 WiFi Coconut, a USB device with 14 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radios.

Kismet will auto-detect Coconut devices as hak5_coconut, or you may manually specify the type:

source=coconut:type=hak5_coconut

Supported hardware #

The WiFi Coconut source works with the Hak5 WiFi hardware.

Compiling Coconut support #

WiFi Coconut requires libUSB support, and you will need to enable Coconut support at compile time by passing --enable-wifi-coconut to ./configure.

WiFi Coconut support is also built into packages from the main Kismet repositories for Kali, Debian Bullseye, Debian Bookworm, Ubuntu Focal, and Ubuntu Jammy.

Kismet Hak5 WiFi Coconut support will also work on macOS!

Kismet WiFi Coconut support #

The WiFi Coconut presents as 14 Wi-Fi radios. Under Linux, these can either be configured as 14 independent sources in Kismet, or as the WiFi Coconut source.

When configured with Coconut support, Kismet will load the userspace driver from the WiFi Coconut tool, configure each radio on a channel, and report packets from all 14 2.4GHz channels simultaneously in Kismet.

Under macOS, there is no monitor-mode capable USB driver for the Wi-Fi card used in the Coconut, and the Kismet datasource is required.

BladeRF WiPhy source parameters #

Interfaces #

The WiFi Coconut is addressed as coconut-X where X is the position on the USB topology that the Coconut was found.

If there is only one Coconut, it can be configured as coconut; for multiple Coconut devices on a single system you will need to configure as the USB position, such as coconut-8.

Naming and description options #

All data sources accept the common naming and description options.

Coconut options #