{"id":89,"date":"2026-09-01T00:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/?p=89"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:10:37","slug":"proxmark-5-first-time-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Proxmark 5 first time setup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proxmark5 is really an impressive piece of tech but unfortunately you do get kinda thrown in the deep end with it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, first thing you need to do is get the client set up. Get into the directory you want to put it in, then run<br><br>git clone https:\/\/github.com\/RfidResearchGroup\/proxmark3.git<br>cd proxmark3<br>make clean<br><br>then, EITHER<br>make -j PLATFORM=PM5 <br>OR<br>make -j PLATFORM=PM5 PLATFORM_EXTRAS=BWM<br><br>then, run<br>sudo make install<br><br>If you have the battery\/bluetooth\/wifi addon module then use the second command. If you don&#8217;t have it, then use the first.<br><br>After that&#8217;s all compiled and whatnot then it&#8217;s time to flash the proxmark5. First flash the bootrom then the firmware image with the following commands:<br>.\/pm3-flash-bootrom<br>.\/pm3-flash-fullimage<br><br>You can also run .\/pm3-flash-all which will do both steps, but just in case something goes wrong the first time, it&#8217;s advisable to run them separately<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that is done, run &#8220;pm3 &#8211;list&#8221;, it should show you your device<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">pm3 by itself will launch the client and scan for, then automatically connect to your proxmark5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proxmark5 is really an impressive piece of tech but unfortunately you do get kinda thrown in the deep end with it So, first thing you need to do is get the client set up. Get into the directory you want to put it in, then run git clone https:\/\/github.com\/RfidResearchGroup\/proxmark3.gitcd proxmark3make clean then, EITHERmake -j [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}