Sovietism
2017-05-24, 18:22
I recently installed kali (64 bit for bootable usb) on my new computer and I am running in an issue where nor airodump, nor wifite detect any networks nearby. My wireless cart is a Quacom Atheros (QCA61x4) so it should be supported. Wifite worked fine on my last laptop and managed to find all networks fairly quickly. On the new one, however, even after a 2 minute scan, no stations are found. When running airodump-ng wlan0mon the window opens and it starts searching through the channels however nothing is listed in the table. I can connect via WiFi and through the panel for connecting to internet all networks are listed. There are no visible error messages, simply because there are no errors.
I doubt that it is incompatible hardware as Atheros cards are supported.
Quick info
- Bootable USB of Kali 64 bit 2017.1
- Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
-airodump and wifite circle through 1-10 channels, but finds nothing (despite there being many stations nearby)
rfkill list
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
iw phy (shortened)
Band 2:
Capabilities: 0x19ef
RX LDPC
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
RX HT20 SGI
RX HT40 SGI
TX STBC
RX STBC 1-stream
Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes
DSSS/CCK HT40
dmesg | tail
[ 55.521787] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
...
[ 64.629887] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0 wlan0: disabling HT as WMM/QoS is not supported by the AP
[ 64.629894] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0 wlan0: disabling VHT as WMM/QoS is not supported by the AP
...
[ 64.635942] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
dmesg says that HT is not supported by AP, however the hardware supports HT.
I doubt that it is incompatible hardware as Atheros cards are supported.
Quick info
- Bootable USB of Kali 64 bit 2017.1
- Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
-airodump and wifite circle through 1-10 channels, but finds nothing (despite there being many stations nearby)
rfkill list
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
iw phy (shortened)
Band 2:
Capabilities: 0x19ef
RX LDPC
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
RX HT20 SGI
RX HT40 SGI
TX STBC
RX STBC 1-stream
Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes
DSSS/CCK HT40
dmesg | tail
[ 55.521787] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
...
[ 64.629887] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0 wlan0: disabling HT as WMM/QoS is not supported by the AP
[ 64.629894] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0 wlan0: disabling VHT as WMM/QoS is not supported by the AP
...
[ 64.635942] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
dmesg says that HT is not supported by AP, however the hardware supports HT.