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t00r
2020-06-08, 00:38
Hello,

Firstly I'd like to give a brief background on what is going on:

- VMware virtual machine (USB 2.0)
- KDE Plasma # Nice look



toor@kali:~$ uname -r
5.6.0-kali2-amd64



iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 unassociated ESSID:"" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


Secondly cloned the rtl8188eus drivers for TL-WN722N from https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8188eus (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=-xEYPg0QcKShEbASspP1QNxLxdJ8MTU5MTY2MjcyMkAxNTkxNTc 2MzIy&stzid=UgwCVVYHPIrnadMJuLh4AaABAg&event=comments&q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Faircrack-ng%2Frtl8188eus).

Then, I crossed my fingers as I tried those two methods to enable monitor mode:

1#



sudo airmon-ng check kill
sudo -i
echo "blacklist r8188eu.ko" > "/etc/modprobe.d/realtek.conf"
exit
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8188eu
sudo ip link set wlan0 down
sudo iw dev wlan0 set type monitor



# ERROR MESSAGE:
command failed: No such device (-19)

2#



sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
sudo iwconfig wlan0 set mode monitor
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
su iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor




#ERROR MESSAGE:
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not permitted.


I cannot enable monitor mode, and cannot find any reference to what those error messages mean.

Could anybody help? Thx