Can't record handshake with Alfa AWUS051NH v2
I'm running Kali off a usb stick, not that I imagine that matters for this purpose.
I recently bought an Alfa AWUS051NH v2 to play around with WPA2/WPS penetration testing, only on my own network. The router I'm attacking is in the room with me about 5 feet from the adapter, and I'm using my phone as the client to be kicked for recording the handshake -- it's also only a few feet from the adapter and router, so signal strength is excellent (~86db reported in the scan list in wifite). WPS isn't enabled so I manually skip WPS related attacks in wifite. The adapter goes in to monitor mode without issue, so far as I can tell. The router is an old Linksys WRT54G running OpenWRT I set up specifically to play around with this.
Deauth seems to work -- I see the phone drop connection and reconnect after the script reports deauth sent -- but it never seems to get a handshake. It'll just sit there, going through the deauth / listen cycle until the timer runs down and it reports failure.
I realize this particular adapter isn't like the "darling" of the pen testing community, that others are preferred, but I wanted something that could handle 5Ghz since I'll be using it with my laptop to actually connect to things, not just play around with pen testing, so the older Alfas weren't an option. Of the 5Ghz capable adapters most people seemed to agree this was the best.
I'm going to do my own research here, of course, but since I'm on a cell connection with very little data available to me I thought it best to ask here first and hopefully save a lot of researching. Is it a simple fix? Did I get a defective adapter? It seems to connect to networks fine in normal mode, throughput is solid, etc.
Any help greatly appreciated. I just started with this stuff, looked it up on a whim a few days ago and ended up staying up until 5 am just reading and learning. I know the general process with wash/reaver/etc not just running the wifite script, I'm just using wifite for ease, since as I understand it it's calling all the same commands anyway.
No handshake capture in monitormode? (AWUS051NH V2 on a raspberry pi 3 with kali)
I have also a problem capturing handshakes with AWUS051NH V2 on a raspberry pi 3 with kali.
I get it in the monitor mode but no handshake. Also Aircrack-ng says there is no handshake in de cap file.
any tips? Processes i already killed before entering monitor mode?
Anyone else got it to work on above configuration?
Code:
root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:3572 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT3572 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@kali:~# iwconfig
wlan0mon IEEE 802.11abgn Mode:Monitor Frequency:2.457 GHz Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on