AR9170 wifi monitoring detects almost no data packets
hey,
when using airodump-ng to monitor packets I almost see no packet transfer with my usb cards in monitor mode.
I have 2 internal wifi and 2 external atheros usb wifi cards to test.
airodump -c 13 wlanX
Card |
Beacons |
#Data |
internal Broadcom |
1000 |
7159 (ok) |
internal Intel Wireless-N |
1000 |
7443 (ok) |
USB TP-Link TL-WN821N V1 (AR9170) |
1510 |
7 (bad) |
USB TP-Link TL-WN821N V2 (AR9170) |
1574 |
8 (bad) |
However airodump detects lost packets between AP and Client of the AR9170 cards (the amount isn't equal to the broadcom's detected loss amount).
What I've tested so far:
- Tested in: Kali 1.1 (problem), Kali 2.0 (problem), Backtrack 5 R3 (everything works as it should)
- wps handshake detecting: Kali - only detected by broadcom, Backtrack - all 3 cards detect handshake
- Carl9170 drivers/firmware: Kali - 1.9.7/1.9.6, Backtrack - 1.9.4/1.9.4
- Aircrack versions: Kali - 1.2, Backtrack - 1.1
- Copied Aircrack from Backtrack to Kali: Same problem
- Copied Carl9170 firmware (not the driver) from Backtrack to Kali: Same problem
- Captured .cap file: almost empty with AR9170 cards
- Occurs on each channel or AP
- dmesg sometimes (less than once every 100 seconds) outputs for AR9170: invalid plcp cck rate (0). or frame tail is clipped.
- no distance problems (1m away, 4m away, 10m away)
- tested on two notebooks
I'm not sure if this is a aircrack problem... any help would be good. Perhaps someone had the same problems.