Wash [x] ERROR: Failed to open 'mon0' for capturing

[x] ERROR: Failed to open 'mon0' for capturing

I am trying to learn how to do WPS attacks, you know to test network security. I have been following a tutorial on-line. I'm crazy new to all of this so I don't really know what I'm doing.

I have a ASUS K50IJ 4gb ram it has a Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 PCI-E rev1 in it. its using the driver ath9k which all the Linux forums say is the correct one for that chipset. oh and the OS is Kali 2.0

Quote:

root@Kali:~# airmon-ng
PHY Interface Driver Chipset

phy0 wlan0 ath9k Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

root@Kali::~# airmon-ng start wlan0
Found 5 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID Name
590 NetworkManager
685 wpa_supplicant
814 avahi-daemon
815 avahi-daemon
1548 dhclient

PHY Interface Driver Chipset

phy0 wlan0 ath9k Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy0]wlan0 on [phy0]wlan0mon)
(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy0]wlan0)

root@Kali:~# kill 590
root@Kali:~# kill 685
root@Kali:~# kill 814
root@Kali:~# kill 815
bash: kill: (815) - No such process
root@Kali:~# kill 1548
bash: kill: (1548) - No such process
root@Kali:~# wash

Wash v1.5.2 WiFi Protected Setup Scan Tool
Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner <[email protected]>
mod by t6_x <[email protected]> & DataHead & Soxrok2212

Required Arguments:
-i, --interface=<iface> Interface to capture packets on
-f, --file [FILE1 FILE2 FILE3 ...] Read packets from capture files

Optional Arguments:
-c, --channel=<num> Channel to listen on [auto]
-o, --out-file=<file> Write data to file
-n, --probes=<num> Maximum number of probes to send to each AP in scan mode [15]
-D, --daemonize Daemonize wash
-C, --ignore-fcs Ignore frame checksum errors
-5, --5ghz Use 5GHz 802.11 channels
-s, --scan Use scan mode
-u, --survey Use survey mode [default]
-P, --output-piped Allows Wash output to be piped. Example. wash x|y|z...
-g, --get-chipset Pipes output and runs reaver alongside to get chipset
-h, --help Show help

Example:
wash -i mon0

root@Kali:~# wash -i mon0

Wash v1.5.2 WiFi Protected Setup Scan Tool
Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner <[email protected]>
mod by t6_x <[email protected]> & DataHead & Soxrok2212

[X] ERROR: Failed to open 'mon0' for capturing
root@Kali:~#

I have read many posts that say to use the cmd "sudo" to get around that error

Quote:

root@Kali:~# sudo wash -i mon0

Wash v1.5.2 WiFi Protected Setup Scan Tool
Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner <[email protected]>
mod by t6_x <[email protected]> & DataHead & Soxrok2212

[X] ERROR: Failed to open 'mon0' for capturing

so yeah I'm not sure what to try next to get this working
(also I run "service networking start" and "service network-manager start" but my network connection never comes back so i have to restart the whole comp, is there a faster way to get but up?)

try this ( wash -i wlan0mon) ,
if you want to use wash -i mon0 again you have to compile aircrack-ng 1.2 rc2 with airmon-ng from aircrack-ng 1.2 rc1

You can also use:

airmon-ng check kill

instead of killing all of the "processes that could cause trouble" manually (it will kill all of them automatically). aG

They both beat me to it, new aircrack suite especially airmon-ng uses a new format making a lot of scripts needing updates (if you know a simple search and the commands easy to do before they update em)
aGravity has the right format for putting a card in mon mode now, and it's no longer like wlan0 mon0, it's wlan0mon now

and same shutdown airmon-ng stop wlan0mon
then to go back to normal
service network-manager start
should have you back browsing the net no prob

also ensure you have pciutils

apt-get update && apt-get install pciutils

Quote:

Originally Posted by deadlyhabit

also ensure you have pciutils

apt-get update && apt-get install pciutils

Hi deadlyhabit,

Sorry to be lazy, but can you mention the benefits of pciutils with regard to airmon-ng/monitor mode?

On another note I'm surprised more people don't try Wicd as a network manager as it doesn't conflict with airmon-ng. I suppose because it isn't built into Kali 2.0's interface like 'Network-Manger' is...

Cheers, aG

Quote:

Originally Posted by aGravity

Hi deadlyhabit,

Sorry to be lazy, but can you mention the benefits of pciutils with regard to airmon-ng/monitor mode?

On another note I'm surprised more people don't try Wicd as a network manager as it doesn't conflict with airmon-ng. I suppose because it isn't built into Kali 2.0's interface like 'Network-Manger' is...

Cheers, aG

It was something I found necessary to install for the latest nethunter version, so my thoughts are it may or may not be needed for kali as well. Couldn't hurt to give it a shot.