Can't monitor wlan0 via airmon-ng on Kali within VirtualBox

Hello,

I've read a few threads in here but haven't found a solution. I installed Kali-Linux 2016.2 within VirtualBox 5 on Kubuntu 16.10. I have a wifi-usb-stick that works flawlessly with Kubuntu and I also managed to get it to work from within VirtualBox. However, it seems I can't enable monitored mode with airmon-ng.

ifconfig shows this for the wifi-stick:

Code:

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.178.34 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255 inet6 fe80::4eee:aa3c:2a92:d605 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 24:05:0f:95:45:15 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 694 bytes 86020 (84.0 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 7 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 130 bytes 17753 (17.3 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

airmon-ng shows me this:

Code:

PHY Interface Driver Chipset null wlan0 r8712u Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter

This is what I did (according to a tutorial):

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 down

(no output)

Code:

airmon-ng start wlan 0

giving me this output:

Code:

Found 3 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 run 'airmon-ng check kill' PID Name 2335 NetworkManager 2347 wpa_supplicant 2455 dhclient PHY Interface Driver Chipset null wlan0 r8712u Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter

I also used "airmon-ng check kill", but this didn't help anything, it just disabled the network-connection completely. So does anybody have any hints on what else I could try? Tia.

Try this:

Code:

airmon-ng airmon-ng check airmon-ng check kill airmon-ng start wlan0

Quote:

Originally Posted by _defalt

Try this:

Code:

airmon-ng airmon-ng check airmon-ng check kill airmon-ng start wlan0

I tried your suggestions, but it didn't work. Here's what I got from using the commands:

Code:

root@kali:~# airmon-ng PHY Interface Driver Chipset null wlan0 r8712u Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter root@kali:~# airmon-ng check Found 3 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 run 'airmon-ng check kill' PID Name 441 NetworkManager 685 wpa_supplicant 1143 dhclient root@kali:~# airmon-ng check kill Killing these processes: PID Name 685 wpa_supplicant root@kali:~# airmon-ng start wlan0 PHY Interface Driver Chipset null wlan0 r8712u Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter

To make sure that I didn't miss something I checked the interfaces:

Code:

root@kali:~# ifconfig eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 08:00:27:27:06:d4 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback) RX packets 14962 bytes 897698 (876.6 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 14962 bytes 897698 (876.6 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 root@kali:~# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 unassociated Nickname:"rtl_wifi" Mode:Managed 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 eth0 no wireless extensions.