wlan1 not switching to wlan1mon when in monitor mode

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2020-09-18
darkshadowman8

wlan1 not switching to wlan1mon when in monitor mode

Hello..
I have a problem when puting my wireless card to monitor mode.
laptop has pci wlan0 which is with firmware iwlwifi.
When airmon-ng start wlan0 card is switching to wlan0mon (mac80211 station mode vif enabled on [phy0]wlan0)

and everything is fine.
When using usb device alfa alfa awus036h with rtl8187 chipset
and airmon-ng start wlan1 device just staying wlan1 monitor mode and missing (mac80211 station mode vif enabled on [phy1]wlan1) and iwconfig
shows that is in monitor mode.
This makes problems with reaver etc.
Before updating everything was working fine
Any help would be appreciated.
2020-11-24
scorpius

I have the same problem. It was working with the older kernel up to 5.7, so it might not be just kali but also other distros of linux.
2020-11-25
pablodunn56

Nice keep it up....
2020-11-25
pablodunn56

Quote:

Originally Posted by scorpius

I have the same problem. It was working with the older kernel up to 5.7, so it might not be just kali but also other distros of linux.

haaahaaaaa,,,,,,,,,
2020-11-26
TheSeer

Try adding the networking to network manager under /etc/NetworkManger or simpliy just try restart your network by : service network-manager restart
if all else fails:
Try
airmon-ng stop wlan0mon
then restart network manager
service network-manager restart
<-This seems to be the most common fix!^
or
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
ifconfig wlan0 up
or
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up
2020-11-28
mmusket33

Musket Teams noted this a while back. The device is placed in monitor mode it just uses the same wlan1 designation. Put the device in monitor mode and then type airmon-ng start wlan1 a second time or take the device out of monitor mode and see the response from airmon-ng.

MTeam have been running reaver thru a terminal window with this version with no problems. It you are running a script the script will have to be patched to take both wlan1mon and wlan1 designations. Out latest handshakeharvest has this patch and we will get around to patching other scripts soon .

You could also use iw and manually put the device in monitor mode. Or get an older version of airmon-ng.sh place it in root and run the older version from root ./airmon-ng.sh.

You could post a question in the aircrack-ng forums if you want more info.

Go here and read thru the comments

https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...rmon-ng-output

MTeams
2021-01-02
nu11secur1ty

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkshadowman8

Hello..
I have a problem when puting my wireless card to monitor mode.
laptop has pci wlan0 which is with firmware iwlwifi.
When airmon-ng start wlan0 card is switching to wlan0mon (mac80211 station mode vif enabled on [phy0]wlan0)

and everything is fine.
When using usb device alfa alfa awus036h with rtl8187 chipset
and airmon-ng start wlan1 device just staying wlan1 monitor mode and missing (mac80211 station mode vif enabled on [phy1]wlan1) and iwconfig
shows that is in monitor mode.
This makes problems with reaver etc.
Before updating everything was working fine
Any help would be appreciated.

https://github.com/nu11secur1ty/w1f1.../master/airmon ;)