issues with airodump and ALFA Network AWUS036NHA

[ninetiesarethebest]

Hi,

I have Kali set-up on a Raspberry 3 but after multiple days of research I still can't find what's wrong

ifconfig returns

wlan0: flags=3<UP,BROADCAST>  mtu 1500        ether 08:3b:0c:01:ca:b8  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 208  bytes 40353 (39.4 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 208  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

airmon-ng start wlan0 returns

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
  367 NetworkManager
  463 wpa_supplicant
  477 dhclient


PHY	Interface	Driver		Chipset


phy0	wlan0		brcmfmac	Broadcom 43430


		(monitor mode enabled for [phy0]wlan0)

airodump-ng wlan0 returns

ARP linktype is set to 1 (Ethernet) - expected ARPHRD_IEEE80211,ARPHRD_IEEE80211_FULL or ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM instead.  Make
sure RFMON is enabled: run 'airmon-ng start wlan0 <#>'
Sysfs injection support was not found either.


Failed initializing wireless card(s): wlan0

I'm not sure if this is relevant or not but airmon-ng doesn't create a new name for the interface with monitoring mode as all I get is " (monitor mode enabled for [phy0]wlan0)" whereas I would expect something like wlan0mon

Any ideas or thoughts would me very much welcome.

Thanks

[Mister_X]

A few things,

1. the card you are talking about is a broadcom, and it is most likely built-in. AWUS036NHA uses ath9k_htc driver.
2. ALWAYS kill the network managers prior to putting the card in monitor mode, as processes will interfere with the card, changing channels and sometimes putting it back in managed mode.
3. Grab the latest nexmon image if you really need to use the built-in chip instead of the AWUS036NHA. If not, then plug the AWUS036NHA

[ninetiesarethebest]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for your help, I feel terribly stupid but what actually happened is an issue with my usb cable which wasn't correctly plugged into the card, everything works now.

Thanks