I bought an ASRock USB WiFi dongle from HAK5 recently. I'm using on my XPS13 running Ubuntu 17.04.
When I plug it in and do an ifconfig it returns as wlx002522508b5d
If I then try and pit it in monitor mode using
sudo airmon-ng start wlx002522508b5d
The device then vanishes from the ifconfig list and I get
phy0 wlan0 wl Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
phy6 wlx002522508b5d rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070
Interface 15mon is too long for linux so it will be renamed to the old style (wlan#) name.
(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled on [phy6]wlan1mon
(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy6]wlx002522508b5d)
I then try
sudo wash -i wlan1mon
it returns
wash v1.4 WiFi Protected Setup Scan Tool
Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner <cheffner@tacnetsol.com>
[X] ERROR: Failed to open 'wlan1mon' for capturing
I have tried substituting wlam1mon for [phy6]wlan1mon, [phy6], [phy6]wlx002522508b5d, wlx002522508b5d and they all return the Failed to open error.
Where an I going wrong please?
Thanks for any help