shinew Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Just playing around with it, here is what i noticed, a bug perhaps? after setting wlan0 to monitor mode, if I try to bring it up again using ifconfig, it's guaranteed to crash the system and reboot. ifconfig wlan0 down iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor ifconfig wlan0 up However, I don't have to bring it up to make it functional for airodump-ng, then again the wlan0 LED won't work if the wlan0 interface is not up, and I like the blinking light... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boob00 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Just playing around with it, here is what i noticed, a bug perhaps? after setting wlan0 to monitor mode, if I try to bring it up again using ifconfig, it's guaranteed to crash the system and reboot. ifconfig wlan0 down iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor ifconfig wlan0 up However, I don't have to bring it up to make it functional for airodump-ng, then again the wlan0 LED won't work if the wlan0 interface is not up, and I like the blinking light...Strange Strange, though i have a question: Why use wlan0 whitch is the AP radio? That could have something to do with it. Try using wlan1 instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbi3 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 run the wifi command Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinew Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 Strange, though i have a question: Why use wlan0 whitch is the AP radio? That could have something to do with it. Try using wlan1 instead. just because it's set to ap radio by default doesn't mean you need to use it as ap, obviously it's capable of more than that and runs in monitor mode and it can be run in conjunction with wlan1 as well :) not sure what I would use it for yet, just want to find out more of the hardware capability and limits. Perhaps can be used as a more effective wifi jammer by spreading the channel load between wlan0 & wlan1? just off top my head... run the wifi command I'm not sure what you meant, how is that going to help preventing reset while havinb wlan0 in monitor mode and functioning LED? When I tried it, wifi down/detect does not prevent it from resetting when bring up the wlan0. only thing seems to help is to leave wlan0 down under ifconfig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zz2Fac3zz Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Just use airmon-ng start wlan0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinew Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 Just use airmon-ng start wlan0 not quite, then wlan0 will get stuck on one channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zz2Fac3zz Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 not quite, then wlan0 will get stuck on one channel. wlan0 shouldn't get stuck on channel 1 you can use iwlist wlan1 channel to confirm. Also be sure you're running airodump-ng from mon0 not wlan0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinew Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 I assume you meant 'wlan0' for iwlist? it doesn't say it's stuck on any channel, but it obviously does because it only picks up whatever channel that's set for the ap in "/etc/config/wireless" and airodump-ng shows channel as '-1'. if I put wlan0 down using 'ifconfig wlan0' then it'll surf all channels, but then the blue LED doesn't work anymore. So yours doesn't do that? Anyway, I can use it as is, just wanted to point out a possible bug unless I'm missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zz2Fac3zz Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 If your trying to use airodump on a specific channel just use the -c option. Also I don't have a problem with airodump showing as channel -1 and my LED's work just fine. Maybe this could fix your LED problem...https://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/31046-support-control-your-leds/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinew Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 -c option doesn't work, that's why I said it's stuck... I'll check out the LED things later, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kllr123 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Just playing around with it, here is what i noticed, a bug perhaps? after setting wlan0 to monitor mode, if I try to bring it up again using ifconfig, it's guaranteed to crash the system and reboot. ifconfig wlan0 down iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor ifconfig wlan0 up However, I don't have to bring it up to make it functional for airodump-ng, then again the wlan0 LED won't work if the wlan0 interface is not up, and I like the blinking light... Not sure if you got it working but I had the same problem. The only way I could get it to work was the following: ifconfig wlan0 down airmon-ng start wlan0 airodump-ng mon0 for some reason if wlan0 is down it works perfectly fine. but as soon as I bring wlan0 up, system crashes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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