I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with a Realtek RTL8187SE Driver, RTL8180/RTL8185 chipset with aircrack-ng 1.1 and every time i enter "airmon-ng start wlan0". It says "monitor mode enabled" instead of "monitor mode enabled on mon0". I checked ifconfig to see if it made another interface, but all I got was "wlan0", "lo", and "eth0". How can I fix this?
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You don't mention your chipset, driver, kernel and airmon-ng version, which would have made it easier to help you.
Not all drivers create mon0 for monitor mode, some enable it on the original interface (wlan0 in your case). Run airmon-ng check
to check the status.
To confirm that your card is in monitor mode, run the command iwconfig
. You can then confirm the mode is “monitor” and the interface name.
You could also run airmon-ng check kill
, which will cause all processes that use the interface to exit.
For the mac80211 drivers, the monitor mode interface is typically “mon0”. For ieee80211 madwifi-ng drivers, it is typically “ath0”. For other drivers, the interface name may vary.
To learn more about the difference of the drivers, read here