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InfamousSYN / rogue

An extensible toolkit providing penetration testers an easy-to-use platform to deploy Access Points during penetration testing and red team engagements.
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wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED #24

Closed jepunband closed 3 years ago

jepunband commented 5 years ago

Hi, i'm using a supported wireless card that supports Monitor and AP mode , don't have issues with this card using other wireless tools that requires AP mode. But i get error with this tool :

Configuration file: /home/gill/rogue/tmp/hostapd-wpe.conf ACS: Automatic channel selection started, this may take a bit wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->ACS wlan1: ACS-STARTED Configuration file: /home/gill/rogue/tmp/hostapd-wpe.conf wlan1: INTERFACE-DISABLED nl80211: Could not configure driver mode nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan1 disabled_11b_rates=0 nl80211 driver initialization failed. wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED wlan1: AP-DISABLED wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan1 wasn't started ACS: Failed to request initial scan ACS: Failed to request scan Interface initialization failed wlan1: interface state ACS->DISABLED wlan1: AP-DISABLED ACS: Failed to start wlan1: AP-DISABLED hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan1 wasn't started nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan1 disabled_11b_rates=0 wlan1: interface state DISABLED->DISABLED wlan1: interface state DISABLED->DISABLED wlan1: AP-DISABLED wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan1 wasn't started

InfamousSYN commented 3 years ago

With hostapd attempting to do ACS and without seeing the command configuration being used, the two likely causes are:

  1. the --channel flag wasn't set
  2. or it was but the channel selected isn't supported on the hardware a channel was selected which isn't supported within your region of the world

--country flag allows you to manipulate the regulatory domain applied the hardware at runtime. The default domain configured on hardware is typically 00 which is world domain and is the most restrictive. Using --country BO will change the wireless regulatory domain to Bolivia which is one of the most least restrictive regulatory domains, as such hardware is typically allowed transmit on most WIFI channels.