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jurobystricky / Netgear-A6210

AC1200 High Gain WiFi USB Adapter Linux kernel driver
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monitor mode support #44

Open bw100 opened 7 years ago

bw100 commented 7 years ago

I have built and installed the driver onto fedora 20 ( 3.19.8-100.fc20.x86_64) and ferdora 24 (4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64) machines. I did not change any make or config files.

I can not successfully capture packets using wireshark after setting the wlan interface into monitor mode.

I appear to succesfully use iwconfig to set mode and channel iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor iwconfig wlan0 channel 1

iwconfig out gives

wlan0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Nickname:"mt7612u_sta" Mode:Monitor Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:0 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

However , "iw dev" gives me

phy#1 Interface wlan0 ifindex 6 wdev 0x100000001 addr b0:7f:b9:4d:d5:27 type managed

i.e the hardware device is still in "managed" mode

when I try to use "iw" I either get "device or resource busy (-16) or

e.g when trying to add an interface of type monitor iw phy phy1 interface add mon0 type monitor

i get command not supported errors (-95)

looking at output from "iw phy phy1 info"

    Supported interface modes:
             * IBSS
             * managed
             * AP

and

software interface modes (can always be added): is empty

i.e no "monitor" mode support comparing to an interface I can successfully sniff with Supported interface modes:

So, do I need to modify some config somewhere to enable monitor mode or am i just out of luck?

mzlarsson commented 6 years ago

Bump. Anyone who have had any luck with this issue? I am experiencing the same behaviour. Running on Raspberry Pi 3B+, Raspbian stretch with the 4.14-fix by genodeftest.

vladdoster commented 5 years ago

Any update on this?

mzlarsson commented 5 years ago

I never got it to work. After giving up I instead went for a Panda PAU06 USB wireless card which worked flawlessly out-of-the-box with my setup (Raspbian installation) and seems to be tested with most major linux-based OSes. If you get permanently stuck like me and plan on changing USB wireless card I would highly recommend it. I'm leaving the link here for convenience: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00JDVRCI0/ .

vladdoster commented 5 years ago

@ITNano Ah you read my mind. I ended up going with the Panda Wireless PAU09 N600. Thank you!