Cracking Wi-Fi usually requires multiple tools or suites. One of the best tool suites available is the aircrack-ng tool suite. This tool suite was designed for conducting wireless network assessments. The tool suite focuses on four different aspects of network security.
The first aspect is monitoring network traffic. Putting your wireless adapter into monitor mode will record all network traffic within range of the adapter's wireless radio. It will then write the data to a text file (pcap file) for other tools to further analyze. The tool used for monitoring is called airmon-ng. This tool is used to put the wireless interface controller into monitor mode. Monitor mode disables filtering at the physical layer of the OSI model. This allows anything the adapter's wireless radio can pick up to be captured. Usually wireless cards only see and receive network traffic intended for them. This...