Time for action – creating a monitor mode interface
Let's now set our wireless adapter into monitor mode.
Follow these instructions to get started:
Boot Kali with your adapter connected. Once you are within the console, enter
iwconfig
to confirm that your card has been detected and the driver has been loaded properly.Use the
ifconfig wlan1 up
command to bring the card up (wherewlan1
is your adapter). Verify whether the card is up by runningifconfig wlan1
. You should see the wordUP
in the second line of the output as shown in the following screenshot:To put our card into monitor mode, we will use the
airmon-ng
utility that is available by default on Kali. First runairmon-ng
command to verify whether it detects the available cards. You should see thewlan0
interface listed in the output:Now enter
airmon-ng start wlan1
command to create a monitor mode interface corresponding to thewlan0
device. This new monitor mode interface will be namedmon0
. (You can verify if it has been created by...