Time for action – creating a monitor mode interface
Let's now set our wireless adapter to 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 wlan0 up
command to bring the card up (wherewlan0
is your adapter). Verify whether the card is up by runningifconfig wlan0
. You should see the wordUP
in the first 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 run theairmon-ng
command to verify whether it detects the available cards. You should see thewlan0
orwlan1
interface listed in the output: - Now enter the
airmon-ng start wlan0
command to create a monitor mode interface corresponding to thewlan0
device. This new monitor mode interface will be namedwlan0mon
. (You can verify...