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...