First step to begin hacking the WEP networks is to put your wireless network card into monitor mode. For this we will use ifconfig and iwconfig. As I wrote in last post, these instructions may not work for your card. I will explain how to set it up with atheros chipset cards in a separate post. This is for Broadcoms or RT2500 and many other cards.
Step 1: Open a Konsole shell by clicking on the little black monitor icon on the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
Now we want to see what the cards installed on our computer are known as.
Step 2: At the prompt type iwconfig
You will see something like this:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Off/any Nickname: "Broadcom 4311"
Mode: Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz...
And some more lines.....
Disregard the 'lo' card. Your card is the one or more other cards listed. In my case the card is known as 'eth0'. As we can also see in the second line, the card is currently in managed mode, we must get it into monitor mode.
We also need our card to be "UP". To check the up and down status, we
Type : ifconfig
The results should show your card and the second line of the cards information should start with 'UP'. If your card is not shown or if it is not showing it with the word 'UP', then we must put it up. If you're not sure, you can also put it up and there will be no harm done. Here's how we do it.
Type : ifconfig eth0 up (replacing 'eth0' with your card).
That's it. Easy , wasn't it?
Now type ifconfig again and you should see your card and marked as up. Here's a screenshot of the steps so far:
Step: 3
Type : iwconfig eth0 mode monitor
In case you couldn't tell, this places the card into monitor mode. Doing iwconfig again should now show mode as monitor, as shown in this screenshot:
If you followed all these simple steps, you should be ready to start with airodump. If you have an atheros based card, stand by...
14 comments:
First and foremost: This site is awesome! THANK YOU!
I'm also a total noob at Linux and this bolg is a Godsend.
Now for a question: I tried putting my internal wireless card into moitor mode, but it keeps closing the connection and then nothing!?
Also how would I get Linux to detect a USB wireless card?
I don't get what you mean by 'closing the connection'.
To get your network card name (e.g. rausb0) type iwconfig at a Konsole prompt.
OK I got it thanks! The card in my laptop wasn't letting me do anything. I had an old Linksys WPC11 V4 lying around and that worded great!
Thanks again for a wonderful tut.
hey great site but i assume this is only for linux users. Can you create one for windows users?
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06)
SET failed on device eth0 ; Operation not permitted.
what can i do?
Great blog i must say, i do have a bit of a problem though, my lan card shows up as wlan0 and everytime i try to put it into monitor mode it says device is busy i was wondering if there is anyway around that...
great blog, i was wondering if anyone can help... my wireless card shows up as wlan0 and everytime i put it into monitor mode it says device is busy... any help?
wonderful blog, but im having a problem, everytime i try to put my NIC to monitor mode it says device is busy, any advice
to put 1395 into monitor Down the card first:
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up
Then iwconfig to confirm its mode...
Thanks alot! How do i put a card back into managed mode, after successfully putting it into monitor mode?
every time i try and iwconfig eth0 mode monitor it sais
ifconfig wlan0 mode monitor
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
I can't help but notice that alot of you guys are asking questions that could easily be solved by using the command:
man iwconfig
or
man ifconfig
other useful commands are
whatis iwconfig
whereis iwconfig
If wep cracking is your primary interest you should also check out apps like aircrack-ng and kismet, both of witch are great tools. The aircrack suite also comes with a command "airmon-ng" which will tell you the driver that your card is using (e.g. oronico, or the infamous madwifi drivers) and if used like this:
airmon-ng start wlan0 <(btw that is a zer0 not an o I noticed that several comments were using the o and not the 0 which could have been detrimental to your success)
For you windows users, you should check out Cane and Able and Network Stumbler GREAT TOOLS
Once you've gained access to the network move on to apps like DSNIFF, NMAP, and HPing2
it is so benefit but when displaying command iwconfig it shows these :
iwconfig eth1 mode monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode"(8B06):
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
so how can i solve this error ?
thankyou guys :)
Very informative post. Keep up the good work. I would really look forward to your other posts
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