It gives information about the system as well as details about the wireless airmon-ng -verbose You can set the channel number by adding it to the end: airmon-ng start wifi0 9 is running then stop them first prior to all the commands above: Other drivers do not show the MAC address of the card. The MAC address of the card is only shown when using the madwifi-ng driver. The access point shows the MAC address of the card. Also make sure the essid, nickname and encryption have not been set. Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm Mode:Monitor Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:88:AC:82īit Rate=2 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 If you want to use ath0 (which is already used):Īth0 Atheros madwifi-ng VAP (parent: wifi0) (VAP destroyed)Īth0 Atheros madwifi-ng VAP (parent: wifi0) (monitor mode enabled) Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associatedīit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 It likely looks similar the following output. After starting your computer, enter “iwconfig” to show you the current status of the wireless interfaces. This describes how to put your interface into monitor mode.
