Troubleshooting Wireless Drivers
Troubleshooting wireless driver issues inwards Kali Linux tin sack live on a frustrating sense if y'all don’t know what to await for. This article is meant to live on used every bit a full general guideline to ameliorate aid y'all abide by the data y'all need to solve your wireless issues. The most thorough rootage for wireless driver data is the aircrack-ng documentation.
90% of wireless issues reported to us are due to people non reading the Aircrack-ng documentation. You need to run
airmon-ngbanking concern gibe kill earlier putting your carte du jour inwards monitor mode.
Carefully read ANY mistake message every bit they volition VERY OFTEN nation y'all what’s incorrect too how to produce it. If not, too hence purpose your Google-Fu.
1. No Interface
- Simple question: Is it a wireless card? (We’ve seen that several times)
- Is the device plugged in?
- Does it exhibit upward on lsusb or lspci (with the exception of phones)? You mightiness desire to update
pci idstoousb ids - Does
dmesgincorporate whatever data close the driver loading and/or failing - Is Kali a VM? Then, unless your carte du jour is USB, it volition non live on usable (VMWare/VirtualBox/QEMU volition virtualize EVERY PCI device). Is it attached to the VM?
- If at that spot is zilch inwards
dmesgtoo it’s non inwards a VM, too hence y'all mightiness desire to endeavor the latestcompat-wireless(and sometimes, you’ll need firmware) -> banking concern gibe on Linux-Wireless drivers
2. Interface But Can’t Do Anything
- Read mistake messages
- If at that spot are no mistake messages, too hence run
dmesg | tailtoo it volition most probable nation y'all what’s wrong - Firmware mightiness live on missing
- Check
rfkilltoo whatever hardware switches too BIOS options
3. No Monitor Mode
- STA drivers (Ralink, Broadcom) too every other manufacturer’s provided driver doesn’t back upward monitor mode
ndiswrapperdoesn’t back upward monitor trend AND NEVER WILL.- Airodump-ng/Wireshark don’t exhibit whatever packets: banking concern gibe
rfkilltoo whatever hardware switches too BIOS options
4. Injection
- Test amongst
aireplay-ng -9(Make certain the carte du jour is inwards monitor trend amongstairmon-ng) airmon-ngdoesn’t display chipset information: It’s non a big effect every bit it only didn’t expire that data from the carte du jour too doesn’t alter the abilities of your card- No injection but monitor mode: Check
rfkilltoo whatever hardware switches too BIOS options - Network managers sometimes interfere amongst Aircrack tools. run
airmon-ngbanking concern gibe kill to kill these processes.
Additional Links
- Will my carte du jour function amongst Aircrack-ng?
- Compat-wireless
- Best supported WiFi cards inwards Kali Linux
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