Broadcom Monitor Mode Driver
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I have a broadcom BCM43142 wireless card, and wish to enable monitor mode. I'm using the broadcom-stawl driver, manually upgraded to the latest version. This card is not supported by the b43 driver.
Monitor mode is not supported on the wlan0 interface, but according to the documentation, this should enable a prism0 interface with monitoring capabilities:
Both involve putting the wireless LAN card into 'monitor mode', allowing you to view and record all packets sent by other WiFi devices nearby. This includes data packets send. The Linux wireless drivers page provides a quick summary of monitor mode support in different drivers. To find out which devices. Yeah, that card doesn't support monitor mode. Don't waste your time trying to fix it. The Linux drivers for that card is completely useless. Try getting some external WiFi adapters if.
The moment I write 1 to that file, however, my system freezes completely.
How can I enable monitor mode, switch to another driver, or at least debug the freezing problem?
2 Answers
As mentioned, this is due to a bug in the driver.The new Broadcom source has already patched this so there's no need to manually patch it.
For A X64 System try
For A x32 System try
Then follow the instructions from the STA readme to install it
This is a bug in the driver. You have to patch the driver and compile it yourself.See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/387780/cant-change-brcm-monitor0-in-proc
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I have been trying to turn on monitor mode with no success.
this is the error i get:
Does this mean my wireless card simply does not support monitor mode? If so what are my options here?
I read somewhere that the wl driver doesn't support monitor mode so i did:
but I had no success. Whenever i purge the bcmwl-kernel-source, my internet connection simply stops working, even if i have b43 installed.
Ok so after being shown that there my driver does not support monitor mode and b43 is not supported, I figured out a solution for this problem. Just for reference:
Although that link is for Kali Linux, it works fine for Ubuntu. When you run the following command:
It will let you use prism0 with air0dump.
Hope this will help :)
Broadcom Monitor Mode Driver
1 Answer
The answer is: This adapter doesn't support monitor mode on Linux.
Broadcom proprietary drivers never supported this mode, and there is no open source driver for this device yet.
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