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General Category => Newbies => Topic started by: Dustpipe on September 05, 2021, 07:51:32 pm

Title: airodump-ng only showing networks sometimes.
Post by: Dustpipe on September 05, 2021, 07:51:32 pm

Hello, I am relatively new to using aircrack and have had minimal success in the past. I recently decided to start using it on my Ubuntu 20.04. The issue is sometimes it works no problem at all, other times I picking up no traffic. I am using a PAU 06 Panda wireless adaptor, the chipset is RT5372. I used this exact device on my Kali linux distro, but remember having to downgrade the kernel. Regardless, my question is why is it working sometimes, and sometimes its not?

Here is the dmesg information.
[ 2435.530182] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 2446.828496] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 2447.260167] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=5372, bcdDevice= 1.01
[ 2447.260173] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2447.260175] usb 1-1: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
[ 2447.260177] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Ralink
[ 2447.644061] usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 2448.052350] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 5392, rev 0223 detected
[ 2448.897394] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 5372 detected
[ 2448.904409] ieee80211 phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 2448.924830] rt2800usb 1-1:1.0 wlx9cefd5fb0f10: renamed from wlan0
[ 2510.501433] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
[ 2510.501465] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.36
[ 2515.712165] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x1004 with error -110
[ 2515.828246] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x7010 with error -110

Question is why is it so unstable? any suggestions, questions or ideas?

Thank you

Title: Re: airodump-ng only showing networks sometimes.
Post by: misterx on September 06, 2021, 12:42:23 am

Is this a virtual machine? If yes, which hypervisor?

On what version of kali does the problem appear? As in what kernel, and what CPU architecture?

Title: Re: airodump-ng only showing networks sometimes.
Post by: Dustpipe on September 06, 2021, 01:27:50 am

Sorry for the lack of details.
Linux ryan-virtual-machine 5.11.0-27-generic #29~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 11 15:58:17 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Title: Re: airodump-ng only showing networks sometimes.
Post by: Dustpipe on September 06, 2021, 04:09:35 am

After hours of playing around, I figured out the issue. I plugged the adaptor into one of the usb ports at the front of the pc. After moving it directly to the motherboard, it solved my issues.

Title: Re: airodump-ng only showing networks sometimes.
Post by: misterx on September 06, 2021, 11:36:10 pm

Are the front USB ports by any chance USB2 whereas the rear ones were USB3?