jthunder Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 So after installing the Armbian distro with hope that I can get monitor mode enabled on the built-in wireless card, it doesn't seem to be working. Both the aircrack-ng software or iw cannot seem to put the driver into monitor mode even though it shows as being a supported mode: mlinton@tinkerboard:~$ iw phy0 info Wiphy phy0 max # scan SSIDs: 9 max scan IEs length: 2304 bytes Retry short limit: 7 Retry long limit: 4 Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m) Supported Ciphers: * WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1) * WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5) * TKIP (00-0f-ac:2) * CCMP (00-0f-ac:4) * CMAC (00-0f-ac:6) Available Antennas: TX 0 RX 0 Supported interface modes: * IBSS * managed * AP * monitor Anyone had luck putting the driver into monitor mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Monitor mode is considered as extended function and usually, on those low-cost chip/driver, found on those boards, does not work out of the box. Perhaps some patching is needed but this is out of our mission zone - when wireless works (decently) as a station and AP mode, our job is done. In some cases, even getting here requires an insane amount of time. We are Linux for development boards, not a WiFi for Linux development boards project ... but this field is quite well supported in Armbian. We tend to include as much 3rd party USB/mPCI WiFi drivers+firmware out of the box. If you want to use monitor mode, get 8811/8812/8814 based USB adaptor. Monitor mode works out of the box on all modern kernel 4.x+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jthunder Posted November 27, 2017 Author Share Posted November 27, 2017 Hey Igor, I totally get it - just thought that someone might have/heard of a better driver for the r8723bs chip. I saw that there were several projects geared at a proper driver for the chip like https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs and there is a great deal of hackability for this board if I can get the wifi/BT chip to play nice with some of the security software I use. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 7 hours ago, jthunder said: I saw that there were several projects geared at a proper driver for the chip like https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs That is the driver that made it into mainline (4.12+). The legacy kernel is a different driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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