Monitor Mode is not available in many USB Cards, however as indicated in my previous post, this can be resolved by purchasing three main components:
- WIFI Antenna
- AX210 WIFI6E/Bluetooth Name Card with E.Key Port
- PCIe adapter with E.key Port for Raspberry Pi 5
- Power supply
- A monitor that can handle the interference
As shown in this setup, the SD Card I used was a 16GB card, but I had issues with different LG Monitors with HDMI, as well as DELL. However, an ACER Monitor worked ok .
The software should be Ubuntu 24.04 created using the Raspberry Imager, the PCI card will start without any hiccups., and recognized the PCI board with the Intel AX210 chipset without any issues.
Here is there setup:
The Software
I suggest you installl the SSU script from INTEL AX210 to get the Monitor Mode ON to work:
wget https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18895/intel-system-support-utility-for-the-linux-operating-system.html#:~:text=ssu_3.0.0.2_tar.-,gz,-Linux*
wget https://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.7.tar.gz
~$ sudo lshw -C network,
[sudo] password for …..your_user_:
-network description: Wireless interface product: Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) AX210/AX1675 2×2 [Typhoon Peak]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlp1s0mon
version: 1a
serial: 38:bd:8b:7d:ef:h1:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list logical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=6.11.0-1004-raspi firmware=89.202a2f7b.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-89.uc latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
Oservet hat the Intel AX210 board is recognized as part of the PCIe devices.
Now, you can proceed to install the essentials, automate and other packages that are needed for Aircrack to work.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev libssl-dev ethtool shtool rfkill zlib1g-dev libpcap-dev libsqlite3-dev libpcre3-dev libhwloc-dev libcmocka-dev hostapd wpasupplicant tcpdump screen iw usbutils
cd aircrack-ng-1.7/
autoreconf -i
./configure
make
make install
sudo make install
Also install, shark, wireshark, for additional monitoring tools. You an start the monitoring tool on your WLAN interface:
aircrack-ng
aircrack-ng wlp1s0
aircrack-ng start wlp1s0
a New Interface will be created called wlp1s0mon, and that’s the one you will use for monitoring.
Simply tune to:
iw dev wlpsls0mon set channel N or :
iw dev wlpsls0mon set channel N 80MHz
for example to tune the radio of your monitor to any of the channels and operate in any of the frequencies.
- 2.4GHz channels – Channels 1, 3, 6… for example
- 5GHz channels – Channels 36,149, etc
From another laptop you may want to check that all Access Points and devices around you, specially MAC Addresses.
Another option is to use “tshark” and load:
tshark -i wlp1s0mon -w Arris_data.pcap
The unit may need an external antenna to increase gain and capture more packets with the Intel AX210 chipset board.