airmon-ng "cannot access '/sys/class/ieee80211/'
Posted: 2018-01-21 22:19
Let me prelude this with the fact that I am pretty new to Debian/Linux I have used it in the past. I'm trying to use wireshark/airmon/nmap for a project and I have the tp link usb wireless adapter. Even though I'm fairly new to linux I am very computer savvy. Is there something that is very elementary that I am overlooking? I just don't understand why Linux cannot see my adapter. I've verified the chipset as a Atheros AR9271. NOWHERE do I find evidence that this damn thing is seeing the device.
Ok, at this point I think the purpose of this system was to drive me absolutely insane. As I have stayed up to 7 in the morning trying to figure out WTF is going on with this thing. And honestly a forum is the LASTTTTT place I wanted to ask a question at. Because I didn't want to have to register...then wait for responses...and so on. But here I am in all my desperation. I have tried everything from every forum I have been able to find. I've installed update after update firmware over and over. I just think it's broken
Problem:
I type "#airmon-ng check kill" I get, "ls: cannot access '/sys/class/ieee80211/' No such file or directory"
Then it says "killing these processes:"
PID NAME
581 wpa_supplicant
Pretty much I can't get rid of that ls: cannot access issue.
#uname -r gets me:
4.14.0-kali3-amd64
#lsusb doesn't show my usb tp link wireless device just shows bus 001, bus 001, bus 002 again
I have gone to the devices tab in the VM virtualBox and added several USB devices with nothing on them so that the machine can use one of them to connect if needed. I think I got like 13 on there. Still nothing. The tp link shows up on my windows machine but I cannot seem to find ANY evidence that Linux is seeing it anywhere. I've tried iwconfig that gives me:
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eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
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I have absolutely no clue of what to do now.
Any help AT ALL is appreciated.
Ok, at this point I think the purpose of this system was to drive me absolutely insane. As I have stayed up to 7 in the morning trying to figure out WTF is going on with this thing. And honestly a forum is the LASTTTTT place I wanted to ask a question at. Because I didn't want to have to register...then wait for responses...and so on. But here I am in all my desperation. I have tried everything from every forum I have been able to find. I've installed update after update firmware over and over. I just think it's broken
Problem:
I type "#airmon-ng check kill" I get, "ls: cannot access '/sys/class/ieee80211/' No such file or directory"
Then it says "killing these processes:"
PID NAME
581 wpa_supplicant
Pretty much I can't get rid of that ls: cannot access issue.
#uname -r gets me:
4.14.0-kali3-amd64
#lsusb doesn't show my usb tp link wireless device just shows bus 001, bus 001, bus 002 again
I have gone to the devices tab in the VM virtualBox and added several USB devices with nothing on them so that the machine can use one of them to connect if needed. I think I got like 13 on there. Still nothing. The tp link shows up on my windows machine but I cannot seem to find ANY evidence that Linux is seeing it anywhere. I've tried iwconfig that gives me:
-------------------------------------------------------
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
------------------------------------------------------
I have absolutely no clue of what to do now.
Any help AT ALL is appreciated.