Discovering Wireless Networks and Packet Capturing Raw 802.11 Frames in Kali

Connect a supported wireless access point (WAP) to your computer.
In a Kali terminal window,

1. Check the wireless interfaces available.

   iwconfig

   Notice that wlan0 is in managed mode, and it is not associated with any access points.

2. See more details.

   ifconfig wlan0

   

3. Put the interface into monitor mode.

   airmon-ng start wlan0

4. Verify that wlan0 is now in monitor mode.

   iwconfig

   

5. Check the wireless access points in the vicinity.

   airodump-ng wlan0mon

   

   Press Ctrl + C to stop the process.

6. Choose a channel and device to capture packets from.
7. Capture raw 802.11 frames from the chosen particular channel and device using airodump-ng. This tools is particularly suitable for collecting WEP initialization vectors so that they can be used for cracking with aircrack-ng. Specify the channel number with the -c parameter, the file name with the -w parameter, the device with the -d parameter, and the interface name at the end of the command, e.g.,

   airodump-ng -c11 -w capture -d E8:65:…:FA:F3 wlan0mon

   

8. Open your capture file in Wireshark.

   wireshark capture-01.cap