airmon-ng not working in terminal (command not found) [closed]

Question

I successfully installed aircrack-ng using macports (i know it worked because when i enter aircrack-ng in terminal it shows the version and options) on my macbook pro. However when I use the airmon-ng command i get "command not found."

Akvavit

Show the output of it working and not working... it's unclear what you are asking. – Ron

mynames-MacBook-Pro:~ username$ airmon-ng -bash: airmon-ng: command not found – Akvavit

When I enter "airmon-ng" in the command line I get "command not found." Thats all. Based on the tutorial I am following I should be getting a list of wireless interfaces. github.com/brannondorsey/wifi-cracking – Akvavit

Re: "when i enter aircrack-ng in terminal it shows the version and options", so how is it not working? – Ron

airCRACK-ng and airMON-ng are two different commands. aircrack works (shows that its installed) while airmon does not – Akvavit

I have since found this post on the aircrack forums. (forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php/topic,1460.0.html) it says the airmon command isn't in the mac os version. however i have so far been unable to find this information in the documentation so I am not sure how I (or other users) are supposed to know this. – Akvavit

Ah, I didn't catch that they were two different commands. I think you are correct that airmon-ng isn't on the macOS version — only on the linux version (I just downloaded and compiled the from source and it's only reference shows up in linux.c. aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=install_aircrack – Ron

Answer 1

As far as I know, you can't use airmon-ng on MacOs, they're for Linux only. The best way I can suggest for you is using sudo airport -s to determine which SSID and its channel you want to attack, after that, sudo airport en0 sniff x to capture packages of all SSIDs which located at channel x, en0 or en1 is the wifi setting of your mac, you can go to "About this mac -> System Report -> Network -> Wifi -> BSD Device name" to check out.

For example you want to capture packages from all SSIDs or from your determined SSID which have channel 6 sudo airport en0 sniff 6.

Hope that can help.

Raymer

Even if one is doing it running VM with Debain? – Stopgap

I recommend NO, because VM does not see the built in wifi card of your laptop as a wifi adapter, but will see it as an ethernet adapter. You still stay connected to internet but package injection and monitor mode is for wifi card only. – Raymer