If Kali responds with any warnings, type in airmon-ng check kill Open up a terminal and type in airmon-ng start wlan0 We will need a wifi card that supports monitor mode for this tutorial Step 2: Put Kali Linux in monitor mode and view traffic To do this, we can open up a terminal and type iw listĪs you can see, my wifi card has “monitor” listed under “Supported interface modes.” If your card doesn’t support monitor mode, you can buy a wifi adapter from amazon. Step 1: Check if your card supports monitor modeīefore we do anything, you need to make sure that your wifi adapter supports monitor mode. Capturing this handshake is essential to cracking the password.

If your wifi card doesn’t support monitor mode, you can’t hack the wifi using this method. Checking if our wireless card supports monitor mode – the only way we can hack a wifi router like this is by sniffing traffic in monitor mode.

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