Broadcom BCM43142 monitor mode support
Hi, I was trying to set up my device into monitor mode but whenever I try to I get this message:
$ sudo iwconfig wlp3s0 mode monitor Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlp3s0 ; Operation not supported.
Output of lspci | grep BCM:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
Output of grep 'rfkill\|wireless':
$ lsmod | grep 'rfkill\|wireless'
rfkill 24576 7 bluetooth,hp_wmi,cfg80211
hp_wireless 16384 0
Output of rpm -qa | grep Network:
$ rpm -qa | grep Network
NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-wwan-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-1.2.4-3.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-team-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.4-1.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-1.2.4-1.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-libnm-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-wifi-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-1.2.4-1.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-adsl-1.4.2-2.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-1.2.6-1.fc25.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-gnome-1.2.4-1.fc25.x86_64
kernel:
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain
4.8.15-300.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 15 23:10:23 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Starting airmon-ng output:
[erabti@localhost ~]$ sudo airmon-ng check kill
Killing these processes:
PID Name
1277 wpa_supplicant
[erabti@localhost ~]$ sudo airmon-ng start wlp3s0
PHY Interface Driver Chipset
phy0 wlp3s0 wl Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
(experimental wl monitor mode vif enabled for [phy0]wlp3s0 on [phy0]prism0)
Airplay-ng -9 output:
[erabti@localhost ~]$ sudo aireplay-ng -a 94:A7:B7:4F:22:BE -e S.M.0 -9 prism0 --ignore-negative-one
10:36:40 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 94:A7:B7:4F:22:BE) on channel -1
For the given BSSID "94:A7:B7:4F:22:BE", there is an ESSID mismatch!
Found ESSID "S.M.O" vs. specified ESSID "S.M.0"
Using the given one, double check it to be sure its correct!
10:36:40 Trying broadcast probe requests...
10:36:42 No Answer...
10:36:42 Found 1 AP
10:36:42 Trying directed probe requests...
10:36:42 94:A7:B7:4F:22:BE - channel: 1 - 'S.M.0'
10:36:48 0/30: 0%
I'm totally new to GNU/Linux and Fedora in general. At first when I installed fresh copy of Fedora 25 the Wi-Fi wasn't work so I installed and followed this article. I installed rpmfusion free and non-free and installed akmod-wl.