usage.rst

Usage

Enabling the monitor mode

To be able to sniff the probe requests, your Wi-Fi network interface must be set to monitor mode.

With ifconfig and iwconfig

sudo ifconfig <wireless interface> down
sudo iwconfig <wireless interface> mode monitor
sudo ifconfig <wireless interface> up

For example:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

With airmon-ng from aircrack-ng

To kill all the interfering processes:

sudo airmon-ng check kill

To enable the monitor mode:

sudo airmon-ng start <wireless interface>

For example:

sudo airmon-ng start wlan0

Command line arguments

Example of use

sudo probequest -i wlan0

Here is a sample output: