WiFi scan/audit issues

[joelw99-jpg]

I am loving this repo for the pager!

When I run quick scan or wifi audit it comes back always with zero results, and with no errors. It discovers no APs or anything WiFi related.

Am I doing something wrong?

[joelw99-jpg]

Even with the external MK7AC connected, none of the payloads find any wifi activity at all.

What can I do to fix this? All the core pager functionally and Hak5 payloads work great, so I'm not sure why these aren't working.

[bad-antics]

Thanks @joelw99-jpg — and glad you're enjoying the repo! This is the same class of bug as #5 so copying the fix here too.

TL;DR: the pager has no internal recon radio. With your MK7AC plugged in, it almost certainly came up as wlan1 (not wlan0). Several of the nullsec payloads still default to wlan0, which explains the "zero results, no errors" signature — the interface exists as a name in the kernel but has no backing hardware, so every scan trivially succeeds with an empty list.

Run this first and paste the output:

ssh root@172.16.52.1 'ip link show; echo ---; iw dev; echo ---; lsusb | grep -i ralink; echo ---; cat /proc/net/wireless'

I'll know from that whether it's (a) MK7AC not enumerating at all, (b) enumerating but blocked by rfkill, or (c) enumerating fine and we just need to point the payloads at the right wlanN.

If the adapter is there, try this before running a payload:

ssh root@172.16.52.1 '
  export IFACE=wlan1
  airmon-ng check kill
  airmon-ng start wlan1
  iw dev wlan1mon scan | grep SSID | head
'

If that last iw line shows networks, the hardware side is fine and the payloads are the problem — I'll push a nullsec-autodetect-iface patch this week that picks the right adapter automatically instead of assuming wlan0. Tracking that as a separate item.

Also: Settings → Recon → Interface on the pager UI needs to be set to the external adapter, otherwise the built-in quick scan / audit will also come back empty even if the external hw is fine.

Let me know what ip link show says and we'll go from there.

[bad-antics]

Root cause confirmed and patched in #6 — every payload that was hardcoded to wlan0 now autodetects the right wireless interface via the new lib/nullsec-iface.sh helper. 69 payloads across 9 categories were refactored. Merging once CI settles; after that cd nullsec-pineapple-suite && git pull && ./install.sh will push the fixed payloads to your pager.

[joelw99-jpg]

Thank you!

Can I just run the Nullsec payload update payload?

[pstu276]

I have wlan1mon even without external USB. Airodump-ng works, e.g., when ssh into pager. Reaver works with internal wlan1mon, too. Are you really sure pager isn't abled to recon and need external USB?

[pstu276]

(the internal update payload didn't work for me)