Fallback to 'iw' if 'iwconfig' fails

[Mister-X-]

This happened on NetHunter with Wifite v2.2.5.

root@kali:~# iwconfig 2>&1 | grep wlan
wlan1     no wireless extensions.
wlan0     no wireless extensions.
root@kali:~# airmon-ng start wlan1
Found 1 processes that could cause trouble.
Kill them using 'airmon-ng check kill' before putting
the card in monitor mode, they will interfere by changing channels
and sometimes putting the interface back in managed mode
  PID Name
26073 wpa_supplicant
PHY Interface   Driver      Chipset
phy0    p2p0        icnss       Not pci, usb, or sdio
phy0    wlan0       icnss       Not pci, usb, or sdio
phy9    wlan1       rt2800usb   Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070
        (mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy9]wlan1 on [phy9]wlan1mon)
        (mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy9]wlan1)
root@kali:~# iwconfig 2>&1 | grep wlan
wlan0     no wireless extensions.
wlan1mon  no wireless extensions.
root@kali:~# wifite
   .               .
 .´  ·  .     .  ·  `.  wifite 2.2.5
 :  :  :  (¯)  :  :  :  automated wireless auditor
 `.  ·  ` /¯\ ´  ·  .´  https://github.com/derv82/wifite2
   `     /¯¯¯\     ´
 [!] Warning: Recommended app bully was not found. install @ https://github.com/aanarchyy/bully
 [!] Warning: Recommended app pyrit was not found. install @ https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit/wiki
 [!] Warning: Recommended app hashcat was not found. install @ https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
 [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxdumptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool
 [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxpcaptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools
 [!] Conflicting processes: wpa_supplicant (PID 26073)
 [!] If you have problems: kill -9 PID or re-run wifite with --kill)
    Interface   PHY   Driver              Chipset
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 1. p2p0        phy0  icnss               Not pci, usb, or sdio
 2. wlan0       phy0  icnss               Not pci, usb, or sdio
 3. wlan1mon    phy9  rt2800usb           Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070
 [+] Select wireless interface (1-3): 3
 [+] enabling monitor mode on wlan1mon... failed
failed
 [!] Error: Cannot find any interfaces in Mode:Monitor
 [!] Full stack trace below
 [!]    Traceback (most recent call last):
 [!]    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wifite/__main__.py", line 93, in entry_point
 [!]        wifite.start()
 [!]    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wifite/__main__.py", line 53, in start
 [!]        Configuration.get_monitor_mode_interface()
 [!]    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wifite/config.py", line 129, in get_monitor_mode_interface
 [!]        cls.interface = Airmon.ask()
 [!]    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wifite/tools/airmon.py", line 319, in ask
 [!]        iface.interface = Airmon.start(iface)
 [!]    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wifite/tools/airmon.py", line 190, in start
 [!]        raise Exception('Cannot find any interfaces in Mode:Monitor')
 [!]  Exception: Cannot find any interfaces in Mode:Monitor
 [!] Exiting

It seems like it tries to use iwconfig output to determine if the card is in monitor mode (as seen by Mode:Monitor), but apparently, ieee80211 compatibility has been disabled, so any deprecated command (iwconfig and others) will fail, and this can be seen at the very beginning of the output.
So, what I would recommend is that if it happens, is to fallback to using iw to check if the interface is in monitor mode.

Note that airodump-ng works just fine on it.

I'm not sure if this happens with this version but I decided to open this here since derv82's repo hasn't seen any activity in a long time. Let me know if you prefer to have it opened in derv82's repo.

[kimocoder]

@Mister-X- iwconfig was just migrated to "iw", git pull and re-test

[Mister-X-]

Now works fine, thanks.

[kimocoder]

• Migrated ifconfig to ip
• Migrated iwconfig to iw
• Added "--daemon" mode