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Why is Wireshark not showing monitor interface anymore?

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I've been using Kali for about 2 weeks and been playing around with Wireshark a lot in that time.

About 30 minutes ago, Wireshark stopped showing the "mon0" interface after I input the "airmon-ng start wlan0" command. I refresh the interface list and get nothing.

And NOW when I sniff with just the "wlan0" interface, promiscuous mode only (no monitor mode check box) I can't capture ANY packets. What could be causing this? It was working wonderfully just this morning.

asked 05 Jan '15, 12:34

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edited 06 Jan '15, 08:32

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Well, this has been resolved. Somehow, under preferences, the check box for "hide interface" was checked on mon0. But, it seems to revert to that each time I reopen the program. It's probably something dumb I did accidentally.

Wlan0 capturing resolved itself somehow, so I'm back to full functionality, I'm just not sure exactly what caused the initial issue.

answered 06 Jan '15, 14:51

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