I was unable to bring up onboard WiFi to monitor mode on OPI+ with Kali 2.0 loboris img :
orangepi@OrangePi_kali:~$ uname -a
Linux OrangePi_kali 3.4.39 #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 12 12:03:03 CEST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

orangepi@OrangePi_kali:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
8189es                887631  0

root@OrangePi_kali:~# airmon-ng check kill
root@OrangePi_kali:~# airmon-ng start wlan0
PHY     Interface       Driver          Chipset
phy0    wlan0           ??????          unable to detect for sdio 0x024c:0x8179
cat: /sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/net/wlan0mon/type: No such file or directory

Newly created monitor mode interface wlan0mon is *NOT* in monitor mode.
Removing non-monitor wlan0mon interface...

I believe the 8189es driver is not compatible. Is there a way to rebuild it with the monitor mode support?

I was also trying to rebuild the driver for external USB Wifi key RTL-8187 from the scratch
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=r8187
The persistent kernel-headers related issue doesn't allow to build it so far.

Could any suggestions / solutions be given for this unexpected problem?

Hi,
The download link for RTL8189ES-000-change-build-settings.patch seems to no longer be valid:
https://raw.githubusercontent.co ... uild-settings.patch

Would someone with a copy of this patch care to make it available for download? Thank you.

It is repeatedly stated, that 8189es WiFi adapter doesn't switch to monitor mode.
Kali Linux is half useless without this feature. Could it be fixed as well as including the  RTL-8187 module into the kernel build?
The  RTL-8187 module is disabled in Kali image, while enables and functional on Armbian and Debian images.

I am going to test Kali on Opi One with RTL8187 USB card.

Could be this the reason that the module is disabled?:

«If you have a new kernel that support mac80211 and includes the new rtl8187 driver then you MUST blacklist it otherwise the ieee80211 version of the module below will not work. »

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=r8187#blacklisting_mac80211_driver_version

The 8189es WiFi doesn't switch to monitor mode under none of the linux builds. I tried Kali, Fedora, Armbian, Ubuntu.,

The  RTL8187 USB module was not loaded and the card was not attached to the system.

I saw the above article from the Aircrack, but it was not relevant, as I tested the  8189es WiFi  standalone.

I you have found some clues to make the 8189es WiFi work, it would be very helpful.

Here https://github.com/rdm-dev/rtl81 ... 0e93b086cafa6cc373a you can find latest known (to me) driver for RTL8189ES. Configuration is set directly in makefile. There is an option to enable monitor mode, but I didn't test it if it works.