The “wash” command has been notorious for having problems and not working correctly. Basically the “wash” command goes out and tells you if a router has WPS on it so you don’t wast your time running reaver. I believe I have found a fix that has been working for me on both Backtrack 5 and Kali Linux.
Be sure your wireless USB adapter is in monitor mode
“airmon-ng start wlan0”
Then make a directory like this.
“mkdir /etc/reaver”
Next run the wash command
“wash -i mon0 -C”
Be sure to use a capitol “C” and of course run the above commands without the brackets ” “.
I made a quick video for it here.
When I do airodump-ng wlan0 I see my router
when I use wash -i wlan0 I see other routers but not mine
any idea?
when i run wash -i wlan0, it shows this
[X] ERROR: pcap_activate status -1
[X] PCAP: generic error code
couldn’t get pcap handle, exiting
how can i solve this?
When you have issues with the monitoring interface just run airmon-Ng wlan0
And use the monitoring interface created by this daemon. I case of Kali it generally is wlan0mon
So
Wash -I wlan0mon
i have two routers with wps enabled as wps pin security thats tp-link routers , on mobile it shows wps enabled and can be cracked in android “wpa wps tester” in seconds but i am confused that it doesn’t shows wps enabled in this wash command or wifite or fern or anything in my kali any fix is appreciated..
When i use “wash -i mon0”
[!] Found packet with bad FCS, skipping…
[!] Found packet with bad FCS, skipping…
Else, “wash -i mon0 -C”
Nothing appears except the headers of bssid….
I am using Alfa AWUS036NH in Kali Linux.. Didnot install any driver as it was auto detected.
#uname -a
Linux G33k 3.14-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.4-1kali1 (2014-05-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Nothing will show up with the WASH command if there is no WPS enabled routers in range.
Hi,
I’m facing the same issue as gunner, and I know for a fact that there are several WPS enabled routers nearby. Yet, WASH doesn’t show them. Is there any way to fix this?
Simple but important, rep for that one.
@elkhorn: Did you solve this problem? I also had this problem when I forgot to use CTRL+C to free the USB adapter.
I’m probably doing something stupid, but I can’t get the wash command to work. First of all, I’ve been able to find my WPA2 Pin & Passphrase using Reaver v1.4 (running BT5R3 Gnome VM-32 under VMWare player 6.01, running on fully patched Win8 – 64 {ugh-ugh-ugh}). A bit slow, but it runs OK.
When I try to run wash, it fails with the following:
Wash v1.4 WiFi Protected Setup Scan Tool
Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner
[X] ERROR: Failed to open ‘-mon0’ for capturing
wlan0 & mon0 are up (and seemingly running) on an Alfa AWUS036NHR USB adapter.
Do I have to back down to the Alfa AWUS036NH USB adapter to get wash to work?
Or is there an update to the command that I haven’t located?
computer: HP h8-1414, AMD FX-6120 6-core 3.5GHz processor, 10GB DDR3-1600, Gigabyte M3970AM-HP mobo. Up-to-date Win8 64-bit OS.
I had this problem and so i ran it as sudo and it worked for me. I was not running as root before..
when i use the command wash -i mon0 the network don’t show in the list
the network security type is wpa/wpa2
encryption type aes/tkip
pls help
how i can get to show up
fyi i know the mac address num. of the network , i used the command
reaver -i mon0 -b [macnum] -vv but i keep geting the msg
faild to assosite the the [macnum] [bssid]
regards
Hi
Please teach or link how to hack using bt5 I have 36nh Alfa
Awsome thanks I could never get WASH to work.