awus036ach driver is not properly detected about aircrack-ng-archive

[ZeroChaos-]

I'll take a look but this is a fork of a fork of a vendor driver. Looks like it's mixing wext and nl80211, this is really ugly.

[cristi28]

Now whit this driver https://github.com/astsam/rtl8812au/tree/v4.3.21 its detected
┬─[root@sRupLbUc:~]─[20:47:04]
╰─>$ airmon-ng 20:47:04

PHY Interface Driver Chipset

phy1 wlan0 8812au Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter
but no mod monitor
$ airmon-ng start wlan0
PHY Interface Driver Chipset

phy1 wlan0 8812au Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter
cat: /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/device/net/wlan0mon/type: No existe el fichero o el directorio

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

WARNING: unable to start monitor mode, please run "airmon-ng check kill"

whith iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor i have mod monitor on wlan0 and everything work fine

[ZeroChaos-]

After some light testing I noticed a few things:

This isn't really a mac80211 driver, but it also isn't a wext driver. it's kind of an ugly hack between them. Channel is set with nl80211 but key things like /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/device/net/wlan0mon/type are missing and cannot set monitor mode with nl80211 (iw).

WEXT can be used to set "monitor mode", but not channel (which isn't even being reported through WEXT. While the card claims to be in monitor mode, when testing aireplay-ng it appears the channel is still being changed (even with nothing running to change it) and there are very few packets really being seen.

Personally, I'm going to say this driver doesn't work, as a sad fact, in all the various forks on github none of them seem to really work. This one is the best I've tested, but it looks like it's still missing a lot of basic features and is still having an identity crisis. Hopefully it keeps improving and works soon.