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Explain airodump-ng 5ghz

Asked by Andrew Jenkins Apr 4, 2022 2.4K views 1 answer
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 I am a beginner in pen-testing, and I am interested in learning, but I seem to run into a brick wall when trying to do so. I have an AP which broadcasts in 2.4ghz and 5ghz. Pretty standard. I am using an alfa AWUS051NH as my network card for the testing, so I am certain the problem is not with the adapter. My problem is that when I put the card into monitor mode and regularly run airodump-ng to list the AP's and users, I only see 2.4ghz networks, despite the 5ghz capabilities. I am running the latest distro of kali linux, and I have seen the -C flag in my googling, but it constantly returns the error of Done, frequency not supported or something like that. Here is specifically what I enter when I run airodump;


      • Put card in monitor mode:
    • sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
    • start airodump-ng:
  • airodump-ng wlan0mon


Is there a way to sniff for 5ghz AP's too? All help is appreciated greatly. Happy hacking!

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