Nobody seems to know the solution.: Freeze on monitor mode. VMWare BT3F. Alfa RTL8187

[Mr. Flibble]

I concur with Pureh@te. If "iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor" works, what is the problem?

If you don't understand why we are asking this, I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "airmon-ng start" is supposed to do. You might want to look into the basics of how wireless sniffing/cracking works so you understand why it is you are trying to run this command. (Here is a hint: check the man page for airmon-ng, then then check what the iwconfig command listed above does.....)

[dani0101]

I though that
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
equals:
airmon-ng start wlan0

But should not airodump-ng work after you execute iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor?
it does not in my case! :\
is my case "airodump-ng" only work if "airmon-ng start wlan0" worked.

[purehate]

Your just not giving hardly any info to work with.

[mfBaranian]

if you've put your card in monitor mode airodump-ng should be able to scan and sniff data regardless the way you've put your card in monitor mode. The only difference would be if you use airmon-ng and it establishes a new interface for monitoring (like mon0). Then you have to use that new interface with airodump.
But like Pureh@te said until you give some better info we're tapping in the dark.

The best would be to post the output of the commands that give you trouble.

[Snayler]

Are you booting your vm-machine with your card attached to vmware? (not to host)