airodump-ng not saving packets

[Neongreen]

Hi all,
I have my EEE701 set up with a bootable SD card, without persistent changes.

For some reason I can collect as many packets as I need to decrypt my network's WEP key, but aircrack says it was unable to find the network in the file when I provide the BSSID, and even spoonwep just spends all of it's time sitting on "Cracking Packets".

I also can't find the capture file on the harddrive so I assume that airodump-ng isn't generating it.

Any idea? Is it the persistent changes that are the problem? It'd involve a lot of work on my end to enable them so I'd like to get by without them if possible.

Thanks all for your anticipated help!

[toxic veins]

can you post the commands you used with aircrack-ng and the output message.

[orange]

I also can't find the capture file on the harddrive so I assume that airodump-ng isn't generating it.

The airodump-ng command you need should look like this

# airodump-ng -c <channel> --bssid <bssid> -w dump, or whatever <interface>

Any idea? Is it the persistent changes that are the problem? It'd involve a lot of work on my end to enable them so I'd like to get by without them if possible.

I don't think that non-persistent mode is your problem here, but the -w switch of airodump-ng (please post your command) - the output of airodump-ng is written straight into the ramdisk. Btw, where's the problem in setting up persistent mode? Lot of work? It's just a partition labelled casper-rw (OR a file named casper-rw)

[imported_MadHatter]

Did you start your wifi in monitor mode? For me, to start it I say

airmon-ng start wlan0

But it depends on the interface, like you could have ath0 or wifi0 etc. To find out which one it is just do either

airmon-ng

or

iwconfig

Hope it helps.