No such BSSID available.

[coubury]

OK i run this command

airodump-ng --channel 1 --write psk wlan4 and below is what comes up..


CH 1 ][ Elapsed: 2 mins ][ 2008-03-09 07:33 ][ fixed channel wlan4: 7

BSSID PWR RXQ Beacons #Data, #/s CH MB ENC CIPHER AUTH ESSID

00:14:A4:6C6:66 108 100 1282 15 0 1 48 WPA TKIP PSK WANADOO-DB30
00:900:F7:5B:A3 98 0 8 0 0 1 48 WPA TKIP PSK rathoreholly
00:18:F6:5F:6D:57 99 0 33 0 0 7 48 WEP WEP BTHomeHub-C201

BSSID STATION PWR Rate Lost Packets Probes


but then i run aireplay-ng -1 0 -e BTHomeHub-C201 -a 00:18:F6:5F:6D:57 -h 00:0e:2e:c8:4e:08 wlan4
07:32:15 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 00:18:F6:5F:6D:57) on channel 1
07:32:25 No such BSSID available.


now kismet tells me BTHOMEHUB-c201 is on channel 7 so i run airodump-ng --channel 7 --write psk wlan4 and the same thing comes up..


i have noticed up in the top right hand corner " fixed channel wlan4: 7" this appears whats this about? it keeps going from 1 to 10 just happend to be on 7 when i copy and pasted it here.

[hhmatt]

You don't know which channel your ap is using?

First thing, when you run airodump it will still pickup AP's that are strong enough no matter what channel your on. I think this has to do with a high signal strength along with the small gap between the channel frequencies.

Next, You might want to set your card to channel 7.
iwconfig wlan4 channel 7

Also make sure that any other wireless interfaces are not channel hopping while your trying to do this. Best to just take them down like this:
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan1 down
etc...

I'm not sure if this will work but you might want to try entering the ESSID with quotes.

Another thing that I'm unsure if it works or not but I never enter the BSSID using capital letters.

You can also shorten your commands by using -c instead of --channel and -w instead of --write
This makes things slightly quicker and easier to type.

[coubury]

i didnt type them in capital letters when i was running the commands i just done it when writing out that post by accident


ill try this now cheers

[coubury]

no its still coming up

root@coubury-desktop:/home/coubury# aireplay-ng -1 0 -e BTHomeHub-C201 -a 00:18:F6:5F:6D:57 -h 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan4
09:09:37 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 00:18:F6:5F:6D:57) on channel 2
09:09:41 wlan4 is on channel 2, but the AP uses channel 7
root@coubury-desktop:/home/coubury# aireplay-ng -1 0 -e BTHomeHub-C201 -a 00:18:F6:5F:6D:57 -h 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan4
09:09:46 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 00:18:F6:5F:6D:57) on channel 1
09:09:57 No such BSSID available.


even tho

CH 7 ][ Elapsed: 2 mins ][ 2008-03-09 09:10 ][ fixed channel wlan4: 1

BSSID PWR RXQ Beacons #Data, #/s CH MB ENC CIPHER AUTH ESSID

00:18:F6:5F:6D:57 0 0 19 0 0 7 48 WEP WEP BTHomeHub-C201

BSSID STATION PWR Rate Lost Packets Probes

[meknb]

Have you got any other wireless tools running ie wireless assistant or kismet might be channel hopping ?
Also try putting you bssid in quotation marks ie 'BTHomeHub-C201' airodump-ng might not like the -C201.

[coubury]

nah it didnt work mate.

[meknb]

Are you using kismet as well as airodump? if so just try with airodump. Also have you tried using airmon-ng to set you channel ie airmon-ng start wlan4 7

[coubury]

no i stopped kismet and yeah i also tried airmon-ng to sdet the channel

[purehate]

The aircrack site hase plenty of documentation on ssid's with special characters.


I have highlighted the special char. for you. BTHomeHub-C201

[drgr33n]

What card are you using ? If you have a managed and a monitor port setup on your card and your managed port is or has been connected to a network this can lock your card to a channel. Stop the managed and monitor port with wlanconfig and recreate just a monitor port, and now you should be able to channel hop.

And sorry for using the word "port" I couldn't think of another name to call them