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Reaver hanged up on waiting for beacon

These are the commands I put into the terminal on my laptop.

root@ubuntu:~# reaver -i mon0 -b F8:7B:7A:69:9F

Reaver v1.4 WiFi Protected Setup Attack Tool

Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner <cheffner@tacnetsol.com> 

[+] Waiting for beacon from F8:7B:7A:69:9F:0F

root@ubuntu:~#

This is what it says after brute forcing it

F8:7B:7A:69:9F:0F -43 7 0 0 6 54 WPA2 CCMP PSK p

Edit: It's been almost 5 years since this question was asked.

Question

What causes Reaver to be hanged up on beacon? Could it be a software problem with Linux itself? Can it be the security used in the network? What is it?

Solution

  • This is how you could set the channel reaver -i mon0 -b F8:7B:7A:69:9F:0F -c <channel> -vv might work a little better at least it will be more targeted.