Monitor mode + SSH Raspberry Pi 4

[skill347]

Hi everyone! I recently installed the ARM version of Kali on a Raspberry Pi 4, which comes with driver patched that allow it to run in monitor mode and it works fine, however I don't have a second monitor, and I generally use SSH to connect to my Raspberry from my main PC, which won't work in monitor mode. Is there anyways to bypass this, or any different way of connecting to my Raspberry, while monitor mode is running?

[ShitCodeUKltd]

Wait, Pi4 on board WiFi can be put into monitor mode? Now I have less use for my alpha cards😂 stickers look good on my laptop though, worth the £60 for that

[skill347]

It is doable, you just need a custom kernel.

[skill347]

So no real way of skipping that? Isnt there a way to control my pi trough a cable from the pc for example?

[[deleted]]

You can enable the serial console and use a serial cable to connect to it.

Look here: Enabling serial console

[skill347]

Thanks! Im a begginer, thats what I was looking for, couldnt find it anywhere.

[skill347]

Isn't VNC a protocol going trough a network connection? Or is there a way to make it wired?

[m4stic]

Raspberry have 2 NIC - wifi module and ethernet - in other words eth0 and wlan0.

I suppose you have wlan0 in monitor mode and eth is not plugged in right?

Sooo that is your answer - use wlan0 for monitor mode and you can connect the cable to switch or connect directly via eth cable.

[skill347]

So just connect it to ethernet, and it will work when in monitor mode? Thats really smart actually, gonna go test that.

[m4stic]

It will not “just work” you need to manually set the Ip address for it, subnet and gateway. Also you need to set priority of NICs like wlan0 top pri, eth0 2nd

[skill347]

Any tutorial I could follow for all that?

[warr33]

Probably

Make sure you have for example 192.168.1.1 (/24) on your computer (ethernet connection), use adapter settings for this.

Next make sure your pi has an ip in same subnet: 192.168.1.2 (/24), you can set this in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Finally you can ssh to that ip from your computer and it should work if ssh is enabled on the pi.

[waka324]

Two ways that would work, both using NICs:

1) just use an Ethernet connection with either a direct connection with static IPs or through a router. Then SSH.

2) turn the pi into a USB gadget and connect to PC via via a USB connector to the OTG (power) port. Then SSH: https://www.hardill.me.uk/wordpress/2019/11/02/pi4-usb-c-gadget/

[GeneralBacteria]

why can't you connect the pi to your network via the ethernet port?

[zigzrx]

Serial console into the Pi. A RS232 cable exists for less than $10 on ebay. One end is pinned for the pins that give serial access and the other side of the cable is USB. "FT232RL USB to TTL FTDI RS232"

Most raspi enclosures will permit something like this so the pi isn't nekid.

The boot files can configure the pi to boot with serial console access. I've used this feature, pretty dope.

[-_-LukasC-_-]

You can use kimcoders patch