The primary function of airmon-ng is to put a wireless card into . In Windows, the standard NDIS drivers are designed for managed mode (connecting to Access Points) and typically lack the low-level hooks required for monitor mode or packet injection. Because airmon-ng relies on Linux-specific subsystems like mac80211 to manage these modes, it has no native equivalent in the Windows version of the Aircrack-ng suite. Solution 1: Using Virtualization (The Most Reliable Way)
You can install a penetration testing distribution like Kali Linux or Parrot OS within a VM.
Inside the WSL terminal, you can then install the aircrack-ng package and run airmon-ng . Aircrack with Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Window #1133
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