Wifi symbol vanishes after using wifite

Question

I use Gnome DE and after I use wifite, the wifi symbol just vanishes and you can't connect to the wifi using GUI. I tried it on many desktop environments and most of them have this problem (except deepin)

I would like to know if there is any solution for this or how can I bring up the icon?

Solution

The problem is that when you use wifite it disables network manager and puts your wifi device down.

Try running sudo service network-manager restart

And -depending on the name of your wireless card- run sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Now you have to run sudo lshw -C network in order to see what your wifi card's name is. It will look like

*-network               
description: Wireless interface
       product: RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 24:ec:99:21:c9:29
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8723ae driverversion=3.8.0-27-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.74 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:c3000000-c3003fff

What you want to look at is logical name and when you run sudo ifconfig wlan0 up replace wlan0 with whatever the logical name of your wireless card is

Comments

[Abhijith Ajaya]

and idk if it's gnome's problem or wifite's problem coz it works fine in kali