title: Reaver hanged up on waiting for beacon
body: <p>These are the commands I put into the terminal on my laptop.</p>
  <p><code> root@ubuntu:~#   reaver -i mon0 -b F8:7B:7A:69:9F</code></p>
  <pre><code>Reaver v1.4 WiFi Protected Setup Attack Tool
  </code></pre>
  <p><code>Copyright (c) 2011, Tactical Network Solutions, Craig Heffner &lt;cheffner@tacnetsol.com&gt; </code></p>
  <pre><code>[+] Waiting for beacon from F8:7B:7A:69:9F:0F
  
  root@ubuntu:~#  
  </code></pre>
  <p>This is what it says after brute forcing it</p>
  <p>F8:7B:7A:69:9F:0F         -43        7        0    0   6  54   WPA2 CCMP   PSK  p</p>
  <p>Edit: It's been almost 5 years since this question was asked.</p>
  <h2>Question</h2>
  <p>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?</p>