Newb help getting monitor mode going on a RTL8812AU?

[7MinSec]

Hello,

I've got a Kali Linux VM running 2024.2, 6.8.11-amd64. I've got a RTL8812AU hooked up to this VM which is physically connected to a Proxmox server (latest version).

What I'd like to do is get monitor mode turned on for this RTL8812AU but I'm not 100% sure this is supported. In places like this it seems that maybe there are known versions with my kernel version and I have to use a different OS.

But other searches led me to this project and suggested I try installing the driver. I did:

sudo apt install make gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential git
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88
cd rtw88
sudo make
sudo make install

This all completed without errors:

make -C /lib/modules/6.8.11-amd64/build M=/opt/rtw88 modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.8.11-amd64'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.8.11-amd64'
Install rtw88 SUCCESS

From here I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do. When I run the lsmod command I get:

└─$ lsmod | grep rtw
rtw_8812au             12288  0
rtw_8821a             114688  1 rtw_8812au
rtw_usb                28672  1 rtw_8812au
rtw_core              311296  2 rtw_usb,rtw_8821a
mac80211             1396736  2 rtw_usb,rtw_core
cfg80211             1355776  4 rtw_core,8812au,mac80211,88XXau
usbcore               409600  9 xhci_hcd,rtw_usb,usbhid,ehci_hcd,8812au,xhci_pci,rtw_8812au,88XXau,uhci_hcd

So should I put the mac80211 and cfg80211 and usbcore on the blocklist, and then run sudo modprobe -r rtw_core to get the card going?

[7MinSec]

I think I got it working by adding these to my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist 8812au
blacklist 88XXau
blacklist rtl8xxxu
blacklist r8188eu