Wifite: aircrack-ng NOT utilising "neon" CPU instruction set by default, resulting in much slower hash rates on Raspberry Pi 5

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Apologies if this issue has been addressed in a previous post

It appears that "wifite" running on Raspberry Pi 5 running Kali (2024.4 fully patched) does NOT utilise the aircrack-ng "--simd=neon" CPU switch, resulting in a much slower hash rate. The following documentation states it should be using advanced CPU instruction sets, by default, if available.

https://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=aircrack-ng (Details found under the "SIMD" heading)

I ran "aircrack-ng--simd-list" to display available CPU instruction sets and BOTH Raspberry Pi's (Zero 2 W &Pi 5) support "neon"

The document from aircrack states that the aircrack-ng process will automatically utilise the advance CPU instruction set. I can see this is for the case of "Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W", when I run wifite, but it looks like it uses the "--simd=generic" switch by default on the "Raspberry Pi 5"

I ran the aircrack-ng --simd switches and got the following results

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W "--simd=generic" = 26 k/s
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W "--simd=neon" = 464 k/s
Raspberry Pi 5 "--simd=generic" = 210 k/s
Raspberry Pi 5 "--simd=neon" = 2800 k/s

When I run wifite on "Zero 2 W", I get the expect "neon" speeds, but on the "Pi 5", I'm only getting "generic" speeds.