-m 2500 = WPA/WPA2 has a minimum password length of 8 (included). Therefore the word "amanda" will be rejected because it is too small (6 characters long).
You can use pipes (e.g. from cpu hashcat --stdout etc) to workaround this aggressive rejection.
You should be able to see the rejection count within the status screen (this normally is a good hint for what is going on).
You can use pipes (e.g. from cpu hashcat --stdout etc) to workaround this aggressive rejection.
You should be able to see the rejection count within the status screen (this normally is a good hint for what is going on).