AIRMON-NG(8)AIRMON-NG(8)NAMEairmon-ng - POSIX sh script designed to turn wireless cards into moni‐
tor mode.
SYNOPSISairmon-ng <start|stop> <interface> [channel] airmon-ng <check> [kill]
DESCRIPTIONairmon-ng This script can be used to enable monitor mode on wireless
interfaces. It may also be used to go back from monitor mode to managed
mode. Entering the airmon-ng command without parameters will show the
interfaces status. It can also list/kill programs that can interfere
with the wireless card operation.
OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
start <interface> [channel]
Enable monitor mode on an interface (and specify a channel).
Note: Madwifi-ng is a special case, 'start' has to be used on
wifi interfaces and 'stop' on ath interfaces.
stop <interface>
Disable monitor mode and go back to managed mode (except for
madwifi-ng where it kills the ath VAP).
check [kill]
List all possible programs that could interfere with the wire‐
less card. If 'kill' is specified, it will try to kill all of
them.
--verbose
This flag must precede start/stop/check and can be combined with
with other parameters or used alone. This flag will increase
the verbosity to provide additional useful information which may
not be needed for normal operation.
--debug
This flag must precede start/stop/check and can be combined with
with other parameters or used alone. This flag will increase
the verbosity to debug level to assist in troubleshooting errors
in airmon-ng. Use this flag when opening a bug, but only use
--verbose when requesting support in irc.
--elite
WARNING: DO NOT USE: This flag must precede start or stop and
will prevent airmon-ng from removing interfaces. WARNING: Use
of this flag will immediately disqualify receiving any support
from the aircrack-ng team, due to the fact that this behavior is
known to be broken. WARNING!
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Adam Cecile <gandalf@le-vert.net> for
the Debian system (but may be used by others). And modified to fit
airmon-ng by David Francos Cuartero <xayon@xayon.net>. Most recently
modified by Zero_Chaos to update for the airmon-zc rewrite. Permission
is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation On Debian systems, the com‐
plete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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