NAME
airmon-ng - bash script designed to turn wireless cards into monitor
mode.
SYNOPSIS
airmon-ng <start|stop> <interface> [channel] airmon-ng <check> [kill]
DESCRIPTION
airmon-ng is 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 list/kill programs that can interfere with
the wireless card and set the right sources in /etc/kismet/kismet.conf
too.
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
wireless card. If ’kill’ is specified, it will try to kill all
of them.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Adam Cecile <gandalf@le-vert.net> for
the Debian system (but may be used by others). 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 complete text of
the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
licenses/GPL.
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airolib-ng(1)
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airtun-ng(1)
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kstats(1)
makeivs-ng(1)
packetforge-ng(1)
tkiptun-ng(1)
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