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Ritanshu Singh
Asked: 2018-05-10 08:19:19 +0800 CST

How can I reverse my wifi from monitor mode to normal mode?

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In a course named ethical Hacking for beginners , I learned that wifi has some modes in which we can switch between but I don't know that what was the normal mode and how to switch on it

I used following commands :-

ifconfig wlo1 down
iwconfig wlo1 mode monitor
ifconfig wlo1 up
wifi-hardware-switch hacking

5 Answers

  1. The "normal" mode is called managed. Just type:

    ifconfig wlo1 down
iwconfig wlo1 mode managed
ifconfig wlo1 up

    You may need to restart some services that you killed:

    service network-manager restart
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  2. Best Answer

    Managed mode is what you want:

    $ sudo ifconfig wlo1 down
$ sudo iwconfig wlo1 mode managed
$ sudo ifconfig wlo1 up

    And then restart networking:

    $ sudo service network-manager restart
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    1. Run:

      sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon

    2. Make sure your adapter is showing up. If it's not up, run:

      ifconfig wlan0 up

    3. Restart the services that you killed.

    4. Run:

      service NetworkManager start

    Note: service network-manager start will give a message saying it's not installed. Hence, run:

    sudo service NetworkManager start

    Your Wi-Fi adapter should restart at this point, so give it a second to show up.

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  4. I recently had this problem but what fixed it for me was

    Sudo apt-get install - - reinstall network-manager

    I hope this helps, Some useful commands I've learned along this journey are

    // lspci / displays pci //

    Lsusb / ports //

    Netstat - I /network services //

    Ip link show / can display your wlan0 card if not detected by ifconfig

    // Lspci also helps //

    Rfkill show all / my laptop had a "hard block" button that had an override over my wlan0, pressing ctrl c fixed this for me //

    Iwconfig / was used to check the status of my wlan0 card //

    Airmon-ng / showed my wlan0 card type as I originally thought it was a driver issue //

    Dhclient wlan0 / started a dhcp client as to try to resume connectivity // //WL-

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  5. 3 year-old question, but none of the answers seem to work anymore. What you want to do is run:

    sudo airmon-ng stop wlp3s0mon
sudo service network-manager restart

    replace wlp3s0mon with your wifi adapter name. Mine gets renamed from wlp3s0 to wlp3s0mon so I use that (this is when running wifite2). I even put the two commands into a bash script so I can double-click on it. It'll ask for root password, do its thing, and close the terminal.

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