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Muhammad B Fada
Asked: 2014-12-27 03:23:33 +0800 CST

Problem with mon0 interface

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Please I have problem on my mon0 interface I try different ways but still couldn't fix it. I want to turn on mon0. and here is the outcome.

# airmon-ng start wlan0

Found 4 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID Name
722 avahi-daemon
730 avahi-daemon
775 NetworkManager
834 wpa_supplicant


Interface   Chipset     Driver

wlan0       Broadcom    wl - [phy0]mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
                        (monitor mode enabled on mon0)


# airodump-ng mon0
Interface mon0: 
ioctl(SIOCGIFINDEX) failed: No such device
root@mbfada-Lenovo-G400:/opt/aircrack-ng# airodump-ng wlan0
ioctl(SIOCSIWMODE) failed: Operation not supported

ARP linktype is set to 1 (Ethernet) - expected ARPHRD_IEEE80211,
ARPHRD_IEEE80211_FULL or ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM instead.  Make
sure RFMON is enabled: run 'airmon-ng start wlan0 <#>'
Sysfs injection support was not found either.


# airmon-ng start wlan0

Found 4 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID Name
722 avahi-daemon
730 avahi-daemon
775 NetworkManager
834 wpa_supplicant


Interface   Chipset     Driver

wlan0       Broadcom    wl - [phy0]mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
                        (monitor mode enabled on mon0)
aircrack-ng

2 Answers

  1. Ubuntu's network manager is conflicting. You can turn set it to manual using

    sudo stop network-manager
echo "manual" | sudo tee /etc/init/network-manager.override

    After that you should be able to run

    sudo airodump-ng start wlan0

    Alternatively, you could also set

    unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wlan0;interface-name:mon0

    or for a hw address

    unmanaged-devices=mac:11:22:33:44:55:66

    This can be changed in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf under section keyfile. See also 

    man NetworkManager.conf
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  2. Simply killing the processes works. You shouldn't need to unmanage the interface:

    As an example:

    kill 722 730 775 834
airmon-ng start wlan0

    The numbers (pid in the kill) will be different most of the times.

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