airmon-ng - Man Page

• List wireless devices and their statuses: sudo airmon-ng
• Turn on monitor mode for a specific device: sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
• Kill disturbing processes that use wireless devices: sudo airmon-ng check kill
• Turn off monitor mode for a specific network interface: sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon

tldr.sh

airmon-ng <start|stop> <interface> [channel] airmon-ng <check> [kill]

airmon-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.

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.

start <interface> [frequency]

Enable monitor mode on an interface (and specify a frequency in MHz). 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.

--verbose

This flag must precede start/stop/check and can be combined 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 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!

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 complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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