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AIRMON-NG(8)           DragonFly System Manager's Manual          AIRMON-NG(8)

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).  And modified to fit
       airmon-ng by David Francos Cuartero <xayon@xayon.net>.  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.

SEE ALSO
       airbase-ng(8)
       aireplay-ng(8)
       airodump-ng(8)
       airodump-ng-oui-update(8)
       airserv-ng(8)
       airtun-ng(8)
       besside-ng(8)
       easside-ng(8)
       tkiptun-ng(8)
       wesside-ng(8)
       aircrack-ng(1)
       airdecap-ng(1)
       airdecloak-ng(1)
       airolib-ng(1)
       besside-ng-crawler(1)
       buddy-ng(1)
       ivstools(1)
       kstats(1)
       makeivs-ng(1)
       packetforge-ng(1)
       wpaclean(1)

Version 1.2-rc2                   April 2015                      AIRMON-NG(8)