NAME

       airmon-ng - POSIX sh script designed to turn wireless cards into monitor mode.

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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.

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.

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

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>.  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.

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-rc4                                   February 2016                                     AIRMON-NG(8)