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

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       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)