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#1 2014-09-02 16:31:26

sugartest
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Registered: 2014-07-09
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[SOLVED] Siocsifflags error : Name not unique on network

Hi everyone.

I just got a new computer and Archlinux is running perfectly fine except for what come to run someting like aircrack-ng suite.

# airmon-ng start wlan0

returns

wlp6s0  Atheros AR9462  ath9k - [phy0]SIOCSIFFLAGS: Name not unique on network

I searched but nothing came up to solve my problem.
I get the same error when running

# airodump-ng -s 0 mon0

it returns

ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: Name not unique on network

Here is my lspci if it is of some help

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev d5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM87 Express LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104M [GeForce GTX 870M] (rev ff)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 PCI Express to PCI Bridge [Cheetah Express] (rev 01)
04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 IEEE-1394b OHCI Controller [Cheetah Express] (rev 01)
05:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5289 (rev 01)
05:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0a)
06:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

My Wi-Fi PCIE is a Bigfoot Networks Killer by the way.

EDIT:

Replacing the "localhost" assigned to 127.0.0.1 with my hostname fixed the problem.

Last edited by sugartest (2014-09-04 15:56:03)


An Arch Linux enthousiast and a Linux fan in general, mostly interrested in command line use, security issues, code learning and networks.

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#2 2014-10-05 17:50:54

ranea
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Registered: 2014-10-05
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Re: [SOLVED] Siocsifflags error : Name not unique on network

How exactly did you fix it?

I tried to change /etc/hosts and replacing localhost but it didn't work.

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#3 2014-10-05 18:41:21

ewaller
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Re: [SOLVED] Siocsifflags error : Name not unique on network

you may want to post your /etc/hosts file.  Also, what is the output of hostname   ?
Finally, is it possible there really are more than one computer on your network with the same hostname?


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#4 2014-10-06 16:58:24

ranea
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Registered: 2014-10-05
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Re: [SOLVED] Siocsifflags error : Name not unique on network

Finally, i got it.

This is my /etc/hosts

#<ip-address>   <hostname.domain.org>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1       archpc
::1            localhost.localdomain   localhost

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