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mads1101

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Registered: 2021-09-29

Posts: 11

Airmon-ng conflicting with NetworkManager issue [HELP]

hello !

I tried to use airmon-ng to monitor the networks around my device. but, when I tried to start the process for my interface it conflicts with NetworkManager and advises to kill the process.

after executing the command 

 airmon-ng start wlp2s0 

output,

Found 2 processes that could cause trouble.
Kill them using 'airmon-ng check kill' before putting
the card in monitor mode, they will interfere by changing channels
and sometimes putting the interface back in managed mode

    PID Name
 417454 NetworkManager
 417463 wpa_supplicant

PHY	Interface	Driver		Chipset

phy0	wlp2s0		ath10k_pci	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31)
		(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy0]wlp2s0 on [phy0]wlp2s0mon)
		(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy0]wlp2s0)

please, help me solve this issue.

thank you in advance !

Last edited by mads1101 (2022-07-20 13:42:29)

Slithery

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Re: Airmon-ng conflicting with NetworkManager issue [HELP]

Found 2 processes that could cause trouble.
Kill them using 'airmon-ng check kill' before putting
the card in monitor mode, they will interfere by changing channels
and sometimes putting the interface back in managed mode

So what happened when you did what was suggested?

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mads1101

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Registered: 2021-09-29

Posts: 11

Re: Airmon-ng conflicting with NetworkManager issue [HELP]

after entering monitor mode, next step is to catch the packets with airodump-ng .

it's just kept looking for networks and didn't found any. even though like 4 networks are available in the close range.