airmon-ng(1)

airmon-ng1

Bash script designed to turn wireless cards into monitor mode

Usage

airmon-ng {<start | stop> <interface> [channel]}

Overview

airmon-ng is a bash script designed to turn wireless cards into monitor mode. It autodetects which card you have and run the right commands.
airmon-ng can set the right sources in /etc/kismet/kismet.conf too.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0

Author

This manual page was written by Adam Cecile <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). 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.

From aircrack-ng 1:1.0~rc1-2 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.