Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

2008/11/7 Fred Elno <raptor@drakonix.fr>:

> Then if I want to shootdown kis0, I will use airmon-ng like this:
>
> $ airmon-ng stop kis0
>
> And kis0 will be destroyed.
> So I think you can destroy any child of wifi0 by doing this with airmon-ng

The problem is that if I try to destroy the original logical interface
ath0 the physical interface is shutdown too.  /etc/init.d/net.ath0
status shows that the interface is stopped.

> For enabling monitor mode I do like you:
>
> $ airmon-ng start wifi0
>
> It will create a new child of wifi0, ath1 in my case.
> Then starting 'airodump-ng ath1' will let me capture packet coming on ath1, if of course any AP are active in my
> neighbourhood

Unlike you I cannot get it to work.  It will not capture anything.
Airodump-ng shows an empty table.
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Regards,
Mick