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I cannot stop channel hopping on latest ubuntu, on aircrack website it sais that newotk managers or similar programs cause this...when launching airmon-ng it warns me that processes like dhcpi, network-manager can cause problems.

I tried to kill these processes with sudo kill -9 pid but the processes are immediately restarted.

I am using the ath9k driver.

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  • It does somewhat depend on the driver, but stopping all services noted in airmon-ng output should help. Aug 8, 2012 at 22:06
  • Does this work if you roll back to an earlier kernel?
    – belacqua
    Aug 9, 2012 at 0:27

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You will need to stop their services, not simply kill the process. Here's what you can do:

sudo service avahi-daemon stop
  • This stops the avahi-daemon.
sudo service network-manager stop
  • This stops Network Manager.
sudo wpa_cli -i wlan0 terminate
  • This should kill wpa_supplicant on your wlan0 interface.
sudo kill -9 dhclient_pid
  • Replace dhclient_pid with the pid of dhclient.

I suggest not executing all of these at once, but instead execute one and then check the channel hopping.

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Before setting your interface into monitor mode and trying to use any of the aircrack's wireless monitor and injection tools (ie: airodump-ng, aireplay-ng), always stop all network related services.

This is the command I use to stop all networking services and starting airmon:

sudo service avahi-daemon stop ; sudo service network-manager stop ; sudo wpa_cli -i wlan0 terminate ; sudo airmon-ng start wlan0

This is the command I use to stop airmon and starting all networking services back on:

sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon; sudo service network-manager start; sudo service avahi-daemon start

(Note that "wlan0mon" is the new notation for interfaces in monitor mode, starting with version 1.2-RC1. For previous versions, use "mon0")

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This should stop the network-manager, but I'm not sure if it will solve the issue:

sudo service network-manager stop

From: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1481660

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  • Should I installl compat-wireless ?
    – alal
    Aug 8, 2012 at 22:08
  • Kling the process didn't help...what should i do ?
    – alal
    Aug 8, 2012 at 22:28
  • Sorry, I never found a good solution to the channel hopping problem.
    – Jeff
    Aug 8, 2012 at 22:39

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