Bug 131549

Summary:	ifconfig(8) can't clear 'monitor' mode on the wireless device
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	yuri
Component:	wireless	Assignee:	freebsd-wireless (Nobody) <wireless>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	avos
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description yuri 2009-02-10 06:10:01 UTC

After I used 'airodump-ng -write ath0 ath0' ath0 interface was left in 'monitor' mode (which maybe is a bug in airodump itself).

Command 'ifconfig ath0 -monitor' is supposed to clear 'monitor' mode. But it doesn't seem to make any difference.

This is a very serious problem  since after this interface isn't usable until reboot.  It stays in 'monitor' mode (no packets go out or in).

Same is true for ral0 device.

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2009-02-10 08:09:43 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net

Over to maintainer(s).

Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2011-04-12 00:00:31 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-net->freebsd-wireless

new wireless mailing list; not a kern/ bug

Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2018-05-28 19:48:13 UTC

batch change:

For bugs that match the following
-  Status Is In progress 
AND
- Untouched since 2018-01-01.
AND
- Affects Base System OR Documentation

DO:

Reset to open status.


Note:
I did a quick pass but if you are getting this email it might be worthwhile to double check to see if this bug ought to be closed.

Comment 4 Andriy Voskoboinyk freebsd_committer

2018-12-17 02:24:00 UTC

Cannot reproduce with base r342152 - interface correctly passes traffic when ifconfig wlan0 -monitor is executed + it's not possible to apply any operations to the NIC - only to wlan's - since base r287197.