How can I reverse my wifi from monitor mode to normal mode?

Question

In a course named ethical Hacking for beginners , I learned that wifi has some modes in which we can switch between but I don't know that what was the normal mode and how to switch on it

I used following commands :-

ifconfig wlo1 down
iwconfig wlo1 mode monitor
ifconfig wlo1 up

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited May 20 '18 at 15:32

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The "normal" mode is called managed. Just type:

ifconfig wlo1 down
iwconfig wlo1 mode managed
ifconfig wlo1 up

You may need to restart some services that you killed:

service network-manager restart

edited May 20 '18 at 15:32

Seth

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answered May 09 '18 at 16:28

velix

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 10 '21 at 09:20

Run:
```
sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon
```
Make sure your adapter is showing up. If it's not up, run:
```
ifconfig wlan0 up
```
Restart the services that you killed.
Run:
```
service NetworkManager start
```

Note: service network-manager start will give a message saying it's not installed. Hence, run:

sudo service NetworkManager start

Your Wi-Fi adapter should restart at this point, so give it a second to show up.

Joshua Besneatte · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-13T17:04:24.697

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Managed mode is what you want:

$ sudo ifconfig wlo1 down
$ sudo iwconfig wlo1 mode managed
$ sudo ifconfig wlo1 up

And then restart networking:

$ sudo service network-manager restart

edited May 13 '18 at 17:04

answered May 09 '18 at 16:29

Joshua Besneatte

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since ifconfig is obsolete now (no longer installed), maybe you could update this to use ip link set wlo1 down etc. This would also get around the problem that your edit made this answer extremely similar to velix's (although I think the sudos in your version are needed). – Zanna Sep 07 '20 at 16:37

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 11 '20 at 02:25

I recently had this problem but what fixed it for me was

Sudo apt-get install - - reinstall network-manager

I hope this helps, Some useful commands I've learned along this journey are

// lspci / displays pci //

Lsusb / ports //

Netstat - I /network services //

Ip link show / can display your wlan0 card if not detected by ifconfig

// Lspci also helps //

Rfkill show all / my laptop had a "hard block" button that had an override over my wlan0, pressing ctrl c fixed this for me //

Iwconfig / was used to check the status of my wlan0 card //

Airmon-ng / showed my wlan0 card type as I originally thought it was a driver issue //

Dhclient wlan0 / started a dhcp client as to try to resume connectivity // //WL-

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 23 '22 at 06:32

3 year-old question, but none of the answers seem to work anymore. What you want to do is run:

sudo airmon-ng stop wlp3s0mon
sudo service network-manager restart

replace wlp3s0mon with your wifi adapter name. Mine gets renamed from wlp3s0 to wlp3s0mon so I use that (this is when running wifite2). I even put the two commands into a bash script so I can double-click on it. It'll ask for root password, do its thing, and close the terminal.

How can I reverse my wifi from monitor mode to normal mode?

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