packetmaestro
03-20-2007, 12:31 AM
I would like to set my Atheros wifi0 to have both 1 managed mode device "ath0" and 1 monitor mode device "ath1" while using both at the same time. Currently, only one device will work at a time. I used to do this with ethernet cards all the time by making virtual devices eth0:0 eth0:1 etc.. so I attempted the same theory on my wifi.
Assuming ath0 and wifi0 are already online and connected to an AP in managed mode, I did:
bt ~ # airmon-ng start wifi0
this will create ath1 in monitor mode, and leave ath0 in managed mode, but I can only use one or the other at a time.
I also tried:
wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor
ifconfig ath1 up
but the results are the same. I've searched the forums as best I can for a solution, but it looks like this may be impossible to accomplish. The strange thing is, I was actually able to do this yesterday, but I have no idea what I did to make it work.
Is there a solution to my problem?
Assuming ath0 and wifi0 are already online and connected to an AP in managed mode, I did:
bt ~ # airmon-ng start wifi0
this will create ath1 in monitor mode, and leave ath0 in managed mode, but I can only use one or the other at a time.
I also tried:
wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor
ifconfig ath1 up
but the results are the same. I've searched the forums as best I can for a solution, but it looks like this may be impossible to accomplish. The strange thing is, I was actually able to do this yesterday, but I have no idea what I did to make it work.
Is there a solution to my problem?