Avoiding Airmon-ng Check Kill and restarting NetworkManager

If you evoke airmon-ng check kill in kali2.0 and then try and restore NetworkManager later on thru such commands as:

service NetworkManager restart
service network-manager restart
service wpa_supplicant restart

You will find full functionality of the wireless menus does not occur.

There is a better way:

Instead of using airmon-ng check kill try killing the processes thru pgrep.

Enter

pgrep NetworkManager [Enter]

You will get a PID number

In this example the PID number is 1112

Next Enter

kill 1112

This kills NetworkManager

Next type

pgrep wpa_supplicant [Enter]

In this example the PID number is 2221

kill 2221

This kills wpa_supplicant

You can test this by running airodump-ng

When you want to restore wireless functionality type

service NetworkManager restart
service wpa_supplicant restart

You can test for full functionality by trying to connect to a network you never associated to before.

MTeams

Thanks , You can also make the interface in monitor mode without killing anything, by :

ifconfig wlan(x) down

iwconfig wlan(x) mode monitor

ifconfig wlan(x) up

and then revert by

changing mode monitor to " managed "