As network manager can conflict with Phishing when using PwnStar9 we provide this quick fix to keep Network Manager quiet and not try and connect to a client automatically thus disrupting the wifi device. Disabling NetworkManager is NOT the best solution. Some laptops disable the entire wifi system when you disable Network Manager. In extreme cases you can only enable it again by running a windows based application then shutting down and restarting in Linux. So rather then disable the system just put it gently to sleep as follows:
To keep NetworkManager quiet during restarts
Go to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
You will see text files with the names off all your connections
Open each file with leafpad or any text editor and add to the [connection] block the following;
autoconnect=false
Here is an example of [connection] turning off the autoconnect feature - all other data is an example only and some data has been truncated
Example
[connection]
id=Wifi
uuid=fbe !truncated!
type=802-11-wireless
autoconnect=false
timestamp=1400000000
When the wifi device is in the automatically connect mode no autoconnect line is seen in the [connection] block
If you want to add mac spoofing at this time just add
cloned-mac-address=00:11:22:33:44:55
to the [802-11-wireless] block
Example
[802-11-wireless]
ssid=Home1
mode=infrastructure
mac-address=55:44:33:22:11:00
cloned-mac-address=00:11:22:33:44:55
security=802.11-wireless-security
You can still use the NetworkManager drop down menu to do these operations BUT a text editor is easier
MTD
