Thanks, kcdtv, killing the NetworkManager process worked just fine!
I'm booting from CD, non-persistant, so NetworkManager comes up each time I boot. It's easy enough to kill it, although it seems strange that it would come up by default. It interferes with any command line network configuration. If anyone is going to use the command prompt, I bet it's Kali users
Even in Forensic Mode, NetworkManager comes alive and scans for local available networks. I don't know if the scanning is passive, but I would consider it a bug if it was actively scanning by default... I'll look into it.
Thanks again,
bitsmack
