I'm starting airodump-ng from the aircrack-ng package (version 1:1.2-0~beta3-4 on 16.04) like this:
Switch my WiFi device to monitor mode (creates new virtual interface
mon0):sudo airmon-ng start wlp3s0Start the dumping:
sudo airodump-ng mon0
Now I'm running the Unity desktop and using the default network manager indicator. If I click on that and remove the tick at Enable Wi-Fi, my session immediately crashes and I'm thrown to the log-in screen. All running applications were killed.
Additionally, if I suspend the notebook after that and wake up again, I must enter my password twice, as there appears one additional dialogue window asking for my password to unlock or offering to switch the user. After I enter my password, I get to the ordinary lock screen which asks me again.
Is this all a bug in airodump-ng, or is there more about it, am I missing a driver, configuration or anything else that could serve as workaround to avoid this in the future? An answer describing how to not allow to disable the WiFi while airodump-ng is running would also count as valid workaround.
Update:
Here is some information about my WiFi adapter:
$ iwconfigwlp3s0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off$ lspci | grep -i wireless03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3165 (rev 81)$ inxi -nNetwork: Card-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: 08:d4:xx:xx:xx:xx$ sudo lshw -c network *-network description: Wireless interface product: Wireless 3165 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: wlp3s0 version: 81 serial: 08:d4:0c:b3:0b:19 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.4.0-24-generic firmware=16.242414.0 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn resources: irq:127 memory:a4000000-a4001fffAlso, I tried what happens if I disable the WiFi not using the network indicator but through the terminal:
sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 downsudo ifconfig mon0 downThis did not do anything. My session has not crashed, but airodump-ng also did not stop capturing packets... Do I need to use a different command to disable WiFi the same way as the network indicator does?
