can't change channel of my wifi interface using aircrack

Question

Whenever I try to listen to a specific wifi channel using airodump I got : fixed channel wlan0: -1
I try to change the channel but it's always -1!

I use Ubuntu 12.04.

I think this question better asked on http://askubuntu.com/ – Moataz Elmasry Sep 20 '12 at 12:53 — Moataz Elmasry, Sep 20 '12 at 12:53
http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/ticket/742 – Slim Aloui Sep 20 '12 at 13:08 — Slim Aloui, Sep 20 '12 at 13:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 08 '15 at 16:48

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What you have to do is execute ifconfig wlan0 down

make sure you are not connected to any wireless network, try:
airodump-ng -<the channel you want> --bssid<the wireless network you want> mon0

If it doesn't work, try:

edited Nov 08 '15 at 16:48

T3 H40

answered Nov 08 '15 at 15:53

Elhamer Yacine

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