Change Pandora Wireless Mode

[fdelapena]

If you want to change wireless mode (the default is managed) you can do this from the terminal:

First, some apps can manage wireless. You can kill them:

sudo -s

killall NetworkManager

Another Apps using network are avahi-daemon and wpa-supplicant.

NetworkManager puts networking up. Once killed you can do for example:

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up

You can do iwconfig without parameters to ensure if the interface is running the selecte mode:

iwconfig

That's all!

 

[davidgro]

Does it support mode Master?
(Custom portable hotspot!)
If not, someone should get hacking... (wish it were me)

 

[fdelapena]

I tried it but it didn't work for me with this receipt. Maybe as ad-hoc works.

Or trying:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
wireless-mode master
wireless-essid myaccesspoint
address 192.168.1.1
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255

in /etc/network/interfaces, then /etc/init.d/networking restart
Don't tested by me yet.

 

[javaJake]

 killall NetworkManager

A nicer way to shut down anything that's configured your network is instead to use:

/etc/init.d/networking stop

It's always best to see if there's an init.d script that is already managing the process you're killing before you kill it by hand.

 

[Creature XL]

 killall NetworkManager

A nicer way to shut down anything that's configured your network is instead to use:

/etc/init.d/networking stop

It's always best to see if there's an init.d script that is already managing the process you're killing before you kill it by hand.

I just had a quick look, however, NetworkManager doesn#t seems to be started by init.d/networking

 

[paulguy]

It's started by /etc/init.d/NetworkManager.