============================================================================== Note for FreeBSD 7.x: Contrary to Linux, it is not necessary to use airmon-ng to enable the monitor mode of your wireless card. So do not care about what the manpages say about airmon-ng, airodump-ng sets monitor mode automatically. To return from monitor mode, issue the following command: ifconfig ${INTERFACE} -mediaopt monitor Note for FreeBSD 8.x Due to the addition of virtual access points (VAP) in FreeBSD 8 you need to create a new wlan device in monitor mode to use with airodump-ng. To do so, issue the following command: ifconfig ${VAP_INTERFACE} create wlandev ${INTERFACE} wlanmode monitor For aireplay-ng you need FreeBSD >= 7.0. ==============================================================================