reaver and wash randomly stop working :Failed to re-initialize interface 'mon0'

[SuperKawaii]

why???

i tried to you reaver and wash and it always gave me that error message 'Failed to re-initialize interface 'mon0''

and then one day i tried using wash and it suddenly worked :S

and then i tried reaver and it too started working but only for a moment ,  why is this

this is the proof

[!] WPS transaction failed (code: 0x03), re-trying last pin

• Nothing done, nothing to save.
  
• 0.00% complete @ 2013-01-16 15:07:48 (0 seconds/pin)
  
• Trying pin 12345670
  
• Sending EAPOL START request
  
• Received identity request
  
• Sending identity response
  
• Received identity request
  
• Sending identity response
  
• Received identity request
  
• Sending identity response
  
• Received identity request
  
• Sending identity response
  
• Sending WSC NACK
  [!] WPS transaction failed (code: 0x03), re-trying last pin
  
• Trying pin 12345670
  
• Sending EAPOL START request
  
• Received identity request
  
• Sending identity response
  
• Received M1 message
  
• Sending M2 message
  
• Received M1 message
  
• Sending WSC NACK
  
• Sending WSC NACK
  [!] WPS transaction failed (code: 0x03), re-trying last pin
  
• Trying pin 12345670
  
• Switching mon0 to channel 12
  
• Switching mon0 to channel 6
  
• Sending EAPOL START request
  [!] WARNING: Receive timeout occurred
  
• Sending EAPOL START request
  [!] WARNING: Receive timeout occurred
  
• Sending EAPOL START request
  [!] WARNING: Receive timeout occurred
  
• Sending WSC NACK
  [!] WPS transaction failed (code: 0x04), re-trying last pin
  [-] Failed to re-initialize interface 'mon0'
  anon@anon-virtual-machine:~$
  
  why does it do this OMFG whyyy

[linuxshell]

your monitor mode on wlan stopped working... you can see that in last line.
maybe you have some background processes that you need to kill...

[SuperKawaii]

how do i kill backround processes lol ?

[weVeg]

kill processes by name

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killall -9 "process"

read the help or man

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killall --help
man killall

[SuperKawaii]

thnx friend :D

[bbcue]

nice little child  ::)