system crash when using aireplay-ng

[Alex Watson]

When I run 'sudo aireplay-ng -0 5 -e [SOME ESSID] wlan0' it says something about sending broadcast deauth to [SOME MAC ADDRESS] and it just hangs there. When I try to ctrl+c it doesn't do anything. However, the system is fine until I try to do something with the wlan0 interface. If I, for example, right-click on the network applet icon in the system tray and click 'enable networking' the system completely freezes. I cannot move the mouse or do ctrl+alt+backspace after this occurs and I am forced to do a hard shutdown.

[b1nary (e-yntema)]

I have the same problem. I was hoping that at last I can use aireplay-ng with my macbook pro santa rosa (3 gen), wifi card chipset AR5008, with the new ath9k driver.

[mrdproffitt (proffitt-martin)]

I also have the same problem: started aireplay-ng using the de-auth session variables and it immediately hung my system forcing a hard-shutdown.

I'm using the Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection on a dell inspiron 1525.

Also an issue with airmon-ng. refuses to work on wlan0 (looks for interface mon0 only). This isn't too big an issue though as I usually iwconfig to change the card mode.

[cyd (cyd)]

Hi there,

i got the exact same problem, when using aireplay, system freeze and have to power off (Tomboy Notes got corrupted on ext4 fs)

Hardware is an Asus EEEpc 1000HE (ath9k driver)

airmon-ng start wlan0 starts int. mon0, looks good on my system

[cyd (cyd)]

Forgot to mention it is on Jaunty 32Bits (all updates, and kernel rev -14 and -15 have the problem)

[cyd (cyd)]

The problem is not present on karmic alpha4, this one is working nicely

[Average_Joe++ (micahbl)]

I am using a MSI Wind U123 with Ubuntu Netbook Remix jaunty 32-bit and it completely freezes to the point that I have to do a hard shutdown as well... posted it on the aircrack-ng forum and they just suggested to install the compat-wireless...haven't had a chance to see if that works yet..

[Average_Joe++ (micahbl)]

Hey! I went to http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?board=4.0 and found some useful information.... It told me that Ubuntu has their own compat-wireless included so I tried this on my system (ath9x driver) and now it works fine!!! Here is the code..

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# For Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid users:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid

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# For Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty users:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

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[lipfi (info-lipfiland)]

had the same problem, at debian squeeze 2.6.37 with broadcom4313 - brcm80211 on an asus eee 1015pn. it is a dual boot box and i deactivated wlan card in win 7 by hitting the wlan-key (key 88), so it was deactivated in bios at restart. checked bios, rebooted, everything runs like a charm again :-)

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Marking this bug as confirmed because it affects multiple users.