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Wifite

Channel locked error

W Wireless Medium

🔴 Error Message

Cannot lock adapter to specific channel

📖 What This Means

Adapter driver issue with channel control.

🔧 Step-by-Step Fix

  1. Kill interfering: airmon-ng check kill
  2. Set manually: iwconfig wlan0mon channel 6
  3. Try different adapter

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