# Putting a secondary adapter into monitor mode using the network manager

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/putting-a-secondary-adapter-into-monitor-mode-using-the-network-manager/5887>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Tags:** support, wifi, network\
**Created:** [April 4, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/putting-a-secondary-adapter-into-monitor-mode-using-the-network-manager/5887 "2019-04-04T19:12:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![tacLog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tacLog](https://forums.balena.io/u/tacLog)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/putting-a-secondary-adapter-into-monitor-mode-using-the-network-manager/5887/27 "2019-07-08T05:20:39Z")

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Good luck!

I always used:  
`iwconfig`  
to check if I succeeded during my early tests.

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