Jan 9, 2017 - Older kernels can sometimes be made to work, check out resources available here While this driver natively supports monitor mode, it requires. Interface Chipset Driver wlan0 Broadcom wl - [phy0]mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device (monitor mode enabled on. Linux Wireless. Broadcom brcmfmac driver. Support for both 32 and 64 bit Linux kernels. Monitor mode. Fullmac driver specifics.
Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History Broadcom has a noted history with its support for Wi-Fi devices regarding GNU/Linux. For a good portion of its initial history, Broadcom devices were either entirely unsupported or required the user to tinker with the firmware. The limited set of wireless devices that were supported were done so by a reverse-engineered driver.