Airodump-ng fixed channel problem

[lucid]

Hey guys, recently I bought an Alfa AWUS036H Wireless adapter for the purpose of cracking a neighbors network so that I may enjoy the pleasures of wifi. I ran into a problem however. From what I understand it's not uncommon. Once I went to run airodump-ng I noticed that in the upper right corner, instead of saying something like: WPA Handshake : ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f, it said mon0 fixed channel -1. So when I tried to proceed further it said that I am fixed on channel -1 but need to be on another channel, preventing the WPA handshake from happening. I researched the problem and it seems that only Ubuntu users have run into this. I am using Arch. Ubuntu users have fixed this problem in the past with a patch. However there was a way to do so without doing that. This script:

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#!/bin/bash
#change this to the interface you wish to change
IFACE="wlan0"

ifconfig $IFACE down
iwconfig $IFACE mode managed
ifconfig $IFACE up
iwconfig $IFACE channel $@
ifconfig $IFACE down
iwconfig $IFACE mode monitor
ifconfig $IFACE up

iwconfig $IFACE


Is supposed to fix the fixed channel problem. Now there's a new problem. Whenever I run this script it completely brings the interface down. So I can't use the Alfa wireless at all. And that's where I get stuck.
 

[techb]

Have you tried doing it manually?

[proxx]

You should try the compat drivers which are in AUR.