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Monitor mode on Nintendo Switch with Ubuntu + Nexmon

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Published: 09/06/2026 (09/06/2026, 18:02:29 UTC)
Source: Reddit Cybersecurity

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Monitor mode on Nintendo Switch with Ubuntu + Nexmon Source: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon

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r/cybersecurity·posted by u/Dry-Management-9910
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Nintendo switch has the WIFI adapter BCM4356 which can be patched with nexmon (https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon) that should allow to use it in monitor mode.

I was able to patch the firmware and driver with nexmon and now it is possible to use the wireless in monitor mode.

Well, at least that is what looks like.it is possible to put the WiFi in Monitor mode or even create an additional interface in monitor mode. But when using airodump-ng or tcpdump or wireshark. It does now show any BSSID. It is almost like the WiFi adapter can't see any network, completely empty, iw dev scan works fine but no dumps.

I tried preload libnexmon with LD\_PRELOAD, I tried everything. This works fine in raspberry that has the same WiFi card, but no success with Nintendo Switch.

Anyone has any idea? Would be very cool to be able to do that with a Nintendo Switch.

The follow commands works fine:

iw phy \`iw dev wlp1s0 info | gawk '/wiphy/ {printf "phy" $2}'\` interface add mon0 type monitor

Or even

ip link set wlp1s0 down

iw dev wlan0 set type monitor

ip link set wlp1s0 up

Even

airmon-ng start wlp1s0

It says unknown error 524 but it does create the extra monitoring interface

But airodump-ng does not show any network

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Newsworthiness Assessment
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Has External Source
true
Trusted Domain
false

Threat ID: 6a9de408acd9273b495af047

Added to database: 09/06/2026, 22:07:04 UTC

Last updated: 09/07/2026, 02:07:48 UTC

Views: 8

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