Fern freezes after selecting Wifi card

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Opening Fern Cracker
2. Clicking Refresh
3. Selecting "wlan0"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
the next step (scanning wi-fi) instead the system/laptop freeze.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.6

Please provide any additional information below.
my WIFI card is Broadcom which might not support injection

Original issue reported on code.google.com by george....@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2012 at 7:04

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Depending on your operating system, it sometimes take a while to place the card 
into monitor mode, wait for the monitor setting process to complete, when done 
the Interface will display a message that the card in now monitor mode 
activated.

Original comment by saviob...@rocketmail.com on 24 Sep 2012 at 11:32

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I got exactly the same problem. I know the steps may take a while, but several 
minutes totally frozen with no disk activity? The famous "capslock led test" 
also failed (even the capslock led is frozen).

Original comment by allanco...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2012 at 3:25

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I don't know why or how, in the universe of the possibilities, I have found the 
solution:

* Run this: airmon-ng start wlan0
* Put the wireless switch off
* Select the wlan0 as interface in Fern
* Put the wireless switch on
* Wait a few seconds
* Start scanning

I hope this may help.

Original comment by allanco...@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2012 at 4:37

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Thanks ;)

Original comment by savioboy...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2012 at 9:42

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Still freezes for me once I put the wireless switch back on :(

Original comment by stephen....@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2013 at 4:00

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