Coconut is loading system drivers and trying to bring radios up, crashing system

[maXREZ]

My coconut used to work fine with kismet. everything was set up. now, plugging in the coconut totally breaks my system (or at least kills my network connection). I think the problem is it is trying to bring up the network interfaces instead of leaving them alone to be handled by the coconut driver. how can i fix this? Do I have to like, blacklist the driver somehow?

The official docs say:

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When plugged into a Linux or Windows based host, the operating system may load the default drivers for the network interfaces inside the WiFi Coconut, which are based on the rt2800usb device.

But it doesn't explain how to fix it properly.

 

Here's some logs that might show what is happening.

2023-07-25T17:04:17.916937-07:00 kbox kernel: [106369.064188] ieee80211 phy120: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
2023-07-25T17:04:17.916947-07:00 kbox kernel: [106369.064198] ieee80211 phy120: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.36
2023-07-25T17:04:18.080729-07:00 kbox kernel: [106369.226357] usb 1-5.2.3: new high-speed USB device number 66 using xhci_hcd
2023-07-25T17:04:18.197096-07:00 kbox charon: 09[KNL] interface wlan2 activated
2023-07-25T17:04:18.235709-07:00 kbox charon: 10[KNL] interface wlan2 deactivated
2023-07-25T17:04:18.236188-07:00 kbox NetworkManager[48142]: <info>  [1690329858.2359] device (wlan2): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to D2:DC:16:xx:xx:xx (scanning)
2023-07-25T17:04:18.522231-07:00 kbox charon: 16[KNL] interface wlan2 activated
2023-07-25T17:04:18.540121-07:00 kbox NetworkManager[48142]: <info>  [1690329858.5400] device (wlan2): supplicant interface state: internal-starting -> disconnected
2023-07-25T17:04:18.540262-07:00 kbox NetworkManager[48142]: <info>  [1690329858.5400] device (wlan2): state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'supplicant-available', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396867-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.543232] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396904-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.543406] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396908-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.543591] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396910-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.543758] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396912-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.543942] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396913-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.543966] usb 1-5.2-port3: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396916-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.544100] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot disable (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396917-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.544684] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396919-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.544752] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396944-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.544923] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396947-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.545016] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396949-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.545145] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot reset (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396950-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.545152] usb 1-5.2-port3: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396952-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.545282] usb 1-5.2-port3: cannot disable (err = -71)
2023-07-25T17:04:19.396954-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.545395] usb 1-5.2-port3: attempt power cycle
2023-07-25T17:04:19.404711-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.551256] ieee80211 phy120: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x1004 with error -71
2023-07-25T17:04:19.408761-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.556319] usb 1-5.2: USB disconnect, device number 63
2023-07-25T17:04:19.592823-07:00 kbox ModemManager[39771]: <info>  [base-manager] couldn't check support for device '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5.2/1-5.2.1': not supported by any plugin
2023-07-25T17:04:19.712838-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.858836] usb 1-5.2.1: USB disconnect, device number 64
2023-07-25T17:04:19.745727-07:00 kbox charon: 08[KNL] interface wlan1 deactivated
2023-07-25T17:04:19.745857-07:00 kbox charon: 16[KNL] interface wlan1 deleted
2023-07-25T17:04:19.746087-07:00 kbox NetworkManager[48142]: <info>  [1690329859.7457] device (wlan1): state change: disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'removed', sys-iface-state: 'removed')
2023-07-25T17:04:19.770136-07:00 kbox wpa_supplicant[744]: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
2023-07-25T17:04:19.776477-07:00 kbox NetworkManager[48142]: <info>  [1690329859.7762] radio killswitch /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5.2/1-5.2.1/1-5.2.1:1.0/ieee80211/phy119/rfkill120 disappeared
2023-07-25T17:04:19.800768-07:00 kbox kernel: [106370.948060] usb 1-5.2.2: USB disconnect, device number 65
2023-07-25T17:04:19.809545-07:00 kbox wpa_supplicant[744]: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
2023-07-25T17:04:19.809773-07:00 kbox wpa_supplicant[744]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan1 disabled_11b_rates=0
2023-07-25T17:04:19.849464-07:00 kbox charon: 06[KNL] interface wlan2 deactivated
2023-07-25T17:04:19.849891-07:00 kbox charon: 05[KNL] interface wlan2 deleted
2023-07-25T17:04:19.852125-07:00 kbox NetworkManager[48142]: <info>  [1690329859.8508] device (wlan2): state change: disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'removed', sys-iface-state: 'removed')
2023-07-25T17:04:19.863904-07:00 kbox ModemManager[39771]: <info>  [base-manager] port wlan2 released by device '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5.2/1-5.2.2'
2023-07-25T17:04:19.864141-07:00 kbox ModemManager[39771]: <warn>  [plugin-manager] task 123,wlan2: failed: Operation was cancelled
2023-07-25T17:04:19.864251-07:00 kbox ModemManager[39771]: <info>  [base-manager] couldn't check support for device '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5.2/1-5.2.2': Operation was cancelled
2023-07-25T17:04:19.885998-07:00 kbox wpa_supplicant[744]: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
2023-07-25T17:04:19.892628-07:00 kbox NetworkManager[48142]: <info>  [1690329859.8924] radio killswitch /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5.2/1-5.2.2/1-5.2.2:1.0/ieee80211/phy120/rfkill121 disappeared
2023-07-25T17:04:19.917668-07:00 kbox wpa_supplicant[744]: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
2023-07-25T17:04:19.917919-07:00 kbox wpa_supplicant[744]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan2 disabled_11b_rates=0
2023-07-25T17:04:20.144985-07:00 kbox kernel: [106371.290574] usb 1-5.2: new high-speed USB device number 70 using xhci_hcd
2023-07-25T17:04:20.244804-07:00 kbox kernel: [106371.391204] usb 1-5.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1a40, idProduct=0101, bcdDevice= 1.11
2023-07-25T17:04:20.244838-07:00 kbox kernel: [106371.391225] usb 1-5.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
2023-07-25T17:04:20.244842-07:00 kbox kernel: [106371.391232] usb 1-5.2: Product: USB 2.0 Hub
2023-07-25T17:04:20.244844-07:00 kbox kernel: [106371.393454] hub 1-5.2:1.0: USB hub found
2023-07-25T17:04:20.244846-07:00 kbox kernel: [106371.393528] hub 1-5.2:1.0: 4 ports detected