wlanhelper reports success on channel change but does not change channel

[lennartkoopmann]

First of all, thank you for all the work on npcap! I'm using it to make nzyme work on Windows.

The wlanhelper utility does not throw any errors but also does not seem to actually perform the task:

PS C:\Users\lenna\workspace\nzyme> wlanhelper 422E8224-31DB-45E9-980E-A690DAA84B23 mode
monitor
PS C:\Users\lenna\workspace\nzyme> wlanhelper 422E8224-31DB-45E9-980E-A690DAA84B23 channel
1
PS C:\Users\lenna\workspace\nzyme> wlanhelper 422E8224-31DB-45E9-980E-A690DAA84B23 channel 11
Success
PS C:\Users\lenna\workspace\nzyme> wlanhelper 422E8224-31DB-45E9-980E-A690DAA84B23 channel
1

To make sure, I've tried this with normal privileges as well as Administrator privileges. Same result.

Here are the WiFi adapters that I tested (they all support monitor mode really well on Linux) and they all show the exact same behavior on two Windows machines:

• ALFA AWUS036NH
• Panda PAU05
• Panda PAU07

Windows version: 10 (Build 19043)
npcap version: 1.50

[acautomacaoecontrole]

Hi, lennartkoopmann

Have you had any progress?

I am experiencing the same problem that has happen "all of a sudden", I mean, wlanhelper stopped changing the channel for a reason I don't know why.