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Can't configure network interfaces to capture wireless radio packets

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I'm trying to capture wifi radio packets with Wireshark, but I can't seem to configure the network interfaces correctly. While working on this I tried Kismet and that worked. After running Kismet I can then can capture successfully with Wireshark.

I compared the network interface configuration and network related services (systemctl | grep network) and found that the Kismet-generated configuration and my manually generated configuration are identical.

So why doesn't my configuration work while Kismet does? What am I missing?

Here are the commands I use to configure the network interface (sudo is omitted for clarity):

systemctl stop NetworkManager
systemctl disable NetworkManager
iw phy phy0 interface add wlp0s20f3mon type monitor
ip link set wlp0s20f3mon promisc on
ip link set wlp0s20f3mon up
iw dev wlp0s20f3mon set freq 2427

Here is the iwconfig and ifconfig output after my manual configuration and Kismet configuration (they are the same):

wlp0s20f3  IEEE 802.11  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=-2147483648 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          
wlp0s20f3mon  IEEE 802.11  Mode:Monitor  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Tx-Power=-2147483648 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 1242  bytes 106449 (106.4 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1242  bytes 106449 (106.4 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp0s20f3mon: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        unspec E0-D0-45-3E-18-90-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  txqueuelen 1000  (UNSPEC)
        RX packets 2  bytes 140 (140.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 2  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Here is the ouput of systemctl | grep etwork:
  networkd-dispatcher.service                                                            loaded active     running   Dispatcher daemon for systemd-networkd                                       
  systemd-resolved.service                                                               loaded active     running   Network Name Resolution                                                      
  systemd-timesyncd.service                                                              loaded active     running   Network Time Synchronization                                                 
  network-online.target                                                                  loaded active     active    Network is Online                                                            
  network.target                                                                         loaded active     active    Network                                                                      
  nss-lookup.target                                                                      loaded active     active    Host and Network Name Lookups       

Here is my system info:

System:    Kernel: 5.14.0-1054-oem x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Gnome 3.36.9 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM3 3.36.3 
           Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21CBCTO1WW v: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 21CBCTO1WW serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: N3AET69W (1.34 ) date: 12/05/2022 
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