Alfa Network AWUS036NHA – USB WiFi Adapter, 150 Mbps, 802.11b/g/n, RP-SMA, AR9271L Atheros Chipset

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Quantity, government, and military discounts are available. GSA (General Services Administration) compatible. Surprisingly, it was working last week and when i set it up that time, it was nothing extra i needed to do. It came up by itself.

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I’m new to penetration testing and have recently been taking online course, however I installed Kali Linux on windows 10 recently which all went fine. The issue i have is when I try using the the alpha AWUS036NHA wireless adapter . I works fine on the host machine however it isn’t passing through to kali linux. A lot of the times the adapter just cuts off when I start Kali and when I boot up Kali and then connect the adapter it dosent switch on as it should. I’ve tried your steps above however with no success. Also I’ve noticed that the usb icon at the bottom right of the screen is showing no activity i.e red or green blinking dots and it states ‘No USB Devices Attached’. I’ve tried the method above several times on different ports also with no success. I’ve ran the following commands on the Kali terminal Once I created a new blank filter, I just added the appropriate Vendor ID and Product ID and saved it. This adapter is only for 2.4ghz and it has a sma connector. This usb wifi card is compatible with 802.11g or 802.11n, mimo and supports data rate up to 150 mbps. Do this for each .pem) usually just 2 files just highlight them and copy from 1 folder to the other if you got lost remember that both the crda-1.1.3 folder and the wireless-regdb-2013.02.13 will both be inside the wifichanges folder located in you home root it dosn't get any easier than that After I had the device filter setup, I detached the device from my workstation and logged into Kali. As you can see, there are no wireless devices connected to my VM yet.

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The HA was typically giving a signal strength, on the Engenius AP, of around -78 to -82. As low as -90db.

Alfa Network AWUS036NHA – USB WiFi Adapter, 150 Mbps, 802.11b Alfa Network AWUS036NHA – USB WiFi Adapter, 150 Mbps, 802.11b

The signal strengths I see with the HA are typically not as strong as what I see with the H. However, this can be misleading since the driver that the manufacturer writes controls this value, and from working on the 8187l driver, I know that it tends to be a bit optimistic. So this in itself is not really too important. They both saw about the same networks. There was some variation at times, with the H tending to see a few more. Again, this fact alone is not that important however, but consumers tend to like devices that show lots of networks, even if they can’t connect to them J. From wireless-regdb-2013.02.13 folder Copy any .pem files you see to the crda pubkeys directory inside crda-1.1.3 folder For this question there is no exact answer. Wireless range is an imperfect science. The range you get with any adapter will vary markedly depending on the strength and quality of the wireless access point being used, as well as obstacles and interference in the area. Keep in mind that interference can often be invisible. Once I put the device properly in monitor mode, then I ran airodump! root@kali: ~# airodump-ng wlan0mon I then connected my device to my workstation, VirtualBox detected it, and then automatically passed on to the VM.The H was typically giving a signal strength, on the Engenius AP, of around -73 to -80. As low as -88db. With everything properly connected and configured, it was time to set up monitor mode. To do this, I started airmon-ng on the wlan0 device. root@kali: ~# airmon-ng start wlan0

Alfa AWUS036NHA Atheros AR9271 Wireless B/G/N USB Adapter Alfa AWUS036NHA Atheros AR9271 Wireless B/G/N USB Adapter

Since this has 800mW output, it will have the longest range and stronger signals than any other product with lesser power, right? Sometimes retailers have a tendency to promote a specific attribute of a product as if it is the only thing that matters. In fact, while higher output is a good thing, it is not the only thing that determines your range and signal strength. Now however the problem is that when I plug in the Alfa device my network connection from my other wifi ceases to work (Intel(R) Wireless-N 7260) (the connection bridged from my host). It disconnects in the host aswell. If I connect to a wifi (with 7260) in the host with kali and alfa running the alfa stops working in Kali... I want to have them both running.

This is a single band (2.4 GHz) 802.11n adapter with maximum transfer speeds of 150 megabits per second (mbps). This is for one brand new (in retail box) AWUS036NHA wireless adapter with USB cable 5 dBi gain antenna, and installation CD. Some ALFA models include a bonus mount accessory, this one does not. iwconfig wlan(x) txpower 30 - This is the command that sets txpower and 30 is the highest you'll get ifconfig wlan(x) up - This reinstates the connection of your adapter. So in this case for example I shall type in "ifconfig wlan1 up" to reinstate.