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Hello there! This is my first post here so hopefully I'm not writing in the wrong thread. I will apologize if that happens. I have finally got into Kali Linux, but unfortunately I have found so many problems that I got desperate.
I have bought a Tenda UH150 (uses Ralink RT3070), so that I would be able to get into Kali's internet tools and so on. I've installed it on a second partition (I'm dual booting it with Windows 8.1) and everything went perfect, except that I couldn't connect on the internet using wlan0 connection type. It was asking me to enter the "ESSID" and the password so that I could connect, but all my tries were in vain, so I just moved on by using the eth0 connection type. Surprinsingly, when I entered the Kali's menu, the Wi-Fi was working without any problems, but the ethernet was disabled (Device not managed). I have found a fast sollution to fix it, and when I finally fix the ethernet problem, after I restarted the network manager, the Wireless Network stopped working having the following error: "Device not ready". I have tried to revert the setting, but since then I couldn't have done anything.
I just can't understand why is this happening and why enabling the ethernet connection kills the wireless one. I'm a super newbie at Kali Linux, so hopefully there will be someone to help me solve all of this. I've been searching for other fixes for hours, but still no success. If there's necessary to add more information, I'd gladly do it so. Thank you so much for reading.
Bump! I've got new info. It seems like after unplugging and pluging back the wireless adapter, the wireless connection works too! But there's a huge problem. Whenever I shut down the connection, reboot the system or try to put the wlan0 into monitor mode, the wireless adapter simply turns off and I get again the "Device not ready" message. And again, I got to plug again the wireless adapter in order to see the Wireless connection. It seems like I can't do anything on Kali if the adapter behaves like that. Does anyone know a good sollution for this? Thanks.
Really? Is there absolutely nobody who could help me ? I don't know what to do at this point, and I also don't know what other details I am supposed to give you...
Here are some commands which may be useful for more information:
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Lynx Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Lynx Point SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 11c0 (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0e0b (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0c)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 03)[/QUOTE]
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:d0:2b:9c:c4:32
inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::76d0:2bff:fe9c:c432/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2554 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2654040 (2.5 MiB) TX bytes:296581 (289.6 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4448 (4.3 KiB) TX bytes:4448 (4.3 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:3a:35:cb:f5:f8
inet6 addr: fe80::ca3a:35ff:fecb:f5f8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1063 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:349960 (341.7 KiB) TX bytes:1820 (1.7 KiB)
lshw -C network: *-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@3:5
logical name: wlan0
serial: c8:3a:35:cb:f5:f8
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.18.0-kali3-amd64 firmware=0.29 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
If there are any commands that I should post here, please tell me. Hopefully someone will be able to help me through this problem. I've installed Kali LInux over 10 times, hoping this would make the things work. But as I said, things like setting the wlan0 on monitor mode or rebooting the computer simply disables my wireless connection. If I go to the network manager, at the wireless connection it will show me "Device not ready" and the only way to enable it again is to unplug the wireless adapter and plug it back in (The power led goes off after I get the "Device not ready" thing). Thank you for reading.