ALFA AWUS036ACH not finding any networks

[arva]

Hi, I just got the ALFA AWUS036ACH usb wireless adapter with the drivers installed on my Kali box. It shows up in iwconfig and ifconfig as wlan0 but on the network manager gui, there is no wireless networks shown.

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"MFD5GHz"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.745 GHz Access Point: 20:C0:47:D9:57:52
Bit Rate=390 Mb/s Tx-Power=22 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=52/70 Signal level=-58 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:10 Missed beacon:0

wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=18 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 is my wireless adapter.

Any help on actually being able to find networks with my adapter? I have tried searching before and let it run for a while and it does not find anything despite there being around 20-30 near me.

Thanks

[grid]

First thing I'd check is the output of dmesg, and journalctl...see if there are any errors there involving your card.

Will the card go into monitor mode & do packet injection?

[hightech316]

My 2nd day with AWUS036ACH, I've had issues. Here is what I've done to fix " Not seeing networks" .

First off , I grabbed drivers from github, https://github.com/kimocoder/rtl8812au . Not by " apt install realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms " . I had issues with whatever driver is in Kali repo :( .

There is a great post already within these forums found here https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?36814-How-to-install-AWUS036ACH-Drivers-and-getting-it-running&highlight=AWUS036ACH . Found within that thread , Post #23 .

git clone https://github.com/kimocoder/rtl8812au
cd rtl8812au
make && make install

ip link set wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ip link set wlan0 up

airodump-ng -i wlan0

Those commands got me up and going , Then turned last bit into a small bash script ( You might be at wlan0 ) .

ip link set wlan1 down
iwconfig wlan1 mode monitor
ip link set wlan1 up
iwconfig wlan1 txpower 40
iwconfig | grep wlan1

Now airodump is listing networks, and ones I have never seen!

What does dmesg have to say ?

dmesg | grep -i rtl

[bchuck]

My 2nd day with AWUS036ACH, I've had issues. Here is what I've done to fix " Not seeing networks" .

First off , I grabbed drivers from github, https://github.com/kimocoder/rtl8812au . Not by " apt install realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms " . I had issues with whatever driver is in Kali repo :( .

There is a great post already within these forums found here https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?36814-How-to-install-AWUS036ACH-Drivers-and-getting-it-running&highlight=AWUS036ACH . Found within that thread , Post #23 .


Those commands got me up and going , Then turned last bit into a small bash script ( You might be at wlan0 ) .


Now airodump is listing networks, and ones I have never seen!

What does dmesg have to say ?



So I have done everything above and here is my dmesg..
[ 899.834927] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1051.641889] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 1053.441926] device wlan0 left promiscuous mode
[ 1214.888125] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1529.894390] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1844.968417] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2151.956621] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2232.079380] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2240.385531] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 2344.516655] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2381.529719] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2477.936556] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
root@kali:~# dmesg |grep -i rtl
[ 443.040153] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl88xxau


Any help?