Alfa AWUS036ACH dead in 2024.2 ?

[vom]

Hello all,

I have a AWUS036ACH - and as of 2 weeks ago (I was running some 2023.X at that time) it was working fine. I could monitor, inject, you name it.

I decided to reinstall with 2024.2 today, and as usual installed the realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms package. The modules built, and after connecting the adapter I got my interface.

airmon-ng start seemed to work, the interface went to monitor mode.

However after this - packet counters via ifconfig weren't incrementing at all, wifite sees nothing, tcpdump sees nothing. As I said this was working just 2 weeks ago under whatever 2023 version I had on this machine.

I also tried manually setting monitor mode via 'iw' command (but I'm pretty sure this is the same thing airmon-ng is doing anyway...)

I tried with and without changing the MAC. No matter what, this adapter is dead silent in 2024.2.

Anyone know if this is a known issue or seeing the same behavior ?

Thanks.

[vom]

After some better googling - it looks like this is a known issue with the latest versions of this driver. There are a handful of forks of this driver, but what I did was to use the aircrack-ng github repo. The workaround I used is from here:

https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl88...ent-2201657746

So the commit to get is 63cf0b4:

git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au
cd rtl8812au/
git reset --hard 63cf0b4
make dkms_install

I did that and now I have monitor+inject (and from spoofed MAC) working again as expected.

[seen_bawl]

here is the fix
www.youtube.com /watch?v=Yr-8RmoNi70&t=69s
remove the space

[Qtecman]

Just follow these steps and it will work perfectly! 1. sudo git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au 2. ls -l (the "rtl8812au" folder should be there) 3. cd rtl8812au 4. sudo git checkout 63cf0b4 5. sudo git status 6. sudo make 7. sudo make install 8. sudo reboot Enjoy!