Kali detects USB wireless adapter, but no wireless networks shown

[reifi]

Hi, I just got the ALFA AWUS036NEH usb wireless adapter with the drivers installed on a windows 8.1 host and I'm running kali on virtualbox. I have the virtualbox extensions and when I'm in kali, it detects the usb wireless adapter. It shows up in iwconfig and ifconfig as wlan0 but on the network manager gui, there is no wireless networks shown.

lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

airmon-ng:
phy0 wlan0 rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070

Edit: I also have no APs when i do airodump-ng, tested on windows 8.1 and linux mint (the processes are killed and it is in monitor mode).

Someone rescue me
Been trying to get a wireless adapter working for a few weeks

[devxx]

having same problem

ALFA AWUS036NEH works fine on a laptop
problem with a kali 2 on WMware

CH  9 ][ Elapsed: 48 s ][ 2015-08-15 21:39                                         
                                                                                      
 BSSID              PWR  Beacons    #Data, #/s  CH  MB   ENC  CIPHER AUTH ESSID
                                                                                      
                                                                                      
 BSSID              STATION            PWR   Rate    Lost    Frames  Probe

plus after starting network-manager - there are no wifi networks ;-/

[reifi]

lol I got mine to work finally, make sure your vmware detects your wireless adapter

Hey, try setting up the monitor mode manually, well that's what I did (remember to kill the processes too):
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up

then just airodump-ng wlan0
I hope you get it working, been trying to get this wireless stuff working for almost 3 weeks

Edit: Nvm, couldn't get it to work again for some reason keep getting:
[ 223.153060] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x0500 with error -110

[ilakkali]

Hi have the same problem with an Alfa AWUS036NH usb device. It works randomly but after some time it just stops working and dmesg gives me the following message:

[ 314.466537] device wlan0mon entered promiscuous mode
[ 1419.167725] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x0438 with error -110
[ 1419.311242] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x0438 with error -110
[ 1419.311250] ieee80211 phy0: rt2800usb_watchdog: Warning - TX HW queue 1 timed out, invoke forced kick
[ 1419.455306] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x0408 with error -110
[ 1419.599228] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x0408 with error -110

[eastman18]

Hi have the same problem with an Alfa AWUS036NH usb device. It works randomly but after some time it just stops working and dmesg gives me the following message:

[ 314.466537] device wlan0mon entered promiscuous mode
[ 1419.167725] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x0438 with error -110
[ 1419.311242] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x0438 with error -110
[ 1419.311250] ieee80211 phy0: rt2800usb_watchdog: Warning - TX HW queue 1 timed out, invoke forced kick
[ 1419.455306] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x0408 with error -110
[ 1419.599228] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x0408 with error -110

Make sure u added ur usb device correctly or try using virtualbox as its much better than vmware... Install Ralink drivers for ubuntu or debian it might help .

[Help]

aircrack-ng check kill
airmon-ng check kill
airmon-ng start wlan0

please run in that order and should fix your problems

[diverguy]

Has anyone found a solution to this? I'm having the same issue with the same card on Kali 2.0 and Kali 1.1.0a both with VirtualBox.

[megacoldman]

The problem seems to be with kernel 4. I had the same problem on that version and couldn't fix it.
I downgraded kali to a 3.x kernel and everything works fine.
Same issue with other linux distros using kernel 4 such as ubuntu or whatever.

[Ubiquitous]

Bumping a quite old post, but I am having the exact same problem as the people above, with the exact same setup, error messages, environment and hardware. Been trying for 12 straight hours to get this thing to keep monitoring, if it ever starts, which is not too often.

The last suggestion here, to downgrade to a 3.x kernel seems interesting. Is it possible to compile a kernel from linux.org, or does that miss a lot of modules needed by other software included in Kali?

[freakynewfie]

airmon-ng check kill
airmon-ng start wlan0
this seems to help thanks alot

[scarredgenius]

is there a solution to this i have been facing the same problem , help appreciated

[_defalt]

is there a solution to this i have been facing the same problem , help appreciated

What exactly is your problem?

[CrAsHOvERrIdE34]

I am having the same problem as everyone else. I have an ALFA AWUS036NEH USB WiFi Adapter. I have installed the drivers. I am running Kali in Virtual Box. I can see my USB Wireless Adapter RaLink in Kali Linux. When I run iwconfig wlan0 it is in monitor mode as I have ran the commands to put this in monitor mode. Also, I ran the macchanger -r wlan0 command to randomly change my MAC address also. I have also did the airmon-ng check kill which killed the dhclient process and wpa_supplicant

The commands I ran in order
ifconfig wlan0 down
macchanger -r wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 up

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up

I am now in monitor mode

airmon-ng check kill
airmon-ng start wlan0

Then I run airodump-ng wlan0

I get nothing and I let it run for several hours. Also, if I run just the CD software that came with my USB WiFi adapter I can see wireless access points using it from my windows 7 machine however I can see the device on my Kali Virtual Box machine, I can see if there when I do an airmon-ng wlan0 showing as a phy0 wlan0 rt2800usb Ralink Technology. However when I run the airodump-ng wlan0 I get no data of wireless access points at all.

Can someone help?

[mmusket33]

First we are assuming you are running kali rolling

When you ran airmon-ng start wlan0 your wlan0 disappears and is replaced by wlan0mon

Note After you run airmon-ng start wlan0 type airmon-ng [Enter] to get current designations

Type airodump-ng wlan0mon and you should see some stations however all these macchanging routines for wlan0 will have to be again done for wlan0mon

Furthermore airmon-ng check kill also kills NetworkManager.


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