Hello everyone,
Over the last few days I have been trying to figure out why my TP-Link WN722N wireless adapter will not connect to any WiFi access points while on Kali Linux. I apologize if I miss including any information but I will try to list as much as I can. I am currently running Kali Linux rolling 2016.1 which was installed on a partitioned hard drive that I duel boot with windows. I have an internal WiFi card that can connect to my APs but the TPLink will not. It shows up in Network Settings but after I type in the password of my AP and hit connect; it closes the screen and does not connect. I have checked ifconfig and I do not notice anything out of the ordinary when compared to my internal card. I have tried to disable the internal card but when I do, it disables the TP-Link usb adapter as well. When I run dmesg, one of the lines says that wlan1: link is not ready. The only red text that I see in dmesg is "phy: Failed to wakeup in 500us" I have removed some personal numbers in the code and replaced them with #'s.
ifconfig:
Code:
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether (######) txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet (######) netmask (######)
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 26 bytes 1538 (1.5 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 26 bytes 1538 (1.5 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet (######) netmask (######) broadcast (######)
inet6 (###########) prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether (#########) txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 18305 bytes 18894576 (18.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 12156 bytes 1895931 (1.8 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether (######) txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
iwconfig
Code:
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"####"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: ######
Bit Rate=65 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:16 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
If this is not enough to help with the issue let me know and I will add more. I tried to put it in monitor mode and it seemed to work but as soon as I do that, Kali stops recognizing it all together. Another thing not sure if this is anything but on my laptop the wifi button with flash every 5 seconds or so. Normally in Windows it stays a solid blue when on and red when off. I have restarted network services multiple times, I have updated, upgraded and dist-upgraded Kali as well and I have searched all over for an answer but I cannot find a single thing. Thank you for your time and I hope someone will be able to shed some light on this issue.