rt2800usb

**gorbedani** · 2017-09-12

Hy!
I have an Alfa awus051nh (v2) and using Kali 2017.1 installed
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ALFA_Network_AWUS051NH_v2

Code:

lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 148f:3572 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT3572 Wireless Adapter

The FIRST bad sign is that the device is too HOT !!!

The SECOND bad sign is that the MAC address isnt equal to the manufacturer MAC address.
(manufacturer mac address : 00:C0:CA:xx:xx:xx)

Code:

ifconfig
        wlan1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 12:0f:24:db:8a:ad  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

SO, the problem is: i cant use this wifi dongle. I cant see and cant connect to any AP.
With Aircrack-ng:

1, Monitor mode IS working. (airmon-ng check kill does not matter, the result is the same with/without it)

Code:

PHY	Interface	Driver		Chipset

phy0	wlan0		ath10k_pci	Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
phy3	wlan1		rt2800usb	Ralink Technology, Corp. RT3572

		(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy3]wlan1 on [phy3]wlan1mon)
		(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy3]wlan1)

2, Pocket Injection test IS NOT working.

Code:

aireplay-ng -9 wlan1mon
19:20:27  Trying broadcast probe requests...
19:20:29  No Answer...
19:20:29  Found 0 APs

3, airodump-ng IS working but its useless ( internal wifi card with network manager list 6 ap)

Code:

 CH  1 ][ Elapsed: 3 mins ][ 2017-09-11 19:38                                         
                                                                                                                                                                       
 BSSID              PWR  Beacons    #Data, #/s  CH  MB   ENC  CIPHER AUTH ESSID
                                                                                                                                                                       
 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  -79      133       28    0   6  54e. WPA2 CCMP   PSK  myEssid                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                       
 BSSID              STATION            PWR   Rate    Lost    Frames  Probe                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                       
 (not associated)   cc:cc:cc:cc:cc:cc  -66    0 - 1     70        2                                                                                                     
 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa  -76    0 - 1     10       26

4, handshake: obviously cant capture

I dont understand this because i tried the wifi adapter on Ubuntu 16.04 and its work fine.
Thanks for your help!

some terminal command:

Code:

rfkill list
10: phy4: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Code:

dmesg | grep rt2800
[  727.441592] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[  727.450284] rt2800usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rt2870.bin
[ 1933.057133] rt2800usb 1-5:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rt2870.bin
[ 7144.699328] rt2800usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rt2870.bin
[15643.966709] rt2800usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rt2870.bin

Code:

iwconfig
wlan1     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short  long limit:2   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

later :

Code:

dmesg
[18495.478046] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
[18496.574912] ieee80211 phy4: rt2800usb_fill_rxdone: Error - Bad frame size 8208, forcing to 0
[18496.574921] ieee80211 phy4: rt2x00lib_rxdone: Error - Wrong frame size 0 max 3840
[18811.485189] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready

**ptpi** · 2017-09-19

I'd be lookiing at what driver Ubuntu is using and trying to get that installed.
Is Kali using rt3572sta or the rt2800? Or something else?

**gorbedani** · 2017-09-19

rt2800usb
But i think the problem source is the linux kernel. I tried with Parrot Os and Ubuntu 17, and the driver also failed. All of this os uses linux kernel 4.10 and above

**grid** · 2017-09-19

For what it's worth, I updated Kali yesterday, and was able to do monitor mode & packet injection with my AWUS051NH v.2. However, when using Kismet, it doesn't seem to hop on 5 ghz channels...just 2.4

Seems like I saw something similar to this posted at bugs.kali.org not long ago regarding the 4.12 kernel. I'm still searching there

**wander** · 2017-09-20

I've had very similar issues with my Panda Wireless PAU09. Upgraded Kali and Virtual box. Tried all sorts of fixes.

Common issues:

1. Device gets hot
2. wlan0 shows up, no ip address assigned to it

Wireless networks occasionally show up, but I am unable to connect to any of them.

Code:

# dmesg | tail
[   12.966195] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   13.895104] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error -
Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x7010 with error -110
[   18.937481] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   19.127533] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   19.429739] fuse init (API version 7.26)
[  353.939615] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[  674.906813] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[  731.321502] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[  757.037451] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[  764.294992] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Code:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:5572 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5572
Wireless Adapter

**Dudley** · 2017-09-22

Looks like I have the same issue with my Panda PAU09:

root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:5572 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5572 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
root@kali:~# dmesg |grep rt2
[ 5.860724] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 5592, rev 0222 detected
[ 6.391182] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 000f detected
[ 6.423982] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[ 6.437618] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
[ 6.442374] rt2800usb 1-1:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rt2870.bin
[ 6.442378] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.36
[ 428.098309] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x101c with error -110
[ 428.212376] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x101c with error -110
root@kali:~# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 08:00:27:c1:f6:66 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 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 11511 bytes 996090 (972.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11511 bytes 996090 (972.7 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether b2:de:9c:88:be:f7 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

root@kali:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID

ff/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short long limit:2 RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Encryption key

ff
Power Management

ff

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

root@kali:~# modinfo rt2800usb |grep 5572
alias: usb:v148Fp5572d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*

Some additional information:
I'm running Kali in Virtualbox using a bridged adapter:
Attachment 2783

When checking the network settings with the machine powered off I actually selected a different name - the USB card:
network before startup.JPG

Not sure if that's a problem or not.

I checked the thread in the Ubuntu forums at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1420984 but when I blacklist as described the device doesn't show up as wlan0 anymore.

Any help or pointers appreciated!

PS: If people feel I hijacked this thread, feel free to tell me to open a new one.

**wander** · 2017-09-23

its a linux firware issue.
The devs are aware and working on fix.

According to this thread in regards to another USB adapter
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...as-broken-Wifi

Panda support responded with this message when I contacted them:

There are a lot of problems with different WiFi adapters on Kali.
Kali is a rolling release and it will pick up all the changes from the
kernel. Some of the changes in the kernel will screw up some
WiFi adapter to operate correctly in Kali. Then Kali need to find and
fix the problem.

As of today. the monitor and packet injection feature is not suppored
by Kernel and Kali developers apply their own patch on the kernel
used in Kali. It will take times for Kali developers to fix the problems
created by the updates from the kernel development.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

**MrsRobot** · 2017-12-06

Originally Posted by gorbedani

rt2800usb
But i think the problem source is the linux kernel. I tried with Parrot Os and Ubuntu 17, and the driver also failed. All of this os uses linux kernel 4.10 and above

hi! Have you solved this problem?
I have everything the same with Kali 2017.2 (((

**gorbedani** · 2017-12-06

No, I didnt find anything. I bought a tl-wn722n v1, but its not good for 5ghz.

**MrsRobot** · 2017-12-07

Hi, bro! checked today in kali 2016.1 - works fine and does not get warm!
Apparently it's in the Linux kernel .. with 2017.1-3 kali has not figured it out yet

**grid** · 2017-12-08

Monitor mode & packet injection are working fine on my Alfa AWUS051NH v.2 with the current kernel (4.14)

**MrsRobot** · 2017-12-11

Alfa awus051nh (v2) works excellent using 2017.3 Kali

**wander** · 2017-12-20

Well, my wireless adapter was working last week. Now no dice, assuming some update is causing an issue again.

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