cant see available wifi networks with ra 3070 chipset wifi usb adapter

Hello I am running kali2.0 on virtualbox
I have installed ra3070 wireless adapter through usb. Device can be seen and listed in usb devices.
I installed the driver throguth apt-get install firmware-ralink

I tried multiple solutions including manually compiling the drivers however I still cant see the available networks. I also tried increasing tx pwer to 30dBm but no change.
Any help is appreciated. I want to use the adapter for wifi tools. I can put it in monitor mode with airmon-ng and start monitoring but no ssids are displayed. Help pls

COmmand outputs are as below:

root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 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 3070
[ 6670.612189] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=3070
[ 6671.499622] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 3070, rev 0201 d


root@kali:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.


wlan0 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

root@kali:~# iw dev
phy#1
Interface wlan0
ifindex 3
wdev 0x100000001
addr ca:c4:61:ea:44:de
type managed
txpower 20.00 dBm
root@kali:~#



oot@kali:~# airmon-ng start wlan0


Found 2 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to run 'airmon-ng check kill'


PID Name
506 NetworkManager
651 wpa_supplicant


PHY Interface Driver Chipset


phy1 wlan0 rt2800usb Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070




(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy1]wlan0 on [phy1]wlan0mon)
(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy1]wlan0)

Well, I've always found wireless work to be problematic within a VM. But if you can get the card into monitor mode, airodump-ng should work. Do you get any output when running airodump-ng? Will the card do packet injection?

If you've compiled drivers and installed them,I would recommend to rebuild the VM, you most likely downgraded your drivers which led to issues. Usually, the only thing you have to do after a firmware install is to reboot the system.

Just FYI, Kali 2.0 is not supported anymore (it hasn't been supported in years), download the VM of the current version of Kali and try again (with just the firmware this time)

The Kali im using is 4.15.0 kernel which is 2018 disb. I was wrong about 2.0 sorry about that.
Monitoring mode works and I found a workaround to do injection make it work, here is how.
First I kill associated processes with ra3070 using airmon-ng check kill then start the card in monitor mode and start airodump-ng. No nw pops up. Afterwards i re-plug the usb adapter and repeat this process. IT starts to work then. Kinda weird but works :)

root@kali:~# airmon-ng --verbose


No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Kali
Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release: kali-rolling
Codename: kali-rolling


Linux kali 4.15.0-kali2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1kali1 (2018-03-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Detected VM using lspci
This appears to be a VirtualBox Virtual Machine
If your system supports VT-d, it may be possible to use PCI devices
If your system does not support VT-d, you can only use USB wifi cards


K indicates driver is from 4.15.0-kali2-amd64
V indicates driver comes directly from the vendor, almost certainly a bad thing
S indicates driver comes from the staging tree, these drivers are meant for reference not actual use, BEWARE
? indicates we do not know where the driver comes from... report this




X[PHY]Interface Driver[Stack]-FirmwareRev Chipset Extended Info


K[phy0]wlan0 rt2800usb[mac80211]-0.36 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070