Connection Constantly Cutting Out, Only On My Machine
I have an HDD install of Kali, 64 bit, running GNOME. Nothing unusual with the build, straight out of the box so to speak. Unfortunately, my wireless card was one of the ones listed to have problems, so I purchased a USB wifi adapter, the TP-Link N300 (TL-WN822N). I've noticed, however, that every two or three minutes the connection just stops. The status bar still shows that I'm connected, but anything attempting to use wifi will time out. I've found that if I just "Turn Wifi Off" from the status bar and turn it back on, connection is restored. This becomes very, very tedious to do every couple minutes though. Three times while writing this post I've had to go through this. I'm not sure where to even begin troubleshooting this, so I turned to you guys. Thanks in advanced!!
Common outputs
Code:
root@kali:~# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether f0:79:59:27:5b:96 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 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 12334 bytes 1172169 (1.1 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 12334 bytes 1172169 (1.1 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.18 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::1aa6:f7ff:fe0f:a351 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 18:a6:f7:0f:a3:51 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 99213 bytes 94827524 (90.4 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 83587 bytes 15772751 (15.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Code:
root@kali:~# iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"GetYourOwn"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: 04:A1:51:DD:40:03
Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=50/70 Signal level=-60 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
Code:
root@kali:~# dmesg | tail
[10353.517617] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
[10353.902832] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[10353.948086] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[10355.631120] wlan0: authenticate with 04:a1:51:dd:40:03
[10355.652239] wlan0: send auth to 04:a1:51:dd:40:03 (try 1/3)
[10355.664251] wlan0: authenticated
[10355.666206] wlan0: associate with 04:a1:51:dd:40:03 (try 1/3)
[10355.679655] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 04:a1:51:dd:40:03 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=4)
[10355.680353] wlan0: associated
[10355.680385] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
