TP-LINK TL-WN722N USB Wireless Card on Samsung ChromeBook XE303C12-A01US
Hello all,
Running Kali Linux 1.0 for Samsung Chromebook ARM, booted from a 16GB SanDisk SD Card. Since the internal wireless on the ChromeBook doesn't support packet injection, and for some reason the Alfa AWUS036H can only seem to receive packets on this box (I can use it for Kismet and Wireshark, but not aircrack-ng nor to to associate to a WAP - power attenuation on wire may be too much) I figured I'd try the TP-LINK TL-WN722N (USB VID=0cf3, PID=9271). Been reading some of the BackTrack forums and trying their suggested solutions with no success. As follows (rebooted after each try):
- Downloaded and replaced the /lib/firmware/ files ar9271.fw and htc9271.fw.
- Ran the following commands to configure the kernel:
CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_HW=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC=m
- Tried using Erick Birbe's TL-WN722N installation script (http://erickcion.wordpress.com/2012/...-wifi-antenna/). Script failed saying make: *** /lib/modules/3.4.0/build: No such file or directory, but trying to create it with mkdir says file exists.
Command outputs:
lsusb
Code:
root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:3503 Standard Microsystems Corp.
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
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2232:1037
dmesg
Code:
root@kali:~# dmesg | grep -i 9271
[ 1.772829] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271
root@kali:~# dmesg | grep -i firmware
[ 1.467494] Firmware Version: 2.13
[ 4.873665] s5p_mfc_alloc_and_load_firmware:45: Firmware is not present in the /lib/firmware directory nor compiled in kernel
[ 4.904470] s5p_mfc_alloc_and_load_firmware:45: Firmware is not present in the /lib/firmware directory nor compiled in kernel
(Hmmm, it sees the device, can correctly identify, not sure the firmware replace worked).
card configs
Code:
root@kali:~# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
root@kali:~# iwconfig
mlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
lo no wireless extensions.
root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
(tried wlan1-5 too, since one of the posts said it might be assigned to a higher number)
Version info
Code:
root@kali:~# cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux 1.0"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="1.0"
VERSION_ID="1.0"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"
root@kali:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux Kali Linux 1.0
Release: Kali Linux 1.0
Codename: n/a
root@kali:~# uname -a
Linux kali 3.4.0 #5 SMP Sun Mar 10 18:26:14 EDT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux
root@kali:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.4.0 (root@kali) (gcc version 4.6.2 20111004 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.6-2011.10) ) #5 SMP Sun Mar 10 18:26:14 EDT 2013
Posts I have read on similar issues are here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3/#post4470219
http://forums.kali.org/showthread.ph...k-TL-WN722N-V1
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ad.php?t=62362
Thank you for any help, it is greatly appreciated.
