Is Kali Linux 2017.2 compatible with the Alfa AWUS1900 adapter ?

Hi, I'm new to this forum, so sorry if I'm posting this at the wrong place ^^

So, I started playing around with WiFi cracking last week (on my own network of cours ^^) and my old WiFi adapter (a chinese Alfa clone) died :(

I'm was looking on Amazon for a replacement and I found this:
https://www.amazon.fr/Network-AWUS19...ustomerReviews

I have a couple questions:

1. Is this adapter compatible with Kali Linux 2017.2 ?
2. Can its power be changed from 20dBm to 30dBm (like my old chinese clone) ?
3. Will I need any special drivers and if yes, where can I find them ?

Hope someone can help, havea nice day :)

The answer is easy.. it's a YES it's supported. currently using this one myself.

1. It IS compatible with Kali
2. The power CAN be changed to 30dBm
3. Yes, because the driver "realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms" package from apt-get got some issues (which will be fixed soon) related to txpower,
you better build it yourself from https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au/tree/v4.3.21

Hello,
I just got this: https://www.amazon.com/Alfa-AC1900-W...3de9220fe33471

Before doing any installation or try anything I wanted to ask if there are specific things that need to be done to make it work and if so what exactly? I have an old antenna that has trouble cracking AtherosC wifi password, will I be able to come across the problem with the new one that I purchased?

Best Regards

@martimarti, take the easy route first :) Plug it into a native Kali install (non virtual machine), and verify it will go into monitor mode & do packet injection.

Alright. I am supposed to receive it today or tomorrow. Once I do test, I will report back. I am actually having ome of my laptops only with Kali no other OS. Thank you very much

No problem, hope it works out for you

Hi,
Followed this post to install the alfa: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...ll=1#post75539

Didn't work:
-ifconfig doesn't recognize it
-iwconfig doesn't recognize it
-started win10, plugged in same usb, alfa works, light is on, bunch of networks, didn't have to install the cd

Also tried this: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...ll=1#post76143

Still got same results.
What should I try?

Thanks

p.s. 1/4/2018 I gave up on this and I bought AWUS036NH. Works great, no drivers install nothing, plug and play. Now researching how to make reaver work properly. Best regards