Hi I have an alienware m18x with kali installed on the HDD. After finding out that the default card on my machine is not supported I decided to look around to purchase a usb card so i could use kali and other linux distros on my machine. I ended up purchasing a Alfa NHA from amazon. When I connected it, plug and play like expected so I ran apt-get update and upgrade to make sure I was on the latest version (3.4.2 is what it says in my system detail). After playing around with kali (reaver, wifite, and web surfing my 3rd time) for a while the card stopped blinking and the internet disconnected message appeared and after aprox 5 seconds my computer locked up. I have tried looking around using some google fu, also searching the forum and working my way through the logs, but no avail. I found that if I disconect the card before the computer locks up, it doesnt lock up (so maybe it's the card?). I tried changing the usb cable without any luck. My card brought 2 antennas a small and a large one, it seems to lock up faster with the larger one. Im going to dump the part of the logs that seems relevant to the card in hopes that someone knows how to read it better than me
If there is any more info that you might want or need just let me know. Thanks in advanced for any help providedCode:Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> (wlan0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed. Nov 16 02:16:13 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) scheduled... Nov 16 02:16:13 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started... Nov 16 02:16:13 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete. Nov 16 02:16:29 Keki dbus[2542]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out Nov 16 02:17:01 Keki /USR/SBIN/CRON[3438]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki wpa_supplicant[3274]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid="bssid" reason=3 Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.307973] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.308292] wlan0: deauthenticating from "bssid" by local choice (reason=3) Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.412643] ath: phy0: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0x0 Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.412686] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.422680] ath: phy0: Failed to wakeup in 500us Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.523032] ath: phy0: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xa49a285a Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.557428] ath: phy0: Failed to wakeup in 500us Nov 16 02:24:50 Keki kernel: [ 585.657800] ath: phy0: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xc0286c5c Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.667830] ath: phy0: Failed to wakeup in 500us Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki dhclient: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.769541] ath: phy0: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0x80595d Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.785092] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.785101] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.785107] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.785112] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.785115] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.785119] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.785123] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> radio killswitch /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0 disappeared Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> (wlan0): now unmanaged Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: activated -> unmanaged (reason 'removed') [100 10 36] Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 585.794272] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'removed') [36] Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 3276 Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <warn> (2) failed to find interface name for index Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: nm_system_iface_flush_routes: assertion `iface != NULL' failed Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <warn> (2) failed to find interface name for index Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <info> (wlan0): cleaning up... Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <warn> (2) failed to find interface name for index Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: (nm-system.c:685):nm_system_iface_get_flags: runtime check failed: (iface != NULL) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki NetworkManager[2592]: <error> [1384586691.337874] [nm-system.c:687] nm_system_iface_get_flags(): (unknown): failed to get interface link object Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki wpa_supplicant[3274]: Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki dbus[2542]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki dbus[2542]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' Nov 16 02:24:51 Keki kernel: [ 586.034515] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd Nov 16 02:24:53 Keki kernel: [ 588.004738] usb 1-1: Device not responding to set address. Nov 16 02:24:53 Keki kernel: [ 588.207352] usb 1-1: Device not responding to set address. Nov 16 02:24:53 Keki kernel: [ 588.410983] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 3, error -71 Nov 16 02:24:53 Keki kernel: [ 588.466950] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
