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  1. #1
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    Alfa AWUS036H Connection Drop Problem

    hello

    I have had an issue with my alfa AWUS036H wifi adapter on kali linux. It works perfectly on windows. However, whenever i boot kali, it connects to a wifi connection, but cant load pages. I found a work around of installing WICD, and purging network manager. That worked for about 2 days, and i was back to square one of having issues to connect.

    After extensive googleing, i came across this fix

    modprobe rtl8187
    iwconfig wlan1 rate 5.5M fixed
    iwconfig wlan1 frag 2346
    iwconfig wlan1 rts 2347
    iwconfig wlan1 txpower 30
    Thanks to this, so far, i have had no issues as of yet. I have two questions,
    1. Is there a way of making this fix permanent? That is, i would like that code to run automatically without me having to do it manually, everytime i boot the machine.
    2. If this fix fails me again, is there another work around that stops connections from dropping

    Regards,

    Andrew.

    P.S. i am a novice in linux, so kindly show me how, step by step, please

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    I have the same usb alfa and it works just great "out of the box"..

    No step by step formulas..Sorry. Create an script and then include it in runlevels 2-5.

    But again, it works out of the box.

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    thanks maverik35 for the response. how do i make a script? as i said earlier, im a novice
    just to update you on whats going on, i reinstalled kali linux again, and ran into the same problem. the card doesnt have an issue cause it works flawlessly in windows.

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    I have the same wifi card and was having the same issues as you if I'm reading your post correctly. All I did was turned off my internal wifi card, it seemed as though they both were fighting for the wifi connection which lead to it getting dropped every 5 minutes. When I am on windows it works perfect, I have no problems at all. If I run the command sudo ifconfig wlan0 down (whichever usually is my internal card) I can get a stable connection on the alfa most the time as well. As far as a script goes, I'm not sure of one.

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    thanks for the advice
    Quote Originally Posted by Rocketballz View Post
    If I run the command sudo ifconfig wlan0 down (whichever usually is my internal card) I can get a stable connection on the alfa most the time as well.

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