Here is some guide how to make AWUS036NHA working with Kali 2.0

I have been reading a lot and seems lot of people missing the actual step to make this Alfa AWUS036NHA running on Kali 2.0

Therefore I came out with this guide hopefully to kill your pain.



Step 1: (If you run on VMWare on Windows 8 Machine - Otherwise skip this)

If you are running Kali 2.0 on VMWare on Windows 8 you need to get right driver working.
http://www.rokland.com/mask/drivers/...36NHA-win8.zip
There is a PDF inside the folder you to guide you, you only need to install the driver, follow the step from the PDF.

Reboot Windows 8



Step 2:
You need to install compatibility driver for AWUS036NHA on Kali 2.0 which is eth9k_htc Driver
Quick way is by adding Debian 8 "Jessie"

Add a "non-free" component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

Code:
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following.

Code:
# Debian 8 "Jessie"
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-atheros package:

Code:
# apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-atheros
Connect the device to your system. The ath9k_htc kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices.

next in terminal type

Code:
dmesg
If you encounter an error such as
ath9k_htc: Firmware - htc_9271.fw download failed
don't worry its because the downloading failed therefore we need manually download the file into /lib/firmware folder

Code:
cd lib/firmware
sudo wget -P /lib/firmware http://wireless.kernel.org/download/htc_fw/1.3/htc_9271.fw
reboot
Once rebooted.

Connect the AWUS036NHA device to your system again.

type:
Code:
lsusb
to check the usb is connected to Kali.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n

Code:
dmesg
to check if any error when plug into the usb if everything is good proceed.

Code:
ifconfig -a
to check wlan1 or wlan0 is visible if yes good if not let me know.

once visible we need to kill some services.

next...

type:
Code:
airmon-ng check kill
airmon-ng start wlan1
ifconfig wlan1mon down
iwconfig wlan1mon mode monitor
ifocnfig wlan1mon up
Finally you can start

Code:
airodump-ng wlan1mon
Just to ensure that I didn't missed anything here are the history of commands. But DON'T FOLLOW exactly this because a lot of tries and errors during the process to make it work, with many forums suggest this and that which I did try most of them.

Code:
 
  731  nano /etc/apt/sources.list
  732  apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-atheros
  733  ifconfig -a
  734  service network-manager stop
  735  service network-manager start
  736  ifconfig 
  737  ifconfig -a
  738  airmon-ng 
  739  ls
  740  iwconfig 
  741  ifconfig -a
  742  cd
  743  apt-get install firmware-atheros 
  744  dmesg
  745  aptitude install firmware-atheros 
  746  dmesg
  747  lsusb
  748  dmesg
  749  ls
  750  dmesg
  751  cd /lib
  752  cd firmware/
  753  ls
  754  sudo wget -P /lib/firmware http://wireless.kernel.org/download/htc_fw/1.3/htc_9271.fw
  755  ls
  756  dmesg
  757  cd /home/seclusio/Downloads/
  758  ls
  759  cd /lib/firmware/
  760  ls
  761  dmesg
  762  ifconfig -a
  763  dmesg
  764  lsusb
  765  airmon-ng 
  766  airmon-ng check kill
  767  lsusb
  768  dmesg
  769  cd /etc/
  770  history
  771  nano apt/sources.list
  772  sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports firmware-atheros
  773  cd /lib
  774  cd firmware/
  775  ls -la /lib/firmware/htc_9271.fw
  776  ls -la /lib/firmware
  777  modprobe -rw htc_9271.fw
  778  modprobe -rv htc_9271.fw
  779  ls *htc*
  780  dmesg
  781  lsusb
  782  cd
  783  dmesg
  784  ifconfig 
  785  airmon-ng 
  786  airmon-ng check kill
  787  airmon-ng 
  788  airmon-ng start wlan1
  789  ifconfig 
  790  ifconfig wlan1mon down
  791  iwconfig wlan1mon mode monitor
  792  ifconfig wlan1mon up
  793  airodump-ng --help
  794  airodump-ng wlan1mon
Here is the working proof:
AWUS036NHA-Kali2.0-Windows8-eth9k_htc.jpg

Let me know, if I made some unnessary commands, its always about try error process, I'm not perfect by the way. Just helping out buddies here.