issue with RT3070 chipset

[wice]

Hi
I did check the recommended cards list and one of them was RT3070
http://www.wirelesshack.org/top-kali...gles-2015.html

The card seems to be working out of the box, it is recognized
and kind of installed
it also goes in to the monitoring mode
BUT airodump-ng can not display anything when scanning

airodump-ng wlan0mon

Here are the needed details:
lsusb:

@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0e0f:0008 VMware, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0003 VMware, Inc. Virtual Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

and dmsg:

[    4.234687] usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[    4.577485] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 3070, rev 0201 detected
[    4.893303] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 0005 detected
[    4.900537] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[    4.900989] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[    5.228205] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[    5.243925] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[    5.249682] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[    5.251042] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[    5.252366] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[    5.265165] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[    5.265209] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
[    5.266964] rt2800usb 1-1:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rt2870.bin
[    5.266970] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.36
[    8.285701] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[    8.653786] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[  295.196705] fuse init (API version 7.24)
[  297.410811] NET: Registered protocol family 40
[  585.143956] device wlan0mon entered promiscuous mode

and iwconfig:

@kali:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0mon  IEEE 802.11bgn  Mode:Monitor  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Tx-Power=35 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          
eth0      no wireless extensions.

Now here is how it goes in to the monitoring mode:

@kali:~# airmon-ng check kill && airmon-ng start wlan0


PHY	Interface	Driver		Chipset

phy0	wlan0		rt2800usb	Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070

		(mac80211 monitor mode vif enabled for [phy0]wlan0 on [phy0]wlan0mon)
		(mac80211 station mode vif disabled for [phy0]wlan0)

here what it does with

CH 8 ][ ELAPSED: 1 min ][ 2017-04-18 16:13

BSSID                   PWR Beacons     #Data  #/s   CH    MB    ENC    CIPHER  AUTH  ESSID


BSSID                   STATION               PWR    Rate   Lost   Frames  Probe

So no scan results are coming up

I believe there is something I'm missing ...
it works fine with Windows, scans and lists all networks...

Could u help in this one ?

[wice]

Ok Sorted the issue,

The Device is too powerful, by specs its High Power(5800MW) 58DBI
I have set TX to 35 dBm , which is 3,2 W, so it seems it needed more power,
I changed USB2 to USB3 in VMware Settings, and it works just fine,

By the way if this spec is troth, I can increase up to 47 DBI which is
50 W (Sounds bit unrealistic ) but question is what is Safe no "Self harm" limit ?