Hello,
I've been trying to get my new ALFA AWUS036NHA to work with my Rpi 3 and yet when I plug it in through a powered usb hub the wifi adapter shows up in lsusb but never in iwconfig or airmon-ng. Apparently it should work without trouble by just plugging it in but that has not been working for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been re-imaging my micro SD for days now.
I am currently running the Kali ARM image: "kali-2017.2-rpi3-nexmon.img"
Here is a sample of code of common commands that requested whenever an issue like this is presented.
Code:
root@kali:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=31 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
root@kali:~# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::ba27:ebff:fe78:87c5 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether b8:27:eb:78:87:c5 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 210481 bytes 307368395 (293.1 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 130935 bytes 10417192 (9.9 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 76:77:dc:84:41:09 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 3111 bytes 1370855 (1.3 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 3111 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
root@kali:~# airmon-ng
PHY Interface Driver Chipset
phy0 wlan0 ?????? Broadcom 43430
root@kali:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath9k_htc 56142 0
ath9k_common 21702 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw 415116 2 ath9k_common,ath9k_htc
ath 18741 3 ath9k_common,ath9k_htc,ath9k_hw
mac80211 532098 1 ath9k_htc
brcmfmac 2286902 0
brcmutil 5661 1 brcmfmac
cfg80211 429089 5 ath,ath9k_common,brcmfmac,mac80211,ath9k_htc
rfkill 16082 3 cfg80211
bcm2835_wdt 3225 0
bcm2835_gpiomem 2976 0
uio_pdrv_genirq 3164 0
uio 8128 1 uio_pdrv_genirq
ip_tables 11445 0
x_tables 13293 1 ip_tables
ipv6 347371 20
root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 2109:2813 VIA Labs, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@kali:~#
The item "VIA Labs" in lsusb is my powered USB hub.
I have the following but to no avail, I am certainly willing to try them again if they yield any extra information:
- Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y"
- Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get dist-upgrade"
- Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get install kali-linux-full"
- Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get install firmware-atheros"
- Plugged in the adapter before and after download and running the raspi-config file supplied by official Raspberry Pi sources to increase the allocated storage space on my SD
- Plugged the adapter straight into the Pi, circumventing the powered USB hub
- Done all of the above and rebooting whenever possible
- Done all of the above and re-imaged and tried a different combinatoin
- Done all of the above with a different AWUS036NHA adapter
- Tested both adapters on a Desktop VM running Kali 2017.2 64-bit and both worked perfectly.
At this point I would be over the moon if I was told that the AWUS036NHA model was incompatible with the current Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and/or the current supplied image so any response at all is highly appreciated.
