First-- let me say I have done a good bit of reading on this already. I have read many (not very helpful) articles on compat wireless from 2012 or earlier that have not solved my issue for one reason or another. I realize that many people are using the AWUS036H or AWUS036NHA without issue.
I have the gotten the card working in both a VM, and standalone when I boot to a live-usb. The card comes up, and it scans 20+ AP's which is great.... but I cannot associate with any of them. I can correctly set the card to monitor mode but if I do an aireplay-ng test
Code:
root@kali:~# aireplay-ng -9 wlan0
05:02:40 Trying broadcast probe requests...
05:02:42 No Answer...
05:02:42 Found 20 APs
05:02:42 Trying directed probe requests...
05:02:42 00:00:00:00:00:00 - channel: 1 - 'AP1'
05:02:48 0/30: 0%
05:02:48 00:00:00:00:00:00 - channel: 1 - 'AP2'
05:02:54 0/30: 0%
05:02:54 00:00:00:00:00:00 - channel: 1 - 'AP3'
05:03:00 0/30: 0%
etc.... etc...
I then tried to single out a specific AP and run an aireplay test against it..
Code:
root@kali:~# aireplay-ng -9 -a 00:00:00:00:00:00 wlan0
05:11:48 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 00:00:00:00:00:00) on channel 13
05:11:51 wlan0 is on channel 13, but the AP uses channel 1
root@kali:~# iwconfig wlan0 channel 1
root@kali:~# aireplay-ng -9 -a 00:00:00:00:00:00wlan0
05:12:18 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 00:00:00:00:00:00) on channel 7
05:12:25 wlan0 is on channel 7, but the AP uses channel 1
Similarly, I cannot get reaver to associate and I am running out of ideas. Can someone please suggest something?
Edit: Should I opt for a different card like the AWUS036NHA or AWUS036H?? Even my card is supposedly supported right out of the box, so I don't know why I'm having issues.