AWUS036AC not working on Dell Inspiron 14 2-in-1

What have you tried: second card promised native support. not working out of box. Tried sudo apt install realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms, Tried pulling down the rtl8812au driver from github, no joy. Device lights up instantly in Windows.

What is the error: When I try to initialize the driver I get make ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/6.11.2-amd64/build M=/home/eric/rtl8812au modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/6.11.2-amd64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:1730: modules] Error 2

I tried digging into that error on line 1730 of the Makefile, but I admit it, I’m not that smart so I didn’t see anything to edit there:

1730 $(MAKE) ARCH=$(ARCH) CROSS_COMPILE=$(CROSS_COMPILE) -C $(KSRC) M=$(shell pwd) modules
1731 @echo

WHen I try lsusb I get: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2T2R DB WLAN Adapter, but no pretty lights.

What device is this on: Dell Inspiron 14 2-in-1 (i7)

Any realtek chipset is not natively supported. Not sure who told you that, but they’re mistaken.

That’s not very helpful. I thought this was supposed to be a forum where we shared information, Simply telliing me there’s a problem with my data is merely pushing the obvious button, is it not?

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No, I’m telling you why you’re having problems. Your hardware isn’t supported properly.

So my first information source was Kali Linux WIreless Penetration Testing for Beginners, Editin 3, by Cameron Buchanon and Vivek Ramachandran.. In their section on setting up the wireless lab they mention getting a wireless adapter and state: “The best choice seems to be the Alpha AWUS036H card from Alpha networks as Kali supports this out of the box”. My second information source was Amazon, after I tried the first iteration of this card and found it non-functional. without digging into tarballs and make files and that (IMHO) is (considering this pretty-shiny distro that’s apt-based distro that is Kali ) a house that I should not have to paint! The adverstisment for the AC1200 version also promised that the card was natively supported,but then the site subsequently haqs condensed its specific menton of kali in the add to LINUX on the site with pointers to the shennanigans for getting this card going. This appeared to be an official forum. I don’t know if you guys care about reputation but it appears that, between the tech journalists/experts who wrote the book, the coders who hacked the distro, the security community that is supposed to depend on the tools this distro provides, someone dropped the ball. I find your bluntness to be somewhat blase and surprising that given that you are deemed a community moderator.

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Actually getting reatltek chipsets set up to use monitor mode etc you have to set up dkms drivers;

latest drivers here;

Just for reference, to gain ‘proof of concept’ hacking WiFi you’ll need to downgrade the WiFi standard to WEP on the router/access point, most of the WiFi hacks don’t work on modern routers, they are typically using WPA2 or later, and they will ignore your requests.

That book was written in 2017.

I pulled down the same driver and the only way I get that error is by just running make.

Did you read the readme and install the required dependencies? And then, did you run the install script?