ALFA Networks AWUS036H

[MassAppeal]

Injection is working very well. 2 minutes to collect 20,000 IVs and successfully cracked the WEP key

Can only assume WPA is working as well, do not have my laptop with me to test a deauth attack.

Goes into monitor mode, although does not create mon0

airmon-ng start wlan0

NOTE

To get this device to inject over a greater distance then a couple of meters i had to use these commands to bump it up from a txpower of 5dbi (3mw) to 27dbi (501mw)

iwpriv wlan0 highpower 1
iwconfig wlan0 txpower 27

[reeth]

Oh you lucky guy, i have a couple of problems:

I try to connect to my wlan using iwconfig and dhclient with the rtl8187 drivers.
Seems all working but after 10 seconds the connection is dead....

TUTORIAL: Installing drivers RTL8187, r8187, RT2800usb on UBUNTU 8.10/9.04

here i read that the rtl8187 drivers would be more stable for surfing the internet than the r8187...in my case not...

i tried a rmmod rtl8187 and then a modprobe r8187, and see surfing worked perfektly.

That was yesterday today i booted my machine and tried it again i used once more

modprobe r8187 then

FATAL: Error inserting r8187 (/lib/modules....../rtl8187.ko): Invalid module format

I don't know what i should do, i tried almost everything

(btw. it worked all well in btpf kernel) were there any changes ?
Am i the only one with that kind of problem ?

is that maybee a lenovo ideapad s10e problem ?

i don't know hopefully someone could help me fixing that

btw. injection works perfekt

[MassAppeal]

All my drivers were fine, just plug & play in both BT4 Final & BT4 Pre Final

Although some things to note...

BT4 Pre Built VM Image doesnt use mon0 & doesnt go to 27dbm automatically.

BT4 Final Iso Built VM goes to 27dbm with

iwconfig wlan0 up

then airmon creates mon0

airmon-ng start wlan0

But with the ISO Built VM i am not getting any APs and i have no signal or link.
At this stage only the pre built vmware image works.

[alacrityathome]

Reeth,

Don't despair! Could be many things....including a bad DVD or install. RTL8187 should be automatic on BT4 after booting up. Then, in the terminal do "start-network" then go to the menu and Internet to start wicd.

There are different steps with BT since it is intended for penetration testing. To see if your rtl8187 and net connection is working maybe download Ubuntu 9.10 and boot up to test your rtl8187. The other benefit is that it has Net Manager.....different than wicd and it will show if you are using the rtl8187.

Once you confirm everything is working.....then go to BT4 Final to see if you have a good DVD or hdd install.

A

[reeth]

Hey, alacrityathome no the dvd is well, same as the hdd installation no troubles.

I have tried it on 9.10 before all worked...

So now i'm stiitng here with a freshly new installe BT4 and don't know what to do

[peterpanzki]

i have the same problem mates.

awus036h+ext. antenna work fine under bt4pre.i have a good and stable connection, with bt4 final i get a connection but the speed/quality is really bad.

any workarounds?

[alacrityathome]

reeth,

Sounds like you have the basic ingredients to work. Go to this thread for a good set of inputs on how to go back and forth between rtl8187 and r8187:

TUTORIAL: Installing drivers RTL8187, r8187, RT2800usb on UBUNTU 8.10/9.04

And don't forget to have fun!

A

[MassAppeal]

Update

ISO Image + VMware Install

To get this card to work the way i wanted i had to do the following

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up

The reason why i dont use airmon-ng and create mon0 is because i couldnt change mon0's mac address so i just put wlan0 into monitor mode instead. Works better IMO anyway. My ISO Image doesnt have any iwpriv features, i could only change power when i used

iw reg set US

but what other problems that causes im not to sure.

Pre-Built VMware Image

As said in my first post

airmon-ng start wlan0

doesnt create the device mon0 it just puts wlan0 into monitor mode. Also it doesnt respond to

 iw reg set

i had to use

 iwpriv wlan0 highpower 1

and then

iwconfig wlan0 txpower 27

to get a good signal.

Very weird how they respond differently, but it was still plug and play for me... you guys seem a bit more unlucky then i was.

[peterpanzki]

hey guys,

i had problems surfing websites and so on cause there was a really bad connection.
txpower switch to 27 doesnt solve the problem. for me works to blacklist rtl8187 and working with r8187.

nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

remove

blacklist r8187

add

blacklist rtl8187
blacklist mac80211
blacklist cfg80211

or just load/unload the modules at runtime.

the connection quality is shown as 0%, dont know why but it works fine for me.

[siliano]

Hello there!

I had the same problem but now it works. I am using VMware 6.5 and the bt4-VMware.zip file and an Alpha 036h 500mW. With the rtl8187 driver the Monitor mode worked well but not the Injection and it was the same thing with the r8187. First i tryed :
- rmmod rtl8187
- modprobe r8187
- blacklisted the rtl8187 driver. (Note that with the rtl8187 the Monitor mode was enabled on mon0 whereas on the r8187 it just put the wlan0 iface in Manadged mode to Monitor mode, i don't know if it's a good or bad thing.)

Then i just set the highpower on 1 and and increase the Tx power :
- iwpriv wlan0 highpower 1
- iwconfig wlan0 txpower 27

And it works, i verified with "aireplay-ng --test wlan0". So is it just a problem of card's setting and sensibility and reception ?
Hope it can help someone, it's my first contribution :]

P.S : Having made the aireplay-ng's test i deactivated the highpower in case it shall burn out, never know.