HOWTO- Alfa 802.11a/b/g/n AWUS050NH (rt2800usb) on BackTrack 4 R1

[Net2010]

There is a good write up on the awus036nh and bt4r1. There is a patch that fixes the issue with mon0 is on channel x and the ap is on channel z. i have tried the patch with the awus036nh usb it and association and injection is now ok.
The only problem i seem to have is that the packet injection is going ok (500pps) on but the iv`s are not increasing.Kindly give feedback

Read the blog here hXXp://blog.rootshell.be/2010/08/09/backtrack4-r1-awus036nh-win/

Credits to /dev/random for the good write up, DomInat3 for the patch and muts for the great os.

I followed the instructions and most of it work for me the one problem is channel -1and if i use this

cd /usr/src/drivers
wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2010-04-20.tar.bz2
tar jxvf compat-wireless-2010-04-20.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2010-04-20
wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211_2.6.32.2-wl_frag+ack_radiotap.patch
cat mac80211_2.6.32.2-wl_frag+ack_radiotap.patch | patch -p1
make
make install
make unload
modprobe rt2800usb 

i got working use 100% with out any problem

[Sanjeev]

Hi All,

I have recently bought an Alfa 802.11a/b/g/n AWUS051NH wireless adapter and followed all the steps in the installation guide for installing the driver on Ubuntu (since the underlying OS of backtrack is Ubuntu). Now when i type iwconfig and the result was:

lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ra0 Ralink STA

It means there is some driver problem, correct?

I also tried armon-ng and the output was blank.

I followed the steps mentioned in "AWUS051NH_Linux_QIG.pdf" that is shipped with the adapter and since backtrack kernel version is "2.6.30.9" i used the driver "RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0.tar.tar.bz2".

Please help me in troubleshooting this issue and get the adapter working.

Note i tried: "apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-ralink" as well.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Sanjeev

[LHYX1]

Hi all,
I also bought the Alfa AWUS051NH wireless adapter but I can't get it to work.
(I have backtrack 4 R2)

root@bt:~# airmon-ng


Interface	Chipset		Driver

wlan1		Ralink RT2870/3070	rt2800usb - [phy0]

root@bt:~# iwconfig wlan1
wlan1     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on

root@bt:~# airmon-ng start wlan1


Found 3 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID	Name
5944	wpa_supplicant
5963	dhclient
5983	dhclient
Process with PID 5944 (wpa_supplicant) is running on interface wlan0
Process with PID 5983 (dhclient) is running on interface wlan0


Interface	Chipset		Driver

wlan0		Atheros 	ath9k - [phy1]
wlan1		Ralink RT2870/3070	rt2800usb - [phy0]SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

				(monitor mode enabled on mon0)

root@bt:~# airodump-ng wlan1
ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory

When I try this:

cd /usr/src/drivers/compat*
make install
make wlunload
make wlload

Still no succes.
I get the same error.

Please help

[KingKhan1]

Hi Peeps, i'm a noob 2 Backtrack and im really stuck trying to get my Hornettek Janus High Power 802.11 b/g/n WLAN USB Adapter with an RT3072 chipset to work with my Backtrack 4. i hav done lsusb and it shows that i have this Janus RT3072 connected but i cant't seem to get it to work , iwould really appreciate it if sme1 can hook me up with the commands Or way to get this working .
thnx in advance to any1 who tries to help out.

[nokers]

Alright i have got a lot of help here so far. I have installed the drivers and got everything to work including monitor mode. My problem is i connect to the internet for anywhere between 2 to 10 minutes before my connection is lost. I dont get it, I can do everything fine but only for a random amount of time. Then i must go back to Wicd to reconnect again. Only to last another few minutes. I have done ifconfig wlan0 down up and sudo start stop and everything else i can find on the matter but nothing works. Any help i could get would be great and would help me get on to bigger and better things.