Backtrack 5 - Alfa card compatability

[Unhumanje]

With the new release - which Alfa cards work ? I'm planning to buy a new wifi card as I was unable to get my internal RT3090 to work properly. I have looked over the:

Alfa awus036h
Alfa awus036nh
Alfa awus050nh

Which one can you recommend me for the new release of backtrack? Are there actually any changed compared to BT4 R2 in this aspect at all?

[comaX]

I don't know about changes but I can tell you my Alfa AWUS036H is working "out-of-the-box" in BT5

[syph3r]

i have alfa 36nh and tested it with injection and im pleased to say its working like clock work in bt5...i got this adapter because i wanted to be able to connect to more networks..example, if you were at a hotel and wanted to use their free wireless,but unfortunately the hotel network only offer N and your adapter is g..do you get what am saying..so yea the 36nh has all three wireless draft b/g/n..to add insult to injury get the alfa 9db antenna..its a big one..from your ellbow to the tip of your index finger

[Unhumanje]

i have alfa 36nh and tested it with injection and im pleased to say its working like clock work in bt5...i got this adapter because i wanted to be able to connect to more networks..example, if you were at a hotel and wanted to use their free wireless,but unfortunately the hotel network only offer N and your adapter is g..do you get what am saying..so yea the 36nh has all three wireless draft b/g/n..to add insult to injury get the alfa 9db antenna..its a big one..from your ellbow to the tip of your index finger

Does it work out of the box? I also believe the awus036nh is a better card on its own, but at least in BT4 R2 I read that it has some weird glitches and issues with kernel/drives/injection

[sleepdead]

Hey.. I think you should look in the hardware compatibility treads..
here is a feedback..
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...awus051nh.html

[dragon1964m]

I am running an Alfa AWUS036H and a AWUS036NH. I am having no problems with either in monitor mode or injection. Both are running out of the box". Hope this helps.

[ehloworld]

One of these was recommended to me
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/2000mw-...-antenna-41934
Am waiting for mine in the mail, will let your know how it works

[inverser]

I have both the AWUS036H and the AWUS036NH.

AWUS036H is "plug-n-play" on BT5. I turned on mon0 (airmon-ng start wlan0) and I was able to scan for and inject packets right away.

Interestingly, the AWUS036NH didn't run out of the box. I can't even get mon0 up.

Seems like I'm not the only one, either. Check out this post: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...tml#post195829

This guy's fix didn't work for me and I still haven't gotten the AWUS036NH to work on BT5.

[jpkirk]

I don't know about any of those, I have two of the Alfa AWUS051NH and they work great.
jk

[lordplagueis]

using the AWUS036H cracking my clear 4g hotspot got more than 16000 ivs in less than two minutes, I don't what the devs did but it's blazin compared to 4 R2