Problems with ALFA Network AWUS036NH and BT4

[Charles]

Hi,

I've got a Alfa Networks AWUS036NH, which uses the RT3070 chipset. Backtrack4 Final shows it as an RT 2870 when I run lsusb.

airmon-ng ra0 shows that it's an rt2500.

I cannot get it working with Kismet or airedump-ng. I don't know if being detected as an rt2500 is the cause of the problem or not, but I don't have any idea where to start troubleshooting.

I've got an AWUS036H on the way, in case I cannot get this new adapter to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

EDIT: It looks like it works with kismet if I set it to use the 2870 chipset. Unfortunately it's extremely slow and doesn't really work all that well.

[S3M73X]

nice post Charles.

I have also such an adapter and just hat a short talk to pure_hate who also owns such a device.
After searching the web i found out that the Ralink Chipset rt3070 is better supported on the latest kernel v2.6.31.

And pure_hated said he got it to run using the wireless compat drivers and some special firmware like described in here -> TUTORIAL: Installing drivers RTL8187, r8187, RT2800usb on UBUNTU 8.10/9.04

and pure_hate used the "rt2800" usb-wireless-device-drivers then to get the awus036nh running in a ubuntu-machine.

did not try it yet but maybe i will. ;D

[Charles]

Thanks for the info. I'll check that out.

[strasharo]

You could also check this LINK, there's a detailed guide how to install the neccessary drivers for this card, please report back the results if you try it.

[jamesc00ls0x]

"You could also check this LINK, there's a detailed guide how to install the neccessary drivers for this card, please report back the results if you try it." 

i have the alfa 2w card and after about a week of trying, gave up on the injection. i tried this, and it said (in ubuntu, i couldn't get it to work at all with BT4) that the programs used in this tutorial, are new, and wont work for the job. and me being new, didn't know how to revert to old software

[strasharo]

"You could also check this LINK, there's a detailed guide how to install the neccessary drivers for this card, please report back the results if you try it." 

i have the alfa 2w card and after about a week of trying, gave up on the injection. i tried this, and it said (in ubuntu, i couldn't get it to work at all with BT4) that the programs used in this tutorial, are new, and wont work for the job. and me being new, didn't know how to revert to old software

New instructions HERE

[darlord]

I have a AWUS036NH and I use's the tutorial S3M73X linked to with only one issue; when you install the firmware instead of doing

/lib/firmware/$(uname -r)

do

/lib/firmware/

I'm running BT4 and the card works great.

[msenoz]

I have a AWUS036NH and I use's the tutorial S3M73X linked to with only one issue; when you install the firmware instead of doing

/lib/firmware/$(uname -r)

do

/lib/firmware/

I'm running BT4 and the card works great.

Darlord,
do you mean AWUS036NH (rt3070) works well with bt4 for injection etc, with the tutorial below link and your advise?

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

[darlord]

Yes it works great. I'm doing the wifi course and I"m using that 'card' and I"m able to do all the labs with no trouble.

[login63]

Kindly please somebody clever to post here the exact guide how to install BT4 under VMware and to configure AWUS036NH to work with injection. I tried several times using the a/m giudes but every time the result is as follows:
=======
root@bt:~# modprobe rt2800usb
root@bt:~# airmon-ng start wlan0
Interface Chipset Driver
wlan0 Unknown rt2800usb - [phy1]
(monitor mode enabled on mon0)
root@bt:~# aireplay-ng -9 mon0
11:18:00 Trying broadcast probe requests...
11:18:02 No Answer...
11:18:02 Found 0 APs
root@bt:~#
=======
Thank you very much in advance!