ALFA AWUS036NHR - chip RTL8188RU - compat-wireless driver rtl8192cu

[b1nary]

i hate this card -.-

i heard BT rc5 would support finally my card <3
Excited i installed it... and what? My onboard crappy Broadcom card sees about 30 Networks, the Alfa finds only the top 3 (above 38db)
Also my "User Packages" (or whatever this is in airodump, dont get associated.

Should i just buy an AWUS036NH and make my pain an end?
Do you think we we will get this card working in conceivable time?

[tolga3589]

Not working bt 5 rc2 help please... When fix problem ?

[dmcdonnell]

FYI

The 3.2-stable linux kernel tree was patched on March 7th with "rtl8192cu-add-new-device-ids.patch" which includes "8188RU in Alfa AWUS036NHR". Those of you with Backtrack 5R2 may wish to try it to see if it resolves the problems with this wifi radio. I do not have this device so I am unable to test it myself but would be interested to hear how others get on.

Good luck!

see http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-.../msg16198.html

[ecochav]

Just for info, this now appears to work out of the box with BT5 R2.

The driver used still won't let you go above 20, although you can work around this by modifying the compat-wireless drivers are recompiling yourself, I did notice that my VM began to hang if the txpower is set above 31, although at 31 it's rock solid.

How can I edit the drivers to set full power at 33dbi? and I am also not having any associated clients on WPA/WPA2 so am unable to handshake. I have decoded WEP successfully.

Any assistance would be great.

[mesclete]

We seriously we need to be able to associate... i even cant connect with an AP normally, without being in monitor mode.

I bought this card days ago but im seriously thinking in asking for a refund.

[screwloose45]

Does it work properly or not? I'm ready to buy this thing right now...I just don't want to waste $50.

[tolga3589]

Sioccfflags unknow error 132 monitor mode help please ? When pathc inj. ?

[Gul303]

i am able to start monitor mode and injection and deauth is working with rtl8192cu, but aith airodump I am not able to get the assosiated client, any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

[1ntruder]

Well, first of all guys. Make sure your ALFA is authentic, it has been brought to my attention from some friends that they were having problem with their AWUS036NHR with BT 5 R2 and we realize that their devices were FAKE!!!! so guys make sure your device is not a cheap chinese copy and its the authentic Taiwan Made. Else only god knows what chipset is being used in those cards.

I am using my ALFA AWUS036NHR with BT 5 R2 (KDE-64bit) in a Parallels VM running on top of Mac OS X 10.7.3. Its able to set monitor mode, inject, associate, scan and detect much more networks and with higher sensitivity that my Airport Extreme. I have tested the 5db and 7 db directional panel and both work flawlessly.

I dont know if the other distros (Gnome 32/64 and 32) have a problem. Im downloading now a Gnom 32 bit to check if there is any problem.
Will report back with the findings.

Happy BTracking.

[PoorLostSoul]

I want to let you know how I installed the Alfa with injections. This worked in both Gnome and KDE.
To Start I used the instructions at the beginning of this post. For KDE, I changed the following:

--for the build and installation of drivers:

cd /usr/src/
wget http://linuxwireless.org/download/co...-04-15.tar.bz2
tar jxpf compat-wireless-2012-04-15.tar.bz2
wget http://www.backtrack-linux.org/2.6.39.patches.tar
tar xpf 2.6.39.patches.tar
cd compat-wireless-2012-04-15
make
make install

--I also kept the udev persistent rules

After continuing through the remainder of the steps, I verified that the Alfa worked and used aircrack-ng to crack my WEP router.

As for the Gnome, I changed the following:

--for the build and installation of drivers:

cd /usr/src/
wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/comp....2.5-1.tar.bz2
tar jxpf compat-wireless-3.2.5-1.tar.bz2
wget http://www.backtrack-linux.org/2.6.39.patches.tar
tar xpf 2.6.39.patches.tar
cd compat-wireless-3.2.5-1
make
make install

(Now when I did the make and make install commands, I recieved errors; and because I am a noob, I failed to write these down. They did not cause any errors with the drivers working.)

--I also kept the udev persistent rules

I was then able to use Gerix-wifi-cracker-ng to crack my WEP router.


I was using VMware for Gnome and Oracle VM VirtualBox for KDE. I am runing these VMs on an HP Pavilion dv7 running Win7 Ultimate.

PoorLostSoul