802.11 Recommended USB Wireless Cards for Kali Linux New !
802.11 Recommended USB Wireless Cards for Kali Linux
This post lists some of the best performing, supported and recommended USB Wireless Cards for Kali Linux.
There isn’t a “best” card. There is whatever is right for YOU.
Following recommended USB Wireless cards appears to be working for Kali Linux (i.e. monitor, injection etc.)
*Note* These are not in any type of order *Note*
A common problem in pentest distro such as Kali or BackTrack Linux is when users trying to use a card which is not supported or there just isn’t a supported driver. Most of the following cards are priced below $50USD and they take care of a massive headache and saves time to troubleshoot driver issues rather than investing time to actually do something. With each update these makeshift fixes seems to break old drivers and you end up doing the whole thing again and again. Following guide generated a lot of emails and personal request where users were not able to make it work properly just because their Wifi card wasn’t listed in the recommended wireless cards for Kali Linux.
Cracking WPA WPA2 with Hashcat on Kali Linux (BruteForce MASK based attack on Wifi passwords)A good card will allow you to crack Wifi on the fly or at least make it easier. Some examples are:
- Cracking MD5, phpBB, MySQL and SHA1 passwords with Hashcat, cudaHashcat, oclHashcat on Kali Linux
- Cracking Wifi WPA/WPA2 passwords using pyrit cowpatty on Kali Linux
This whole drama goes away when you get one of the recommended usb wireless cards. Then again, I got different cards and I managed to make all of them work with Kali Linux including injection and monitor mode etc. It really depends on the user and type of card. This guide will possibly help someone who just got an unsupported card and/or tired of wasting time troubleshooting existing card and would rather spend some $$ to have this problem go away once and for all. This post is again adapted from no other than g0tmi1k’s post in Kali forums.
POST UPDATED: 28/03/2014
Added Linksys WUSB54GC v1 Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter to recommended list.
Added Linksys WUSB54GC v1 Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter to recommended list.
2.4GHz
Rokland N3
- Ralink RT3070 ~ http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Rokland_n3
- 700 mW
- Detachable antenna (RP-SMA)
- IEEE 802.11b/g/n
- 150Mbps
- WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPS
- USB 2.0
Alfa AWUS036NHA
- Atheros AR9271 ~ http://wikidevi.com/wiki/ALFA_Network_AWUS036NHA
- ~800 mW (29dBm)
- Detachable antenna (RP-SMA)
- IEEE 802.11b/g/n
- 150Mbps
- WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPS
- USB 2.0
TP-Link WN722N
- Atheros AR9002U ~ http://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN722N
- 500 mW ?
- Detachable antenna (RP-SMA)
- IEEE 802.11b/g/n
- 150Mbps
- WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPS
- USB 2.0
Linksys WUSB54GC v1
- Chipset: Ralink 2573 USB ~ https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_WUSB54GC_v1
- Driver: rt73usb
- IEEE 802.11b/g
- 150Mbps
- WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPS
- USB 2.0
- Stack: mac80211
- Injection: Yes
- See discussion here:
5GHz (& 2.4GHz)
Rosewill RNX-N600UBE
- Ralink RT3572 ~ http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Rosewill_RNX-N600UBE
- 100 mW ?
- Detachable antenna (SMA)
- IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n
- 300Mbps
- WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPS
- USB 2.0
Other useful links
- http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=install_drivers
- http://aircrack-ng.blogspot.co.uk/20…tbook-for.html
As the price will change over time and from country to country, it’s missing on purpose. Places that have been known to stock the mentioned cards:
- Amazon
- eBay
- Google Shopping
- Local PC shop
- NewEgg
If you have a different card feel free to share here which will probably help another user someday.
“No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information.” == Double check before purchasing.
Conclusion
Followings are some of the guides I have in crackmywifi.blogspot.com They will surely keep you busy for few days. I suggest looking around in Kali forums and generally Google for more interesting stuffs.
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