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Cannot scan with my Alfa AWUS036H

Hi,

I have been working on this problem for weeks. I can only get broadcast traffic over my alfa AWUS036H. I started on windows and tried everything. And then I went to backtrack 5r2 -- which supposed has the right driver already installed. I have followed the instructions on countless forums with no luck: I only see broadcast traffic.

Is it possible that I have a bad alfa? Has that ever happened to anyone? Also, I have onboard wifi -- I have tried this on 3 machines all with onboard wifi. So I am using wlan1 as my interface. Of course, yes I have used airmon-ng to put the card -- actually a usb device -- in monitor mode and then the interface is mon0. And I have put wlan1 in monitor mode manually with iwconfig. I really have tried anything.

In addition to wireshark I have tried tshark, kismet, airodump-ng.

Should I trash this card? What should I get instead?

Thanks,

Chris

monitoring awus036h

asked 09 Sep '12, 16:26

chrisexx
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One Answer:

You cannot use that adapter to capture WLAN traffic on Windows (monitor mode is not supported by WinPcap - http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN).
On Linux you need to activate "monitor" mode for the WLAN adapter (search google for that)
There are differing reports about the AWUS036H with Backtrack 5R2. Some say it works, others report driver problems !??!. I suggest to search for help in the Back Track forum, as that's certainly a better place than the Wireshark forum.

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=143

BTW: Did you try what's described in the following link (first post)?

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=45455

Regards
Kurt

answered 09 Sep '12, 18:00

Kurt Knochner ♦
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edited 09 Sep '12, 18:07