I am experiencing some issues with an Wireless Adapter. Long story short:
- I have a USB Wireless Adapter:
AWUS036ACH
(chipset:RTL8812AU
) - drivers are up to date: (i.e.,
apt-get install realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms
) - the card is recognized by
lsusb
(i.e., both in VirtualBox and USB live boot) - the card is not listed by
ifconfig -a
Here is the output of some of the commands I tried:
uname -r
:4.14.0-kali1-amd64
lsusb
:Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
ifconfig -a
:eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 # more details removed lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 # more details removed
apt-get install realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms
:Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms is already the newest version (5.1.5~20171206-0kali1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Additional information:
- the network adapter in VirtualBox is set to
NAT
, however this may not be relevant because the same issue occurs when I do a live boot - the cards works on Windows and it is supported by Kali too
- just to make sure, I also tried
apt-get update
andapt-get dist-upgrade
Do you have any ideas what I am missing? Thank you.
Edit:
- I installed the driver using the
dkms
as described in the aircrack-ng repository and it worked. Note: If you run the installation in VirtualBox, theUSB
controller must be set toxHCI
(3.0). - @sawdust suggested the following link on Kali forums which may be very helpful.
dmesg
) for your adapter requesting a firmware load, and whether it was successful.var/log/messages
file and, then, I rebooted the system. Couldn't find anything. I searched for these keywords:realtek
,8812
,firmware
,wifi
. This is the only thing that caught my eye:manager: rfkill: WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
. Any clue what should I try next?gsd-rfkill[1296]: Error setting up rfkill: Could not open RFKILL control device, please verify your installation
. The device appears to be loaded:New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8812 | New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 | Product: 802.11n NIC | Manufacturer: Realtek
.