On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Fulcrum Mike wrote:
Hi everybody
I spent days trying to get my Alfa AWUS036H work with Wireshark on Arch Linux. It captured all sorts of fancy protocols, but no tcp. I booted Kali linux on the same PC and followed the same procedure for data capture and this time everything worked. I could see http requests to multiple wifi access points nearby.
After some more googleing, I think the problem is with the rt2800usb driver on arch. I read somewhere that kali comes with a 'modified' wifi driver for capturing tcp data. I was wondering if its possible to somehow get kali's driver working on arch? any help would be appreciated!
Regards
The Alfa AWUS036H should use rtl8187, not rt2800. Try it, and see. I remember the Alfa card having issues with Arch a couple of years ago, but i never got around to reporting the bugs...