[arch-general] Kali rt2800usb driver on Arch for wireshark tcp capture

[Fulcrum Mike]

On 1/10/2016 4:59 PM, Fulcrum Mike wrote:
> FYI Kali live system is also using rt2800usb driver and yet it worked 
> fine. I'll use rtl8187 driver on Arch soon and see what happens. Regards
>
> On 1/10/2016 4:20 PM, Ivan wrote:
>> 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...

Can anybody here tell me how to make Arch use rtl8187 driver? Using 
'modprobe -r rt2800usb', I removed rt2800 driver and loaded rtl8187 
module, hoping that kernel would automatically switch to rtl8187 but it 
isn't happening.  Regards.