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

[Ivan]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Fulcrum Mike wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.
> 

Try blacklisting rt2800 via /etc/modprobe.d/ and reboot.
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