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

[Ivan]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Fulcrum Mike wrote:

> 
> 
> On 1/11/2016 12:25 AM, Ivan wrote:
> >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.
> >
> 
> Upon blacklisting rt2800usb driver, the WiFi won't come up. 'lsusb -t' shows
> that there is no driver loaded for Alfa AWUS036H on boot. Later, I manually
> loaded rt2800usb module to get the wifi working. So no luck getting the
> module working with rtl8187 drivers.
> 

You don't have an ALFA AWUS036H if it works with the Ralink driver. I'm
100% sure of it.
You might have the 036NH model, that does use Ralink. In this case, you
should talk to the pople at aircrack-ng.org, they might have some
backports that are patched for TCP.

Once again, the ALFA AWUS036H card is supposed to have a Realtek chip
and use rtl8187. I'm saying this because I've had three so far.
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