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...
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