Compatible Wireless Penetration Hardware for Kali Rolling
2 min readDec 29, 2019
This blog is to help consolidate the existing information about what USB devices are compatible with the latest Kali Linux Release.This is not meant to be an exhaustive post, but to provide well tested and easily obtainable hardware to perform a wireless penetration assessment.
Devices have been tested on both bare metal, and virtual machine configurations. Some results may/will need updating, and can be found at the gist address below.
For 5Gz Specific cards you can reference my blog post below:
Cheat Sheet
Troubleshooting Monitor Mode# rfkill unblock all
# airmon-ng check killInjection Test# aireplay-ng -i wlan0mon -9 -D# Test Frequency Band and Capture Abilityairodump-ng wlan1 --band ag -M -U --wps --beacons -w captureallthewirelessPower Related# iw wlan0mon set txpower 30
# iwconfig wlan0mon txpower 30
# bccmd psget 0x0017Channel Related# iwconfig wlan1 channel 149Driver Related# apt install realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms
