Compatible Wireless Penetration Hardware for Kali Rolling

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.

Kali Linux 2019.4 Release

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.

Kali Supported USB Devices

For 5Gz Specific cards you can reference my blog post below:

How to get your new 5 GHz wireless penetration gear up and working

Cheat Sheet

Troubleshooting Monitor Mode
# rfkill unblock all 
# airmon-ng check kill
Injection Test
# aireplay-ng -i wlan0mon -9 -D
# Test Frequency Band and Capture Ability
airodump-ng wlan1 --band ag -M -U --wps --beacons -w captureallthewireless
Power Related
# iw wlan0mon set txpower 30
# iwconfig wlan0mon txpower 30
# bccmd psget 0x0017
Channel Related
# iwconfig wlan1 channel 149
Driver Related
# apt install realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms