- In this video, I'm going to show you how to solve a problem with
some wifi adapters, such as this ALFA and network adapter. When using this with KALI Linux. This network adapter has
a real tech chip set, not recognized out of the box by KALI. That's one of the reasons why I recommend this network adapter, because
it works out of the box. The problem with this network adapter is it only supports 2.4 gigahertz. So if you use, say these
ALFA network adapters, support 2.4 as well as five gigahertz with a real tech chip set, they're not going to be
recognized by KALI out of the box. You'll have the same kind of problem with some of
the Panda network adapters. You'll need to install drivers to get some of these working. I have found that in my tests, a lot of these adapters
work out of the box with (inaudible), but they don't work with KALI. So as an example, I'll connect this alpha
network adapter to my Mac. This is a brand new installation of KALI. I haven't installed any drivers. My Mac asks me, do I want to connect the network
adaptor to my Mac or to Linux? I'm going to connect to Linux. And within KALI, I'll
open up a command prompt. Iwconfig shows me that
no wifi adapter exists. I see ethernet zero. I see a loop back, but I don't
see a wifi network adapter. So even though this is connected, it's not recognized. The same is going to happen
with this wifi adapter. It's also not recognized by KALI. Okay, so let's solve the problem. So in this example, I am
using KALI Linux 2021.1. The wifi adapter is not recognized. Now, before we continue,
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whole bunch of technologies, including a bunch of hacking videos. So I'm going to type sudo apt update to update my references. The way this is connecting to the internet is through the ethernet adapter, which is bridged, or in my
case, and added to my Mac. So, as an example, if I
look at my network adapter, notice it's being shared with my Mac. Something similar will happen if you're using a Windows laptop. So, process is exactly the same whether you're using Windows or Mac. Use the same commands. So again, sudo apt update
is the first command. And then we're going to
type sudo apt upgrade to upgrade the operating system. Now, this will take a while. So go and get a coffee
while this upgrades. I'll speed the video up
so that you don't have to wait for this to complete. Okay. So that's now completed. I'll clear the screen,
sudo apt dist-upgrade -y. That's been done now. So sudo reboot. Now, reboot the virtual machine. I'll log back in again. Open up a terminal. Now, before I show you how
to install the drivers, lsusb shows me the driver
used by this network adapter. So, that's why I'm using this command to install the correct drivers, because that's the network card used by this ALFA network adapter. Put in my password for
KALI, download the drivers. Now, found that this
takes a while to install. So, you'll see that it
might hang at about 94%. That's my experience doing this on multiple virtual machines. Just wait for it to complete. So don't try and break it at this point. Just wait for it to complete. To make this easier for you, I've put the commands below this video so you can simply copy those and use them. I've done this on
multiple virtual machines and the installation works for me. It's a bit of a process,
but it is possible to get to the network
adapter working on KALI. Okay. So that's now completed. I'm going to install dkms. That's actually already installed. Now, in theory, this should
work, but it doesn't. So what I'm going to
do is clone the drivers from the aircrack-ng GitHub page. So I'm going to download newer drivers, because those previous drivers
don't work with this adapter. This adapter gives quite
a few problems it seems. So I'm going to download the
latest drivers from GitHub. So do a git clone, and then I'm going to move to
that directory that's cloned. You can see there's some software there. So again, there are various
files and directories. I'm going to use the command make, and then make install
to install the software. Now I've just used make, without sudo. Some people have had to use sudo make to actually get the command to work, but the drivers are now being compiled and then we'll install them. Okay. So that's been done. So sudo make install
to install the drivers. That's done now, so hopefully iwi config will show us the adaptor. It doesn't in this case,
I'm going to unplug it, plug it back in again,
connect it to Linux, sort of hanging now. So that's a good sign. And there you go wlan0
has now been picked up. This wifi adapter is
now available in KALI. So as an example, I could
use the command sudo wifite to detect wifi networks around me. So there you go. A whole bunch of wifi
networks have been detected. So I'll stop that. And I'll clear the screen. Okay. So lsusb shows me the chip set and what this wifi adapter supports and iwconfig shows me
that the wifi adapter is now available in KALI. Okay, so hopefully that
helps a lot of you. I'll create an updated video
if this changes in future, but hopefully this helps a lot of you. Now, if you enjoy this
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