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.
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