Kali Linux - Alpha card AWUS 1900 (VirtualBox)
Make your AWUS 1900 Alpha card work in Kali
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Make your AWUS 1900 Alpha card work in Kali
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My setup is VirtualBox Version 6.1.20 r143896 (Qt5.6.3) with Kali linux 5.10.0-kali7-amd64 (2021-04-12)
Update your Kali
Install additional packages for later compilation
Make sure that your virtualized Kali has installed Guest Additions and your VirtualBox installation has an extesion pack.
which comes with your VirtualBox in form of insertable CD-ROM Image (VM menu Devices->Insert Guest Additions). Install and reboot.
. You need to install the same extension pack version as your VirtualBox version.
My testing VM configuration has the following port options (VM -> Settings > Ports).
Install a Realtek driver for your Alpha card AWUS 1900 using package manager so the driver already exists as a package in your Kali distro.
However, this driver did not work for me. Kali sees the wifi card hardware (lsusb), but no wireless card is detected (iwconfig). This means that driver compilation did not succeed or a driver is wrong for my hardware.
Remove the driver installed via the package manager
Let's try a manual driver compilation with a specific driver we have found using lsusb command. Follow Debian Linux installation path in this article.
