Also it supports monitor mode.Īlfa AWUS036NHA adapter is a well-established model. Sometimes it is important not to attract attention - for that situation it is ideal. It also can work with the 802.11 n standard, but there is no external antenna at all.ĭo not think that the younger model means a worse model. Wireless adapter Panda PAU05 USB Wi-Fi is an even younger model. It supports standard 802.11 n, but there is no support for 5GHz. This Panda PAU06 USB Wi-Fi can be considered a younger model of the first Panda PAU09. More details about its merits and demerits, I wrote here. Though it is rather conditional – with such antennas PAU09 is still quite large.īefore that time I did many of my wireless pentests with Alfa AWUS052NH.

Panda Wireless PAU09 N600 compared with this model can be considered as a more compact option. It has a USB extension cable, but cannot, unlike the previous one, to be plugged into the computer directly. Running airodump-ng it pulled up a lot of access points and their information.Īfter this we used the airodump-ng command again to get a Data Capture / WPA Handshake on our own router which came up quickly.Īnother modern adapter that is fully compatible with Kali Linux is Alfa AWUS052NH. Starting Monitor Mode Kali Linux set the adapter to wlan0mon The chipset and the driver of this adapter supports monitor mode. It is also compatible with Linux including Kali and going into monitor mode which is necessary to do Wireless Penetration Testing. Panda PAU09 is compatible with most any version of Windows including XP/Vista/7/8/8.r2 32-bit and 64-bit. It can also be used as a stand and has a 5 foot USB cord making it nice to use with a desktop. The antennas use a standard SMA connector and simply screw on to the dongle.Ī small USB extender is included that can be used if needed. The package comes with the dongle, two 5dBi antennas, driver disk, instructions, and a USB extender stand. The wireless dongle has two large 5dBi antennas to improve the signal. The adapter supports several Linux distributions, as well as Windows.

A new wireless USB adapter named Panda PAU09 is compatible with Kali Linux.

At the time of writing, it was not possible to set it to monitor mode. Some time ago, TP-LINK TL-WN722N V2 came out, i.e. įor a while TP-LINK TL-WN722N is one of the most popular Wi-Fi adapters that works well in wireless attacks with Kali Linux. The fresh big list of wireless adapters with 100% Kali Linux support here.

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