AR9271 802.11n 150Mbps Wireless USB WiFi Adapter WLAN Network Card for Kali Linux/Linux/Ubuntu/CD Linux/Windows 7/8/10/Centos

This little thing was great! It’s cheap and arrived quickly before my road trip.I could not find my “expensive” USB WiFi dongle and antenna. This saved the day for me when I was up against the clock.

The Atheros 9271 has been known for about 10 years as the best hacker friendly USB wifi chipset. Then they disappeared, they designed a disappointing hacker unfriendly v.2...this is the first brand new batch I've seen in at least 7-8 years. 12$ and they still out-perform a few of my Alfa's (cost about 5-6X the $). This isn't the best housing, it seems cheap plastic but it came with plastic film still on it, LEDs work, and the chipset...on 2.4ghz (and only 2.4ghz) I still don't think there's a better toolbag USB wifi to have around for "auditing" pulls handshakes extremely quick, injection is still probably more reliable than modern expensive cards...I was amazed at the range of "auditing" it is still amazing at. For a daily driver, for anything, or for nothing...for 12$ you could buy these and stash them away till this new batch disappears and sell them for 50$ a pop to people in cyber sec communities.

Works out of the box with Linux kernals. Particularly Kali, and that's through a proxmox vm. It actually seems that direct passthrough for the device works the best, which makes sense, but sucks since I can't share it to other machines on my "ranch".Definitely not for speed but is a capable little device. I do have disable and re-enable the device if it goes unused but that might be power saving on my motherboard or just proxmox itself.Other than that, good purchase. THIS WORKS WITH KALI AS OF 10/6/24 - remember though always check your chipsets :D

Works great out of the box with Kali Linux and Nethunter, no drivers necessary. Packet injection works great on 2.4GHz networks, and I was able to capture handshakes relatively quickly

Connected to a hotspot, ran iwconfig and I got this output.wlp0s20f3 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"XXXXX"Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: REDACTEDBit Rate=57.8 Mb/s Tx-Power=22 dBmRetry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:offPower Management:onLink Quality=33/70 Signal level=-77 dBmRx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:35 Missed beacon:0wlxc01c30113bf5 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"REDACTED"Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: REDACTEDBit Rate=19.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBmRetry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:offPower Management:offLink Quality=27/70 Signal level=-83 dBmRx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:104 Missed beacon:0The best it can do is enter monitor mode.

Works perfectly and as advertised. If you intend to use it in Windows 10/11, install it then go to Windows Update | Additional Drivers to install the required Windows driver. There is NO need to search for the manufacturer's website and download from there. Windows will install the proper driver under Windows Update. The 1-star reviews about no driver are simply wrong.My GNU/Linux Parrot OS Security Edition distro running under VMWare recognized it immediately and connected...no external driver had to be installed.Under Parrot, I commanded Monitor mode in Airgeddon and proceeded to test against my wireless router. Worked perfectly. Promptly received a handshake using attack vector #2.Inexpensive. Works as designed. Great value.

Using with Mac (Intel) Ventura, VMWare Fusion 13.5, and Kali 2024.3 customized by zSecurity. Runs all examples in the course, including monitor mode, etc, with air-xxxx-ng utilities.No drivers to install. Just plug it in after booting Kali.

worked great for a few weeks - light use as an adapter for a streaming integrated amp, then just stopped working one day. disappointed this was 1 day after the return window closed.