I contacted their support and they asked me to download the customised version by Z Security which I did. It seemed to be partially detected by the kernel and wouldn’t fully go into monitor mode. They both worked but the WiFi Nation card did not fully load in the standard Kali install.

Alfa Network AWUS036NHA - USB WiFi Adapter, 150 Mbps, 802.11b/g/n, RP-SMA, AR9271L Atheros Chipset.

WiFi Nation® 802.11ac AC600 USB WiFi antenna, adapter, wireless dongle 2dBi dipole SMA antenna, chipset: Realtek RTL8811AU, Dual Band 2.4GHz or 5GHz, Windows, macOS and linux supportedĪnd I also bought this USB wireless NIC on Amazon for £20.49 and this is the card I would recommend:.

I bought this USB wireless NIC on Amazon for £23.97: I’m going to explain how to do this anyway as this is how I’ve configured mine.įor the purpose of this tutorial I purchased two cards from Amazon to test. Ideally using Kali on a bootable USB or a physical installation will be easier as extending the wireless USB NIC to the virtual machine isn’t straight forward. This will work with some effort but we’ll need to make some changes. Up until now we’ve been using Kali Linux installed as a Virtual Box virtual machine. Most Popular Kali Linux Pen Testing Chipsets The manufacturer you use is mostly irrelevant as long as they are using one of the chipsets which support the functionality we require. The majority of network cards don’t support “ Monitor Mode” and “ Packet Injection” which is essential for ethical hacking and penetration testing. This is important, you need to make sure you are running the latest versions of both “ Virtual Box” and the “ Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack”.

If you are using Virtual Box, download and install the latest version of Virtual Box and Extension Pack.Wireless USB chipset which supports monitoring and packet injection.In order to follow this tutorial you will need the following: A lot of people have requested this article, so here goes :)

Kali virtualbox no wireless extensions