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problems with realtek 8811CU wireless lan 802.11ac USB NIC drivers

I'm having problems with the drivers on Kali Linux for my wireless dongle. The problem is running this command: sudo airodump-ng wlan0. I have already configured everything as wlan0 as Mon but the command still doesn't print any wifi networks around me, they are present, I think the problem is the age of the stick and I imagine that the drivers have no longer been updated. link of the drivers I downloaded: https: //github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU. git. Thanks in advance
(Feb 7, 2024 08:09 AM)User:21/42/3929 Wrote:  I'm having problems with the drivers on Kali Linux for my wireless dongle. The problem is running this command: sudo airodump-ng wlan0. I have already configured everything as wlan0 as Mon but the command still doesn't print any wifi networks around me, they are present, I think the problem is the age of the stick and I imagine that the drivers have no longer been updated. link of the drivers I downloaded: https: //github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU. git. Thanks in advance

Realtek WiFi adapters don't have good support for monitor mode or Linux. This probably isn't huge news to you as you've had to install a random out-of-band driver. That chipset in particular may be flaky. It's USB3, right? dmesg may show some useful information.
are you sure its wlan0, try Wlan1
(Feb 7, 2024 08:09 AM)User:21/42/3929 Wrote:  I'm having problems with the drivers on Kali Linux for my wireless dongle. The problem is running this command: sudo airodump-ng wlan0. I have already configured everything as wlan0 as Mon but the command still doesn't print any wifi networks around me, they are present, I think the problem is the age of the stick and I imagine that the drivers have no longer been updated. link of the drivers I downloaded: https: //github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU. git. Thanks in advance

you may have to initialize the out of band drive with

modprobe rtl88

then start the modern mode
(Feb 7, 2024 08:54 AM)pasnger57 Wrote:  you may have to initialize the out of band drive with

modprobe rtl88

then start the modern mode

I'll counter with
Code
lsmod | grep 8821cu.ko
Also run uname -r and make sure that you're running Linux < 6.


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