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I recently bought 3 cheap'ish wifi dongles and wanted to see how they'd do with "aircrack" in Kali Linux. I had difficulty getting any of them to work in Kali Linux 2.0 so this blog post contains Kali Linux 1.0 instructions.

1. "150Mbps High Speed USB Wireless Wifi 802.11n"
Chipset: Realtek 8179 (R8188EU)
Drivers: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu
Instructions:

# none - monitor mode doesn't work :(

2. "EDUP EP-N8537"
Chipset: Ralink RT5370
Drivers: already installed
Instructions:

airmon-ng start wlan1
airodump-ng mon0

3. "Totolink N150UA 150Mbps Wireless N USB Router" Chipset: Ralink 7601
Drivers: see instructions below
Comments: most of the instructions below came from this discussion thread: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=49864&start=175
Instructions:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t linux-headers-`uname -r` git
cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/hypn/MT7601.git
cd MT7601/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913
make && sudo make install
insmod os/linux/mt7601Usta.ko
sudo ifconfig ra0 promisc
airodump-ng ra0