Problem with rt3070 Chipset in Kali

Dec 10, 2014 04:36 PM

Hello readers,

How is everyone? I'm a little moody.

So i installed Kali Linux 1.0.9(Debian) on Virtualbox and I bought an USB wireless adapter AWUSO36NH with chipset rt3070.

Installing

I installed the rt3070 windows driver for my host windows 7 OS: http://www.powerwifi.nl/nl/drivers

On my VM I installed the rt2870sta driver for linux:

http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/rt2870usbrt2870rt2770/

From there I did the following:

  1. I ran the apt-get update & apt-get isntall linux headers commands.
  2. I blacklisted the rt2800usb and changed WPASUPPLICANT & NATIVEWPASUPPLICANT to = Y'
  3. I changed few other settings to succesfully run the 'make & make install' commands, and i did 'modprobe rt2870sta'.
  4. I installed the mod 'insmod rt2870sta.ko' and rebooted.

Problem

So from the several tutorials that i read on installing the drivers, it would seem like I installed the drivers correctly and should be able to use my adapter on Kali. But when I start up Kali from my VM, connect my usb adapter and disconnect it from my host OS, it doesn't seem to work.

root@kali:~# lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

root@kali:~# iwconfig

eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

When i go to settings>devices>usb-devices it shows that my Ralink 802.11n WLAN0101 is connected.

I honestly have no clue on what I may have done wrong. I hope you guys can help me figure this out.

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