- In this video, I'm gonna show you the differences
between a version one
and a V2, V3 TP-LINK TL-WN722N wifi adapter.
And I'm gonna show you how
to get the version two, version three adapter working
by installing the correct drivers on Kali Linux.
In a previous video, I showed you how to do that,
but the process was very convoluted.
It's much, much easier today.
The steps that I show you here may also apply
to other adapters such as this one,
the TL-WN725N wifi adapter.
Okay, without further ado,
let me show you a version one adapter
and show you the differences
between that and a version two, version three adapter.
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Now, one of the big differences
between a version one adapter
and say the version two version three adapter
is that monitor mode is available by default
with a version one adapter.
Monitor mode and packet injection is not available
with a version two, version three adapter by default.
You have to install the correct drivers.
So to demonstrate that, let's take a version one adapter.
I'll plug it into my computer.
In this example, I'm running Kali Linux
within VMware Workstation Player on a Windows 11 computer.
I'll connect the adapter to Kali.
I'll open up a terminal and type "iwconfig".
As you can see, wlan0 is shown.
Its mode is managed mode.
"lsusb" shows us the chipset for this adapter.
Notice AR9271.
So this is the version one adapter.
A different chip set is used in version two
but just to show you what happens, I'll run wifite.
You could use airmon-ng or something else to do this test
but wifite makes us very easy.
So I'll put my password in,
and what you'll notice is monitor mode is enabled
on the wifi adapter and various wifi networks are displayed.
And then I could, as an example,
attack one of those wifi networks.
So as an example, I'll attack number five,
which is this little TP-LINK wifi router.
Only ever attack wifi networks that you own
or have permission to attack.
Do not attack networks
that you don't have permission to attack.
But in this example, I'll attack that network.
I'll stop that here because we've proven the point
that monitor mode has been enabled on that wifi adapter.
But let's try something similar
with the version two, version three adapter.
How does this act differently?
So I'll plug that into the computer.
Again, I'll connect the adapter to Kali Linux.
"iwconfig" in this case shows me
that wlan0 is in managed mode.
Notice that is different to what we saw previously.
We didn't see that kind of output here.
Previously, we saw this when we used "lsusb".
Now "lsusb" shows us
that this TP-LINK adapter version two,
version three is using the Realtek chipset.
And this is important because this is the driver
that we are going to install.
But notice what happens when I run wifite now.
It picks up wlan0.
This is the driver. This is the chipset.
But notice monitor mode fails.
We cannot find any interfaces in monitor mode.
So I'll run wifite with a kill option,
just to kill all conflicting processes.
But notice "Enabling monitor mode failed".
The difference here is that this version two,
version three adapter doesn't support monitor
and injection mode by default.
So what we're gonna do is type "sudo apt update"
to update our references.
And notice this, RTL8188EUS.
The command we are going to now use to install
the correct drivers is this,
"sudo apt install -y" to install the software
without a prompt, realtek-rtl8188eus-dkms.
So hopefully, just with that one command,
I should be able to update the drivers
on my Kali Linux virtual machine
and then I should be able to use the adapter.
Now I've had problems where you have
to reboot the virtual machine
before the drivers start working.
So I'll do that in a moment.
But notice the drivers are installed.
This is a lot simpler than the previous method
that I demonstrated using the video that I've linked below.
That was a lot harder.
This is basically two commands.
Reboot the computer and monitoring
and injection should work using a version two
or version three adapter.
Okay, so that's done.
Now if I type "lsusb",
notice we're still using the Realtek TP-LINK version two,
version three adapter.
sudo wifite.
Notice I'm having the same problem.
So what I'm gonna do now is "sudo shutdown reboot now"
to reboot Kali Linux.
Okay, I'll log in with my username and password.
Open up a terminal, "iwconfig".
We can see that it's the Realtek adapter.
"sudo wifite -kill" or put in my password,
and notice that's now working.
So I'll break that.
Notice this adapter, version two, version three
has now been put into monitoring mode
and I can see various wifi networks
and then I could attack my little TP network once again.
Okay, I'll stop that.
Okay, so there you go.
I've shown you how to install the correct drivers
for a version two, version three TP-LINK network adapter.
I showed you by default
that version one supports monitoring mode
and injection mode.
So if I connect the version one adapter, again.
"lsusb".
You can see we back to the version one adapter.
"sudo wifite --kill".
We can put the adapter into monitor mode, and that works.
And let's try again
with a version two, version three adapter.
Connect that to Kali.
"sudo wifite" again.
You can see that this is a version two,
version three adapter that's now being put
into monitor mode.
So that works successfully.
Okay, so there you go.
I've shown you how to get a version two,
version three adapter working with Kali Linux.
In this example, I'm using 2023.1.
Process is a lot simpler than in the past.
Version one adapters work by default
but version two, version three don't.
I don't recommend that you use these adapters.
I recommend that you use an alpha adapter.
I've put my favorite adapters below based
on the discussions with multiple people in the industry
as well as some of the developers of Kali Linux.
Those are the adapters that I'd recommend that you get.
I'll also create an updated video showing you more adapters
and more options.
Hopefully enjoy this video.
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I'm David Bombal and I wanna wish you all the very best.
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