AR9271 802.11n 150Mbps Wireless USB WiFi Adapter WLAN Network Card for Kali Linux/Linux/Ubuntu/CD Linux/Windows 7/8/10/Centos

This little thing was great! It’s cheap and arrived quickly before my road trip.I could not find my “expensive” USB WiFi dongle and antenna. This saved the day for me when I was up against the clock.

Works great out of the box with Kali Linux and Nethunter, no drivers necessary. Packet injection works great on 2.4GHz networks, and I was able to capture handshakes relatively quickly

Works out of the box with Linux kernals. Particularly Kali, and that's through a proxmox vm. It actually seems that direct passthrough for the device works the best, which makes sense, but sucks since I can't share it to other machines on my "ranch".Definitely not for speed but is a capable little device. I do have disable and re-enable the device if it goes unused but that might be power saving on my motherboard or just proxmox itself.Other than that, good purchase. THIS WORKS WITH KALI AS OF 10/6/24 - remember though always check your chipsets :D

The Atheros 9271 has been known for about 10 years as the best hacker friendly USB wifi chipset. Then they disappeared, they designed a disappointing hacker unfriendly v.2...this is the first brand new batch I've seen in at least 7-8 years. 12$ and they still out-perform a few of my Alfa's (cost about 5-6X the $). This isn't the best housing, it seems cheap plastic but it came with plastic film still on it, LEDs work, and the chipset...on 2.4ghz (and only 2.4ghz) I still don't think there's a better toolbag USB wifi to have around for "auditing" pulls handshakes extremely quick, injection is still probably more reliable than modern expensive cards...I was amazed at the range of "auditing" it is still amazing at. For a daily driver, for anything, or for nothing...for 12$ you could buy these and stash them away till this new batch disappears and sell them for 50$ a pop to people in cyber sec communities.

Should be noted that this is not compatible with windows 11

Works perfectly and as advertised. If you intend to use it in Windows 10/11, install it then go to Windows Update | Additional Drivers to install the required Windows driver. There is NO need to search for the manufacturer's website and download from there. Windows will install the proper driver under Windows Update. The 1-star reviews about no driver are simply wrong.My GNU/Linux Parrot OS Security Edition distro running under VMWare recognized it immediately and connected...no external driver had to be installed.Under Parrot, I commanded Monitor mode in Airgeddon and proceeded to test against my wireless router. Worked perfectly. Promptly received a handshake using attack vector #2.Inexpensive. Works as designed. Great value.

While plug and play dongles are common for Windows, those of us who prefer Linux have to deal with the many dongles that require VERY complicated and/or unreliable installation. This device is economical, well-made, and is truly plug and play.What a relief! To be fair this unit is made to the 802.11n standard (150 mb/s, 2.4Ghz), but that is quite enough, not to mention - again - plug n play, and inexpensive. I spent hours trying to find a faster PnP unit, but there isn't one. It speed tests fine, good numbers, solid and reliable.Add to this it's antenna, easy disassembly, this is a unit you can carry with you and use to replace a failing WIFI adaptor, or to amplify signal in sketchy locations.

worked great for a few weeks - light use as an adapter for a streaming integrated amp, then just stopped working one day. disappointed this was 1 day after the return window closed.