Installing Drivers for RealTek RTL8812AU on Kali Linux & Testing Monitor Mode & Packet Injection

One of the best chipsets that support monitor mode and packet injection for both 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz frequencies is the RealTek RTL8812AU, this makes adapters with chipset ideal for hacking, the only problem is this chipset is not natively supported by Kali Linux, therefore we need to install its drivers first before using it.

This video shows how to install the drivers for this chipset and enable monitor mode on it.

You can use the steps shown with ANY adapter that uses this chipset regardless of its brand.

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Zaid Sabih

Ethical Hacker, Pentester & Computer Scientist

Zaid Al-Quraishi is an ethical hacker, computer scientist, and founder of zSecurity. He studied CS at UCD, graduating May 2016.

Zaid has a strong background and experience in ethical hacking, starting with tutorials in 2009 in an ethical hacking community, iSecur1ty. He also worked as a penetration tester (pentester) for this company.

In 2013 he started teaching his first course online in Arabic which received extremely positive feedback. This motivated him to create an English version of the course. The English course became the most popular and top paid course on Udemy for almost a year, which further motivated Zaid to design and teach more courses on ethical hacking.

He now offers a number of courses on ethical hacking and more than 800,000 students on Udemy and other teaching platforms such as StackSocial, StackSkills and zSecurity.

Zaid says: "I just love hacking and breaking the rules but don't get me wrong, I am an ethical hacker!"

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    5 Comments

  1. Fadi Hamdan
    September 12, 2018

    Dear Zaid,
    Hello how are? I’m facing a problem with Realtek RTL8812AU (Alfa AWUS036ACH), when I took the handshake and try to do (evil twin attack) its stuck on (fluxion)

    [*] Starting Captive Portal Access point service …

    and nothing happened, so please help me Please
    many thanks

  2. lawdt
    November 18, 2018

    Hi i try to use AWUS036ACH on KALI linux 2018.4 using driver realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms on Virtualbox on MacOS, and i have a problem.
    after i install driver, wifi adapter just disconnect from USB, and i need to plug put and plug in to power up device back.
    i check dmesg, no any informational message, just information about disconnect device.
    after disconnect, i do not see ALFA in usb device list (for click on usb icon in virtualbox)

  3. Raj ram
    July 1, 2020

    Hi zaid sir i try to install AWUS036ACH on Kali Linux but i am facing small problem in my Kali machine.
    E: Unable to locate package realtek-rtl8812au-dkms

    They show this error How to fix this error.

  4. SANDEEP
    July 27, 2020

    Hi Zaid,

    When I am trying to scan for networks using Fluxion with my AWUS036ACH Network Adapter, it says my wireless card is not supported. Is there a way to fix it ?

    Kindly Advise.
    Regards,
    Sandeep

  5. morpheuslord
    February 20, 2021

    can i do this for the Realtek 8821CE wificard

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