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.

Zaid Sabih

Ethical Hacker, Pentester & Computer Scientist

My name is Zaid Al-Quraishi, I am an ethical hacker, a computer scientist, and the founder and CTO of zSecurity. I just love hacking and breaking the rules, but don’t get me wrong as I said I am an ethical hacker. I studied computer science in University College Dublin, I graduated in may 2016. I have a very good experience in ethical hacking, I started making video tutorials back in 2009 in an ethical hacking community (iSecuri1ty.org), I also worked as a pentester for the same company. In 2013 I started teaching my first course online in Arabic, this course received amazing feedback which motivated me to create an English version of this course. The english course became the most popular and the top paid course in Udemy for almost a year, this motivated me to make more courses on ethical hacking, now I have a number of courses on ethical hacking and more than 200,000 students on Udemy and other teaching platforms such as StackSocial, StackSkills and zSecurity.

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    2 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)

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