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The Alfa still isn't finding APs in monitor mode. In managed mode it can connect to APs and get on their networks, but airmon-ng/wash scans still turn up blanks. I installed/uninstalled a couple iterations of Backports. That didn't change anything. This inability to function in monitor mode on virtualized installs seems a fairly common hit-or-miss problem with AWUS036NEH adapters. This weekend I'll try setting kali up on a PC laptop to see if it's the adapter or the virtual environment causing issues.

Thanks for the tips. There's still something fishy going on with the alfa. I dug out a rtl8187 I had at my studio. That's working fine with everything in kali 2.0 as a vmware guest in os x 10.9.5. My pineapple MK5 is also interfacing correctly with my kali install. Some other forums discuss circumstances under which older or modified drivers for the alfa had to be used under kali 1.0, and I guess they were included in some later distros as fallback options. Have any of you had to use those under kali 2.0?

Has anyone had any trouble getting this alfa to discover APs in Kali 2.0 when loaded as a VMWare* guest OS? Neither wash nor airodump-ng discover APs. The issue seems to be one reported in a number of forums without any resolution. airmon-ng sees the alfa. i can set it into monitor mode with: ifconfig wlan0mon down iwconfig wlan0mon mode monitor ifconfig wlan0mon up but it then scans its lonely, empty scans until i stop them. if anyone has experienced this and resolved it or has any ideas, i'd be grateful to hear them. thank you. *vmware fusion 7.1.2 with vmware tools updated in kali.