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I tend to agree. It seems though even though VB or VmwareFusion have mac compatibility, the host to guest shouldn't be an issue. Who knows. I think the best outcome would be to just use a dedicated laptop and hardware and VMs for testing. Thanks for help and appreciate the feedback.

I've tested each USB settings in VirtualBox. 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 with the wifi adapter and doesn't work for airodump-ng. At least this points me in the right direction....It has to do something with the VM compatibility with the hardware. It seems JohnDoey got it working fine with a lower version VMWare Fusion and upgraded mac os x.

hmm, perhaps I should downgrade VMWare Fusion and upgrade macosx

I too ran airmon-ng check kill but didn't do much for me. Is airodump-ng consistent after running the airmon-ng check kill command?

vmware fusion - 8.5.8 mac osx 10.11.5

Ok, I got some good news, Booted up Kali 2017.1 light on a bootable usb on my other laptop. Put in the wireless card, and dmesg and lsusb shows card is detected. airmon-ng start wlanX (X being your numbered device ) airodump-ng wlanX and APs show up! I stopped everything and tried it again and it works perfectly. This suggests to me now that this has something to do with the VMWare and VirtualBox running Kali inside a VM. Probably a setting, or doesn't read the hardware or drivers correctly ? What's your thoughts on this digip? Surely other people are experiencing this issue with the VM applications. Maybe, they are using other wifi compatible devices that work well the VM applications beside the AWUS036NEH device.

I downloaded and tried out VMware Fusion and booted the latest Kali 2017.1 light version. I booted into Kali live and still no go with the adapter. It can see the adapter and put it into monitor mode but can not pick up any APs. What revision card do I have? I'm not sure. There is nothing on the box that indicates a specific version. I know about the TL-WN722N and only version 1 is stable. I've run airmon-ng check kill and I've run all your commands as well and no luck. Do you know of any updated (or hacked) drivers for AWUS036NEH ? The current modules that get loaded upon plugging the device in are rt2800usb rt2x00usb rt2800lib rt2x00lib mac80211 cfg80211

I specifically said it's AWUS036NEH......not AC.

Hi All, I know this has probably been mentioned on the internet countless times, but I can't seem to get my AWUS036NEH adapter working with Kali Rolling. I've been at this for days and just can't get my head around it. I'm running Linux kali 4.9.0-kali4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-1kali1 (2017-06-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux. I've trawled through forums here and other places and tried various set ups to get this working with no luck, so hopefully someone here can help me out. Issue: Getting AWUS036NEH adapter to work with Kali Rolling. I can get the device on the system, but I am unable to scan APS (airodump wlan0mon). Although, after trying numerous times to get the adapter working, and keep a log of each step, airodump did work randomly once. (The steps I did will be displayed below) Setup: Kali is running on Virtualbox VM 5.1.24 Tested the following: Plugged in adapter, selected the USB device to be recognized by Virtual BOX and ran lsusb and can see the device. Please see below for what I did and got it working, but does not work anymore when I try again. This tells me, that the adapter intermittently works, but am I not understanding or missing something to get it working consistently? I have each time ran airmon-ng check kill, on each attempt to get it working. (I've set up the adapter on my MAC OS and it works perfectly fine) But as mentioned, I can't get it to work anymore, can anyone put me in the right direction or help me out? Thanks