I followed the steps you mentioned but not able to get the Alpha adapter detected and work in Kali Linux. Do this for each .pem) usually just 2 files just highlight them and copy from 1 folder to the other if you got lost remember that both the crda-1.1.3 folder and the wireless-regdb-2013.02.13 will both be inside the wifichanges folder located in you home root it dosn't get any easier than that

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It should be recognized just fine using a pen-drive, and you should have even less issues than passing it through a VM After letting this run for a while, I had a fair amount of SSIDs and beacons detected! Unfortunately, nothing in my immediate vicinity was running WEP. I tried everything on this post without success, the blinking green icon on the USB controller wasn't happening for me.The HA was typically giving a signal strength, on the Engenius AP, of around -78 to -82. As low as -90db.

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That said, I ran into some issues with the default filter, so I had to create a blank filter with the proper values.I highly..::.. advise doing this in a VM till someone who knows more about this than I do can confirm it wont break anything in future. Can you verify for me what your USB connections are by going to Devices -> USB in the VirtualBox menu?

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AWUS036NHA (TP-LINK Wireless USB Adapter) switches between systems without any problems. at boot VB Kali - disconnected from Win10 and connect to Kali, after Kali shutdown, device connected to Win and show in device manager again.Do you know if AWUS036NHA with 9dpi antenna will give a longer range of clients than TP-Link-TL-WN722N?