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It's not for the faint of heart or faint of technical skill - different drivers have different behaviors and ways to enter the various capture and raw packet modes needed to do this.

Personally, as long as I stick to supported chipsets, I've almost never had an issue.

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Have you found a wifi card that will work on any laptop or desktop?

I've had great luck with this wireless card. Works out of the box on any linux distro I've used it with. I bought it specifically for its aircrack compatibility (packet injection and monitor mode).

https://www.amazon.com/Alfa-AWUSO36NH-Wireless-Long-Rang-Net...

although some of the reviews seem to indicate there may have been a change in chipset/drivers. I wish you luck!

Not all Alfa products are OOB compatible, you definitely need to be careful. I have the AWUS036AC which requires compiling a DKMS module.

It was a pain the get working on my Raspberry Pi, I had to try several different drivers and edit a Makefile to get it to compile. But I did eventually get it working as an AP, there's a script called create_ap which is very nice to painlessly run an AP on Linux.

Thanks I was looking for something that could work on Mac, Linux, Pi and Windows.

The stuff from

https://tehnoetic.com (EU)

https://www.thinkpenguin.com (USA)

just works.

I tested some of the most popular Kali Linux compatible cards against each other here[0]. Note that there is a version 2 of the popular and cheap TP-Link TL-WN722N which DOES NOT work like the version 1 and should be avoided.

All of these cards are "known to just work" on linux at least.

[0] http://rooftopbazaar.com/wirelesscards/

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