new ALFA AWUS050NH

[Jano]

Hi,
- These are the technical characteristics of the new ALFA AWUS050NH.
- Someone has already tested this card?

Code:

Ralink RT2770F Chipset , 1x TX 2x RX (driver RT2780)
one antenna INTERNAL + EXTERNAL RP-SMA
maximum TX power:
500mW at 2.4ghz
150mW at 5ghz

Code:

The AWUS050NH IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless USB adapter provides users to launch IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network at 150/300 Mbps in the 2.4GHz/5.8GHz band, which is also compatible with IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless devices at 11/54 Mbps. You can configure AWUS050NH with ad-hoc mode to connect to other 2.4GHz/5.8GHz wireless computers, or with Infrastructure mode to connect to a wireless Access Point or Router for accessing to Internet.
AWUS050NH includes a convenient Utility for scanning available networks and saving preferred networks that users usually connected with. Security encryption can also be configured by this utility.

Features:
Compatible with IEEE 802.11n draft 3.0, 802.11a/b/g wireless standards
2.4GHz and 5.8GHz frequency band, MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output)
Complies with Universal Serial Bus Rev. 2.0 specifications
High speed transfer TX data rate up to 150 Mbps
High speed transfer RX data rate up to 300 Mbps
Supports WPS by S/W
Supports wireless data encryption with 64/128-bit WEP, WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES
Wide Range coverage
Compliant with FCC Part 15.247 for US, ETS 300 328 for Europe
Supports driver for Windows 2000, XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, and Linux (2.4.x/2.6.x), and Mac (10.4.x/10.5.x) Power PC& PC.

Specifications
Category Item Description
Standards Wireless: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n
USB 2.0 standard
Data Rate 802.11b: Up to 11 Mbps
802.11g: 54Mbps                           
802.11n: 108Mbps

Product General
Dimension 83x56mm
Interface Mini USB connector

Physical Spec.
Antenna Type 1 X 2.4/5GGHz SMA connecter and patch x1
One LED Power/Status: steady green
Wireless act: flash
Frequency
Range 2412 ~ 2462 MHz (N.A) 2412 ~ 2472`MHz (EU) 2412 ~ 2482`MHz (Japan)

IEEE802.11a: 5150 MHz – 5250 MHz (Japan) 5150 MHz – 5350 MHz / 5470 MHz－5725 MHz (Europe) 5150 MHz – 5350 MHz / 5725 MHz－5850 MHz (USA) 2412 ~ 2484 MHz (Japan)

Hardware
Opt. Channel 1 ~ 11 channels (North America), 1 ~ 13 channels (General Europe), 1 ~ 14 channels (Japan)
IEEE802.11a 4 Channels (Japan), 19 Channels (Europe), 13 Channels (USA)

Thanks Jano

[Coucamp]

hi ,i have buy this one , but i have some problem on ubuntu 9.04 and the driver rt 2870 for rt2770f , with airodump-ng ,even if the monotor mode is working ;i cant control the channel ,  and i am trying to inject but i think i need a better driver than the ralink rt2870

[Coucamp]

working fine on backtrack 3 awsome card :p

[Jano]

- I receive last week the new ALFA AWUS050NH, 

UBUNTU Hardy (Kernel 2.6.24.24)
- We need to install and modified "hirte" driver. (rt2870-2.6.25-hirte)
- All Aireplay-ng attacks work fine ("0" to "5")
- Same problem for connection with Network-Manager 0.7, but for Internet Connection is possible use a Ralink Wireless Station:





UBUNTU 9.04 (Kernel 2.6.28)
- No problem for the Internet connection with Network-Manager 0.7
- Injection do NOT work with default driver. (work with driver "apocolipse") 

- I think that with some modifications, the card functions correctly.
- Next week, I send one card to .NetRoller 3D, for optimizer drivers.

Bye Jano

[scarfays]

hello!
I, too, the new Alfa 500mW AWUS050NH
there is already 1 month, but it is not at top
4 backtrack on it does not, the search channel remains blocked
I have contact ALFA network for more
he said on the problem and not buy the 1st alfa
I Tried
There are actually 2 version of the AWUS050NH
must be open to watch what color is the PCB card inside
Version 1 a la carte blue PCB, so v1
and version 2 which settles several default, a la carte blue PCB, so the v2

they say it can give me the v2 so we'll see if it really works better
more

[Mister_X]

you don't need to open it, the FCC did it already. Just find the fcc id and go to the fcc website to get internal pictures (PDF): https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm

[.NetRolller 3D]

Mister_X: Apparently the 050NH is not yet FCC-approved... Or at least it doesn't seem to be up on the ID search page.

[Jano]

Mister_X: Apparently the 050NH is not yet FCC-approved... Or at least it doesn't seem to be up on the ID search page.

- I Confirm .NetRolller 3D,
- The FCC code, is not indicated on the card.

By Jano

[Mister_X]

.NetRolller3D, yes should be FCC approved, it has a FCC logo on it but Jano is right, there's no fcc id.

[Zermelo]

Just to update, as Jano already noted the Alfa AWUS050NH works fine on BT3 with the modified hirte driver, there was a problem with newer kernels, but apocolipse269 has a new driver out for kernels 2.6.27+, and it works fine now on BT4.

You can download the rt2870 drivers from this thread:

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bt4beta-working-hardware/23343-rt2870-bt4-guide-working.html#post136476

Direct Link to download driver: http://www.filefactory.com/file/af31fg2/n/rt2870-2_6_28-apocolipse_tar_gz

Since the Alfa's hex number appears in the driver already, no modification is necessary.  Just "make clean", "make" and "make install".

The performance of the  AWUS050NH so far is comparable to the original AWUS036H as far as my testing has shown.  Be interested in anyone else's results.

[Jano]

Hi Zermelo,
- I confirm that the driver "apocolipse", on Jaunty, works fine for injection, but not for connection with Network-Manager.
- Also seems that there is a problem to change the mac address, have you tried?

Jano

[Zermelo]

Hi Zermelo,
- I confirm that the driver "apocolipse", on Jaunty, works fine for injection, but not for connection with Network-Manager.
- Also seems that there is a problem to change the mac address, have you tried?

Jano

I already knew from apocolipse's post that it wouldn't connect with network manager (maybe with wpa_supplicant?) and I'm at work, so I haven't had time to give it a full test, except for -1 -2 -5 -3 -4 attacks, so I didn't notice any issues with changing the mac.  When I get home I'll give it a full test and report back.

[Zermelo]

Update.  I'm sure anyone with this adapter has seen this already, but the new Alfa also works quite well with the compact wireless drivers natively.

This thread on remote-exploit forums has a nice tutorial: http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bt4beta-working-hardware/23407-alfa-awus050nh-rt2x00-compat-wireless.html#post136784

Tested and confirmed. All major attacks work.  The wiki should be updated with this information.

I would actually say these drivers seem to be working a bit more smoothly than apocolipse269.  On my x64 Intrepid box the apocolipse269 drivers would lock the computer although they compiled fine, the compact drivers appear to work much more smoothly.

EDIT: With some more testing, there appears to be some small stability on x64 environments, at least on my x64 box (Intrepid 8.10).  The box locked up after injecting about 10000 packets on one try, and airmon-ng seems to be given some weird output:

Code:

zermelo@Narzugon:~$ sudo airmon-ng stop wlan3


Interface Chipset Driver

wlan1 Intel 4965/5xxx iwlagn - [phy0]
[: 1120: 1: unexpected operator
[: 1120: 1: unexpected operator
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[: 1120: 1: unexpected operator
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wlan3 Unknown lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-06-15 06:05 /sys/class/net/wlan3/device/driver -> ../../../../../../bus/usb/drivers/
                                                                  �00usb - [phy2]
(monitor mode disabled)

However, this does not appear to affect it's performance once it is injecting stably.  On subsequent attempts, it injected without lock-ups.  I haven't had a lot of time to test it out, but I will report any more issues as they arise, but all attacks appear to be working correctly.

[Jano]

Hi Zermelo,
- For me the only major problem is to change mac-address. (i use rt2870sta driver).
- This is not good for some situations with wep-encryption and for use "Tkiptun-ng".

UPDATE
Test with latest Compact-Wireless and driver rt2x00 (rt2800usb)
conditions: Ubuntu 9.04 - Kernel 2.6.28-11-generic

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- Work without problems, with Network-Manager (wep/wpa) and Macchanger.

TUTORIAL
http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=5755.0

Bye Jano

[.NetRolller 3D]

BTW rt2800usb will also be my target driver once Jano's card arrives here.