Cards and Chipsets

In airgeddon<=8.10, only airmon compatible wireless cards are supported. If your card is unable to change its mode by performing an airmon command out of airgeddon, it won't work. From airgeddon>=8.11 any card can be used if the monitor mode is supported, but depending on the driver, some problems may occur.

Rating legend: --- Best --- 😍 😄 ☺️ 😐 😞 --- Worst ---

Whitelist

Ordered by users' rating, some known compatible and fully working VIF capable chipsets/cards (Whitelist, recommended):

Users' rating	Generation	Chipset	Card/s using it	Band/s	Interface	Link/Buy	Additional comments
😍	Wifi6e	Mediatek MT7921AUN	Alfa AWUS036AXML	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz / 6Ghz	USB	Link	Includes bluetooth chipset. Not working on Parrot OS (vm or native)
😍	Wifi6e	Mediatek MT7921AUN	Alfa AWUS036AXM	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz / 6Ghz	USB	Link	Not working on Parrot OS (vm or native)
😍	Wifi5	MediaTek MT7612U	Alfa AWUS036ACM	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz	USB	Link	Not recommended for Virtual Machines if your host is Windows, only Native Linux or Linux VM at Linux host. Recommended kernel >= 5.3 . For Rpi 2/3 run this command to get it working echo "options mt76_usb disable_usb_sg=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/mt76_usb.conf
😍	Wifi5	Ralink RT5572	Panda PAU07 / Panda PAU09	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz	USB	Link
😄	Wifi4	Atheros AR9271	Alfa AWUS036NHA / TP-Link TL-WN722N v1	2.4Ghz	USB	Link	Works like a charm, but is old stuff
😄	Wifi4	Ralink RT5370	Panda PAU04	2.4Ghz	USB	Link	Works like a charm, but is old stuff
😄	Wifi4	Ralink RT5372	D-Link DWA-137 / Panda PAU06	2.4Ghz	USB	Link	Works like a charm, but is old stuff
☺️	Wifi4	MediaTek MT7610U	Alfa AWUS036ACHM / TP-Link Archer T2UH	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz	USB	Link
☺️	Wifi4	Ralink RT3572	Alfa AWUS052NHS / Linksys AE1000	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz	USB	Link
☺️	Wifi4	Ralink RT3070	TP-Link TL-WN7200ND / Alfa AWUS036NH	2.4Ghz	USB	Link
😐	Wifi4	Ralink RT2770	Alfa AWUS051NH	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz	USB	Link
😐	Wifi5	Intel L716NA02	Intel Wireless-AC 9560 card	2.4Ghz / 5Ghz	PCIe	Link
😐	Wifi4	Realtek RTL8723BE	Realtek RTL8723BE card	2.4Ghz	PCIe	Link

Of course, there are more compatible and fully working chipsets, these are only some examples. Moreover, there are more cards and devices using the chipsets listed here as well. We list only some examples of cards to buy which are using fully working VIF (Multiple Virtual Interface) capable chipsets.

Greylist

Ordered alphabetically, VIF capable chipsets but they are giving some problems and depending on driver and kernel can work. They require patched drivers (Greylist, not recommended):

• Atheros AR9170 <- present in TP-Link TL-WN822N v1 (2.4Ghz - USB)
• Intel AX201 <- present integrated in many laptops (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - PCIe)
• Realtek RTL8187 <- present in Alfa AWUS036H / Alfa AWUS036EW (2.4Ghz - USB)
• Realtek RTL8821CE <- present in Realtek RTL8821CE card (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - PCIe)
• Realtek RTL8822CE <- present in Realtek RTL8822CE card (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - PCIe)

Blacklist

Ordered alphabetically, chipsets with known problems or non-VIF capable chipsets/cards (Blacklist, not recommended at all):

• Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 <- present integrated in many laptops (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - PCIe)
• MediaTek MT7601U <- present in some unbranded cheap chinese dongles (2.4Ghz - USB)
• MediaTek MT7921 <- present integrated in many laptops (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - PCIe)
• Realtek RTL8188EU/S <- present in TP-Link TL-WN722N v2/v3 / Alfa AWUS036NHV (2.4Ghz - USB)
• Realtek RTL8811AU <- present in some unbranded cheap chinese dongles (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - USB)
• Realtek RTL8812AU <- present in Alfa AWUS036ACH (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - USB)
• Realtek RTL8812BU <- present in Comfast CF-913AC (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - USB)
• Realtek RTL8814AU <- present in TP-LINK Archer T9UH / Alfa AWUS1900 (2.4Ghz / 5Ghz - USB)

These chipsets/cards are causing problems when working with airmon. As a consequence there are problems when working with airgeddon too. There are some reasons: airmon compatibility and available drivers. There are some closed issues discussing different problems while using them. We recommend to don't use these cards.

Realtek partial fix

One community member worked hard in a solution for Realtek chipset based cards creating a plugin to fix the different behavior of these cards due the drivers. It was already released. Check Wiki Plugins Hall of Fame Section for more info. The plugin is valid for airgeddon=v10.0 but if you have airgeddon>=10.01 the plugin is not needed anymore because the fix was already included in the core code. Anyway, the plugin fixes the known problems for mode switching but there still are other problems not related to airgeddon that may consist in WPS failure, errors creating fake APs or non effective DoS during Evil Twin attacks due to lack of VIF capability. That problems are directly related to the hardware or the driver and airgeddon can't do anything to deal with that.