[The_Sponge]

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.

[wil421]

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

[bebopfunk]

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!

[rhinoceraptor]

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.

[wil421]

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

[madez]

The stuff from

https://tehnoetic.com (EU)

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

just works.

[proctor]

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/