Description
For wireless penetration testing (such as capturing handshakes or deauthenticating users), a Wi-Fi adapter must support two critical features:
1. Monitor Mode: The ability to listen to all wireless traffic in the air, not just traffic directed to your machine. 2. Packet Injection: The ability to generate and introduce custom frames (like deauthentication packets) into a wireless network.
The Archer T2U Plus uses the Realtek RTL8821AU chipset. While the native Linux kernel drivers do not support monitor mode or packet injection for this chipset, the cybersecurity community has built custom drivers that enable both capabilities perfectly.