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How can you change an Ethernet connection to a connection with an external Wi-Fi adapter?

I was trying to execute airmon-ng and airodump-ng commands in Kali Linux virtual machine, and then figured out that since my laptop had an in-built Ethernet port, the terminal couldn't detect any type ...
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USB Ethernet adapter disconnecting on Windows 11 and DELL Inspiron 5370 2-in-1

The model "DELL Inspiron 5379 2-in-1" does not officially support Windows 11. However, I upgraded anyway, and the result is so far, so good in most parts. However, the USB Ethernet adapter ...
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Windows does not differentiate between Ethernet adapters of same model

I try to connect to several physically divided Networks with different net-masks. Because I often need to connect to more than one simultaneously I want to setup and leave one Ethernet adapter with ...
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Creating network bridge sometimes (but not always) fails with error "an unexpected error occurred while configuring the network bridge"

I am currently trying to set up multiple identical systems. All are using WIndows 10 LTSC 2019 as operating system, and have three Intel I210 NICs installed. What I am trying to do is to manually ...
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Can I use a USB Wireless Adapter to receive WIFI 6 on an old laptop?

My apartment only provide WIFI 6 network. But my wireless network adapter driver version was around 2017.x, which is too old for WIFI 6. Plus the system version of my laptop is also too old, I cannot ...
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My Realtek RTL8152 adapter doesn't work in Kali Linux

I have a Realtek RTL8152 ethernet to usb adapter but it doesn't work with my kali even after installing its drivers. I know it is not broken because when i use it with my windows machine it works ...
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Is it safe to connect external USB 2.0 hard drive to laptop via USB to USB-C adapter

My Lenovo P15 Gen 1 laptop has 3 USB-C connectors: A single USB-C (3.2 Gen 1) connector Two Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB-C) connectors Is it safe to connect "standard" USB-2/3 external hard drives (...
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NIC/mobo affect the speed of the USB-RJ45 Gigabit Adapter?

I need to use my gigabit fiber on my Sleekbook 15, but I'm limited to 100mbps thru the RJ45 by the laptop's NIC. I can't upgrade my 2.4GHz RT3290 (~50mbps) wifi card with a better one because, ...
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Using of Alfa AWUS036NHA adapter

I bought an "Alfa AWUS036NHA" USB Wi-Fi adapter today. Is it possible to use this Alfa AWUS036NHA as router?
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maximum number of NIC(Network Interface Controller) connection?

I'd like to know if there's maximum number of NIC connected in a Windows PC. By expanding USB 3.0 ports and connecting a lot of USB 3.0 type network adapter into it, can we connect limitless number ...
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Ping between 2 connected LAN adapters on same PC?

I have 2 1Gbps USB Ethernet dongles on the same PC that are cabled together, and I'd like to ping (and maybe iperf) between them to quickly verify performance. I've assigned them different static ...
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How does an usb to ethernet adapter work [closed]

How does such adapter work? I am using this kind of adapter right now. It came with a cd with an installable driver. On windows XP I had to install the driver in order for it to work. On Linux ...
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Give docker container access to usb wireless adapter

I have a wireless usb adapter and I would like my docker container to use just this for the internet (not the computers own wireless adapter). My knowledge of networking is basic so I have tried to ...
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How fast does my wireless adapter need to be compared to my internet speed?

I am looking to buy a wireless adapter for my desktop and there is a plethora of options online. They all offer different speeds, varying from 150 Mbps to 1200+ Mbps, but most of them describe speeds ...
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Setting up TP-LINK TL-WN727N on kali linux

Yesterday I posted this thread on Stackoverflow but it appeared to be off-topic there and I was redirected to Superuser. I'm posting this thread with unchanged content here. I hope that someone will ...
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AWUS036NHA Wireless Network Adapter random shutdown

I've recently bought an AWUS036NHA USB Wireless Network Adapter for my Windows 10 64-bit PC and I've found myself in a recurring problem. Sometimes the Network Adapter seems to shutdown: the WiFi is ...
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USB Ethernet to my machine rather than RJ45 NIC Cards

I have a 7 node cluster setup in my organization and they all have dual port Ethernet NICs on them, running Ubuntu 14.04.4. Each machine is connected to two networks at the same time. Requirement: I ...
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Delaying assignment of IP-address until network adapter device is available

I'm working on a custom embedded board with three Ethernet interfaces: eth0 and eth1 are built-in to the CPU (a TI AM3356) eth2 is made with an on-board LAN9512 chip (using the smsc95xx driver), ...
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No networks found upon returning to original location

The oddest thing is happening with my network connection. I can work on it fine at home, and then I bring it to school and it connects automatically to that network too. But then when I get back home.....
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Very slow Internet speed after switching to a Netgear CG3100D-2BPAUS

I’ve been having stable internet ever since I’ve gotten a Belkin n300 wireless USB adapter. However, after switching from Optus to Telstra internet, the download speeds dropped to below 0.5mbits/s ...
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How to identify which USB devices are mapped to what network interface names?

When I plug in an USB network, it gets assigned a network name, like wlan1 by udev. Is there a way how to determine the mapping, without going through udev files, like /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-...
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"USB Device is busy with previous request. Please Try again later"

USB wireless network adapter not working in Virtual Box kali machine. What to do? It always gives a message that "USB Device is busy with previous request. Please Try again later"
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Will upgrading my USB-to-ethernet adapter to USB 3.0 make any difference?

My super-slim ultrabook has one USB 2.0, one USB 3.0 port, and zero ethernet ports. It came with a USB 2.0-to-ethernet adapter and it works just fine in either port. I have noticed that USB 3.0 ...
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Why won't any USB wireless adapters work on my PC?

I have tried 5 different wireless USB adapters on my PC, all ranging between £15 and £80, they all state Windows 7 x64 compatible, but none of them worked properly. The message comes up saying new ...
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Use 2 wireless adapters to connect to 2 WIFI networks (local and internet) simultaneously?

On my HP Compaq 6710b there's an internal WIFI network adapter. Attached to the same laptop there's also an external USB Alfa WIFI adapter. I live near campus and can pick it's WIFI signal. The ...
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Installing driver for asus usb-n13 on win7 without disk

The problem is - the ZIP files from asus support site contain a bunch of .sys and .inf files(Tried right click->install them, resulted in error), and sometimes an Asus utility as well(tried installing ...
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USB wireless adapter driver for Ubuntu

I lost the CD with driver to my USB wireless adapter and Ubuntu does not recognize my adapter. The sad thing is, I don't even know the manufacturer or brand of my adapter. It is just a small little ...
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Connect VirtualBox to a different internet connection

At the moment, I have my host machine setup to access the internet using the main ethernet connection via a NIC. I have a VM which currently has it's network settings set to NAT, this allows the ...
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Cannot install SUPERAL 9600 USB Ethernet Card KY-RS9600 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Summary I cannot use a SUPERAL 9600 USB Ethernet Card KY-RS9600 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, although there are drivers for it on Internet and in its driver CD. Beginning I bought a JP108 USB ...
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Why device manager is showing 4 Network adapters and how to remove them?

I am seeing 4 network adapters in Device manager. What are these? I don't think i have all these adapters. What are these virtual wifi miniport adapters ? I remember i removed them but i am seeing ...
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Ubuntu (11.10) fails to connect to wireless network

I just installed ubuntu 11.10, and tried to have it connect to the internet. I use a wireless USB stick by edimax (it is called IEEE802.11b/g/n nano USB adapter or also EW-7811Un). My problem is ...
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How to get rid of auto-generated sequence number in network's device name in Windows?

Every time one plugs in the same usb wireless adapter in a new usb port, Windows creates new network device with auto-generated sequence number which looks like this Wireless-N USB Network Adapter #2, ...
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