Recommendations for a USB Wi-Fi adapter for testing monitor-mode support in libpcap/WinPcap

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

I have a collection of VMware Fusion virtual machines that I use for libpcap/WinPcap development.

Until recently, I was able to test monitor-mode support by plugging in a Belkin Wireless G adapter (with a Zydas chip) 
into my Mac and telling Fusion to connect it to the virtual machine.

That no longer works with VMware Fusion 8.1.1 on OS X El Capitan - my Linux virtual machines, for example, get USB 
errors trying to upload the firmware, and the Windows virtual machine has no better luck even with the vendor driver.  
I don't know whether 1) the upgrade to El Capitan, 2) the upgrade to Fusion 8, or 3) upgrades to the guest OSes are the 
problem here.

The adapter is also a bit behind the times, as it only does 11g, not 11m or 11ac.

Does anybody know of a VMware Fusion issue here, and, if so, do they know a way to work around it?

If not, does anybody have any recommendations for a USB Wi-Fi adapter that:

        1) has driver support on reasonably recent Linux kernels, {Free,Net,Open}BSD, and Windows, preferably with 
monitor-mode support on Linux (preferably with a mac80211 driver) and *BSD;

        2) preferably supports at least 802.11n?

(I'd ask for adapters known to work with Fusion, but I suspect 99 44/100% of the people here would be using the 
adapters on real machines rather than Fusion virtual machines.)
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