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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

By : Cameron Buchanan, Vivek Ramachandran
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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Second Edition

4.5 (44)
By: Cameron Buchanan, Vivek Ramachandran

Overview of this book

If you are a security professional, pentester, or anyone interested in getting to grips with wireless penetration testing, this is the book for you. Some familiarity with Kali Linux and wireless concepts is beneficial.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Time for action – configuring your wireless card

We will be using the wireless adapter with the penetration tester's laptop.

Please follow these instructions step-by-step to set up your card:

  1. Plug in the card to one of the Kali laptop's USB ports and boot it.

    Once you log in, open a console terminal and type in iwconfig. Your screen should look as follows:

    Time for action – configuring your wireless card

    As you can see, wlan0 is the wireless interface created for the wireless adapter. Type in ifconfig wlan0 to bring the interface up. Then, type in ifconfig wlan0 to see the current state of the interface:

    Time for action – configuring your wireless card
  2. The MAC address 00:c0:ca:3e:bd:93 should match the MAC address written under your Alfa card. I am using the Edimax that gives me the preceding MAC address 80:1f:02:8f:34:d5. This is a quick check to ensure that you have enabled the correct interface.

What just happened?

Kali ships with all the required drivers for the Alfa and Edimax adapters out of the box. As soon as the machine booted, the adapter was recognized and was assigned the network interface wlan0. Now our wireless adapter is up and functional!

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