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:

  2. The MAC address 00:c0:ca:3e:bd:93 should match the MAC address written under your Alfa card. I ...

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