Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Connecting to a wireless adapter

In this part of the chapter, we will see how to connect a USB device to a virtual machine. As an example, we are going to connect a wireless adapter to a Kali machine, but the same method can be used to connect any USB device. We will need a wireless adapter for the cracking section of the network penetration test, because in later chapters, we will learn how to crack passwords for Wi-Fi networks. Other than that, we can do everything else without a wireless adapter.

A wireless adapter is a USB device that connects to the computer through the USB and allows us to communicate with wireless networks. Most computers and laptops now come with built-in wireless cards. The only problem is, first of all, that we ...