During a wireless network penetration test, you will be required to attach an external wireless NIC to your Kali Linux machine. If you have Kali Linux installed directly on a disk drive, attaching a wireless NIC is as simple as connecting it via USB. The adapter will automatically be present within the network settings.
However, things can get a bit tricky when using virtual machines. In this section, I will demonstrate how to attach a wireless network adapter to both VMware Workstation and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
If you're using VMware Workstation, follow these steps:
- First, select the Kali Linux virtual machine and click on Edit virtual machine settings:
- Then, the virtual machine settings will ...
