Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing : Beginner's Guide

Time for action – experimenting with your adapter

Follow the instructions below carefully:

1. Enter the iwconfig wlan0 command to check the capabilities of your card. As you can see in the figure below, my adapter can operate in the b, g, and n bands.
   
2. To set the card on a particular channel, we use the iwconfig mon0 channel X commands.
   
3. The iwconfig series of commands does not have a channel hopping mode. One could write a simple script over it to make it do so. An easier way is to use Airodump-NG with options to either hop channels arbitrarily, use only ...