Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing : Beginner's Guide

Time for action – connecting to a WPA network

We can proceed with the following steps:

1. In the case of WPA, the matter is a bit more complicated. The iwconfig utility cannot be used with WPA/WPA2 Personal and Enterprise, as it does not support it. We will use a new tool called WPA_supplicant for this lab. To use WPA_supplicant for a network, we will need to create a configuration file, as shown in the following screenshot. We will name this file wpa-supp.conf:
   
2. We will then invoke the WPA_supplicant utility with the following options: -D wext -i wlan0 –c wpa-supp.conf to connect to the WPA network we just cracked. Once the connection is successful, ...