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‫In this lecture, I'm gonna show you

‫how to connect a USB device to a virtual machine.

‫As an example, I'll be connecting a wireless adapter

‫to the virtual Kali machine,

‫but this method can be used

‫to connect any type of USB adapter.

‫As mentioned in the course requirements,

‫you need a wireless adapter for the cracking sections

‫of the course.

‫These two sections account for less than 8% of the course.

‫So, if you don't have a wireless adapter

‫and can't afford to buy one, then that's completely fine.

‫You could simply skip these two sections,

‫continue from the network hacking post-exploitation section,

‫and you'll be able to do everything else in the course

‫without a wireless adapter.

‫Now, what we mean by a wireless adapter

‫is simply a USB device

‫that you connect to your computer

‫and it allows your computer to communicate

‫with Wi-Fi networks.

‫Now, most modern computers come

‫with built-in wireless cards.

‫The only problem is these built-in wireless cards

‫are not good for hacking.

‫The Wi-Fi or wireless adapter that we need

‫needs to support monitor mode, packet injection,

‫and AP mode.

‫I will include a video in the resources

‫to help you pick a good wireless adapter.

‫And don't worry about what we mean by these modes.

‫We will talk about this as we go through the course,

‫but, basically, you need to get a wireless adapter

‫that supports all of these three modes

‫and it should be supported by Kali Linux.

‫The main thing you want to keep in mind

‫is the brand does not matter.

‫What you need to look for is any adapter

‫that uses any of these two chip sets.

‫The chip set is the brains of the wireless adapter.

‫It's what does most of the work and, therefore,

‫if you get any adapter, regardless of what brand it is,

‫if it uses any of these two chip sets,

‫it should support all of these modes

‫and it should work with everything that I'm gonna do

‫and you'll learn in this course.

‫So anyway, check out the video in the resources

‫for more information on how to pick a good wireless adapter.

‫I'm also gonna include the link in the resources

‫for our own shop where we sell supported wireless adapters,

‫but you do not have to buy it from us.

‫You can buy it from anywhere,

‫as long as you get an adapter

‫that uses one of the recommended chipsets.

‫The wireless adapter that I'm gonna be connecting

‫to this computer is actually gonna be this one

‫that uses the Realtek 8812AU chip set.

‫You can follow the same instructions

‫for whatever wireless adapter,

‫as long as it's supported by Kali.

‫So what we need to do is simply run VMware.

‫We're gonna click on the Kali machine.

‫We're gonna right click it and go to its settings.

‫We're gonna click on add in here to add a USB controller.

‫We're gonna select that we want to add

‫a USB controller in here.

‫We're gonna click on finish,

‫and in the settings for the USB compatibility,

‫I'm going to set this to 3.1.

‫I'm gonna click on show all USB input devices,

‫and we're gonna click on OK.

‫And we're done.

‫Now before starting Kali,

‫make sure that you disconnect the wireless adapter.

‫So if you already have it connected to your computer,

‫physically disconnect it

‫from the USB port from the computer.

‫Make sure you do that before starting Kali.

‫So, I'm gonna go ahead and start it.

‫I'm gonna log in.

‫Once logged in, let's go and open up our terminal.

‫And I'm gonna run ifconfig.

‫This command is used to list

‫all of the network interfaces

‫connected to this computer.

‫And if I hit enter,

‫you'll see right now I have two interfaces.

‫One of them is called eth0.

‫This is a virtual ethernet interface

‫that is actually created by VMware,

‫in order to connect this machine

‫through the virtual NOC network.

‫You also have lo,

‫which is the virtual loopback interface used in Linux.

‫So both of these are virtual interfaces.

‫None of them is our wireless adapter,

‫but that is normal

‫because I haven't connected my wireless adapter yet.

‫So I'm gonna go ahead and connect it to my computer.

‫And as you can see, as soon as I do that,

‫we're gonna get a popup.

‫The popup is asking us, what do we want to do with this?

‫Do we want to connect it to the host?

‫So the host is the main computer, the Windows computer.

‫Or do we want to connect it to the virtual machine?

‫Now, we obviously want to connect it

‫to the virtual machine, so I'm selecting this option.

‫This is the virtual machine that we're connecting it to,

‫which is my Kali machine.

‫That is perfect.

‫And we're gonna tick this box

‫so that it always connects it

‫to this machine in the future.

‫It won't show me this popup message.

‫Once we do that,

‫we're gonna see another popup that simply tells us

‫that we can always connect and disconnect USB devices

‫using the USB icon in here on the top right.

‫So that's fine.

‫I'm gonna say thank you, don't show me this either.

‫We're gonna click on OK.

‫And now, if we run the exact same command, ifconfig, again,

‫you'll notice that I have another interface.

‫So we still have eth0, which is like I said,

‫the virtual interface that is used to connect

‫to the virtual NOC network.

‫We also still have lo, the loopback interface,

‫and we have a new interface right now called, lan0,

‫which is my wireless adapter that I just connected to Kali.

‫So now we can go ahead and use this adapter

‫to discover wireless networks around us and hack them.

‫And we will talk about that in details in the next lectures.

‫And as mentioned, you only need this for 10% of the course,

‫only for the cracking section.

‫Also, now, if we look here on the top right,

‫you'll notice that we have an option for Wi-Fi,

‫and if we click on it,

‫we can select a network and connect to a Wi-Fi network.

‫Now, I don't want to do that,

‫and you should not do that because we don't need to do this.

‫We don't need the wireless adapter

‫to connect to Wi-Fi networks.

‫We already have internet access in here

‫through the virtual NOC network through eth0.

‫We're only using the wireless adapter

‫to actually discover wireless networks and hack them,

‫not to connect to them.