The hands on labs have been tested with these two adapters, because they have shown to be dependable over the years.
Either of these will give you the best experience during the labs. The last thing you want to do is wasting precious time fiddling with an adapter and its driver, trying to figure out why it doesn't work properly.
Yes. However, it needs to be USB and at least support 802.11n, monitor mode, and access point mode, otherwise you won't be able to participate in the labs.
Adapters using out of kernel drivers (such as the Alfa AWUS1900, AWUS036AC, or AWUS036ACH), with vendor driver (even modified ones) or staging drivers are discouraged as they are unstable.
If you decide to choose another adapter, the next choice would be one using the
ath9k_htc driver, or one with a
Mediatek chipset that is either 802.11n or 802.11ac.
In a terminal, run iw phy phy0 info, where phy0 should
be replaced with the PHY of the adapter (which can be found
using sudo airmon-ng).
The output should indicate HT(802.11n) at the very least (VHT is for 802.11ac
and HE is for 802.11ax), as well as monitor and AP must be present
in the Supported interface modes section.
Make sure it works properly in managed (client) mode, and if you can run an injection test
with aireplay-ng.
No. You are free to use text chat instead of voice to ask questions, or when you need assistance during the hands-on labs.
The debian documentation is a great resource to become familiar with the command line, and more specifically, the Console basics and Unix-like filesystem sections.
While you can learn these fundamentals on any Linux distribution, if you don't have any particular Linux distribution of choice, we recommend trying it on Kali, which we will be using during the training course.
For live classes advertised on our website, we fully refund (with the exception of transaction and platform fees) up to 7 days before the day of class.
In the event we cancel a class, you will receive a full refund, including transaction fees and platform fees.