{"id":340,"date":"2022-12-21T00:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/?p=340"},"modified":"2022-12-21T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:35:30","slug":"virtualbox-and-wifi-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox and Wifi tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">So you bought a Linux compatible wifi adapter but it is not \"seen\" in VirtualBox.\n\nThings to check:\n\nIf your computer has a built-in wifi adapter it can NOT be used for wifi sniffing \/ attacks, you will need a guest compatible external adapter.\n\nThe drivers for the wifi adapter might need to be installed on the host machine.\n\nOne way to change the Mode of the adapter to Monitor mode is to run the following \n\n<strong>Standalone<\/strong>\nairmon-ng start wlan0\n\nCommand  Action  Interface  Channel or Frequency\n<strong>With Channel<\/strong>\nairmon-ng start wlan0 153    \n\n<strong>With Frequency<\/strong>\nairmon-ng start wlan0 5700\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you bought a Linux compatible wifi adapter but it is not &#8220;seen&#8221; in VirtualBox. Things to check: If your computer has a built-in wifi adapter it can NOT be used for wifi sniffing \/ attacks, you will need a guest compatible external adapter. The drivers for the wifi adapter might need to be installed<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/davewells.me\/?p=340\" class=\"link-btn theme-btn\"><span>Read More <\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 69a017a6c6af5adb9634f6fd. Config Timestamp: 2026-02-26 09:51:33 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-04-24 12:26:24 UTC -->