Good call on the tax info, you are right sometimes get to excited and forget about the simple stuff :-D

Well doing that would be wrong and get you into trouble.  You know who the kid is from the school right, could you ask the school for his address?  maybe find it on his facebook page? 

I am sorry but they are going to far and the people hunting them have more funds backing them they will get caught someday.

1) http://www.whatismyip.com/tools/ip-address-lookup.asp
2) get the ISP
3) call the ISP you got the guys last name
4) get the address from the ISP

Sorry I missed that part, was reading fast

My friend's laptop was stolen.

If he knows where it is why does he just not go to the police?

He has all the guy's personal information, name age which highschool he went to, what his external IP is ect. (he has logmein on the computer) problem is the guy turns the laptop off when he's not using it.

How does he have all this informtion?

So my friend sits there everyday and watching him on the laptop trying to find a moment to grab the laptop and use it real quick. It's a win7 machine with some antivirus. He moused over the network icon and saw he was attached to Linksys.

Did he break into the guys house to get this information?  This guy is running a Linksys router without changing the SSID?


Which is a bummer through tracing his external IP we know the neighborhood, and planned on going wardriving to hunt for the SSID, but with it being linksys we're gonna get a few results.

How did you get his external IP?  If you know his external IP there is no need to war drive .

Now I know that using netsh in win7 you can do something like a show wlan /all and get the mac address for the wireless network so we can pinpoint it.

Why are you using windows 7?  Linux is needed makes life much easier.  This wont work unless you are connected to his network and if its secured which I am sure it is, it is not going to be easy.

but as well. but with it possibly being an old linksys do you guys know if maybe I could do something to like get the netbios against the internet address to get the mac that way. As a moment of time to type commands on the laptop hasn't presented it's self?

Now with all that said.  Are you trying to gain access to your friends laptop in this other guys house? If so why are you trying to do this? If the laptop is his does he have proof its his?  If so call the cops and get it back.

In the VM it does not show up as a wireless device it comes through the host machine and it shows up as a Ethernet card not wireless device.

So with GNS3 you are able to use your vms in the environment as well?  This looks cool I have been using Packet Tracer to practice for my Cisco certs.

Yeah I agree on point three but it was designed by you making a hacking challenge 100% easier because you know all the configs of all the devices this is the major draw back here.

I agree snap shots are amazing. 

Ok, from the diagrams I saw online there was some sort of firewall that you had to get through I just assumed it was some sort of router.

But the subject at hand here had to do with a at home lab but this is going no where I am sorry should of been more specific.

I see, thanks alot everyone.

1) VM's take away the ability to allow you to hack wireless.
2) VM's there are no routers or switches to go through.
3) Its a Fake network.

Yes everyone is going VM's but in your fake VM lab you don't have what I have stated above which are huge parts of businesses.

If you look at me have a laptop that can hold alot but no switch's, router's, extra so having something like that available to practice I feel is more real word.  Does this make more sense when I say you know what I mean?

NM I found it http://workforce.cisecurity.org/

Welcome

You know if they got anything like this for people in the US :-D how strict are they on the postcode?

Welcome B345T this is an amazing site you will learn alot here about ethical hacking.  Hope you have a good time.