Ello all. I have run into a stumbling block. I have bt5 running in vm workstation 8. I have it set to nat as of the moment but i can switch it to bridged if needs be. Anyway i know that in vmware, the wifi of my host gets passed to the virtual machine as a wired connection. I can still browse internet but how do i use airmon, aircrack and wireshark or other wifi scanning  devices in bt5 if my connection is simulated as wired even though the windows laptop is connected via wifi to my router? Is this a case where im gonna have to either get an adapter or boot up as a live os and not virtually? Thanks

Matt

With regards to adapters, there was a fairly recent post which may be of some use:

http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,8338.0/

I wouldn't say that just "because it's a Dell XPS", that the internal card is good.  You'll need to make sure your wireless chipset is compatible with aircrack, etc, if you want to be able to do injection.  If you're simply scanning, then it'll likely be fine, but to actually inject, that's a different story.

<Edit> See http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=compatible_cards

hmm, ill have to double check if my internal can do packet injection. my old laptops internal can. haha i bought that thing back in 06. I will have to check up on these alfa cards you speak off. i like the idea of removable antennas. I build my own parabolic ones that i would love to hook up to my laptop. haha. or better yet, ill make the alfa card, if its usb, the focus of the dish.

The best i have done, i took a usb wifi adapter and hooked it up to my firends 8 foot diameter dish and pointed in in random directions to see what we could find. haha. 65 networks.