Now let me show you how to connect to a hidden network because the process is a bit different than connecting
to a normal network.
The main thing is since I was use an aero dump Angie I put my wireless card in monitor mode.
So if I go and try to connect nothing is going to happen and I won't even be able to discover networks
because as we said before you can't connect to networks when you're in monitor mode monitor mode is
only used if we wanted to capture packets that are not even sent to us so it can't associate with one
specific network so to connect to a network you need to be in managed mode which is the default mode.
So you can put your card back in managed mode by do an airman and you stop
and then you put the wireless card name so if you started it using the first method or the third method
you're going to do Lanz your Amon or in my case I started to monitor mode use in the second method.
So I'm going to have to do either Blue config 1 0 mode managed
of course and both of these cases you have to bring the card down do that and then bring the card up.
Now an easier way to do this and just to avoid all confusion regardless of the way that you enabled
monitor mode all you have to do is just disconnect the card.
So that's what I'm going to do physically disconnect my wireless card and very connected back.
Now when you do this if I do ifconfig you won't even see the wireless card in here.
So we have to go back to the devices menu USP and attach the wireless card.
And for me it's called Atheros right here.
So if I do that that's going to connect my card again.
So if I do have config you'll see that I have my LAN 0 and if I do either Blue config you'll see that
my line zero is back into managed mode.
So it's in the default mode and I can use it to connect to networks now to connect to the network we're
going to go to settings.
I'm going to click on all applications and I'm going to go to settings and I'm going to go on network.
Now if you actually if you enabled monitor mode using the third method if you go on networks you won't
see anything again.
It's going to say that your network manager is off.
So if it looks like this that's fine.
If it doesn't look like this then go back to your terminal and run or start the network manager again.
Because when you do Ehrmann energy check kill that kills the network manager.
So just do a service network manager
and that will start the network manager for you come back here.
It should look like this.
And if it's looking like this then everything is perfect.
Now since we want to connect to a hidden network you want see the network that you want to connect in
here so you can see that I don't have my target network in here.
So I'm going to go on Connect to a hidden network and then it's going to ask me for the network name.
So I'm going to put test a.p like we see in
Cousin here if we go back to the result of error don't Pendu you'll see that the name of the network
was test AP then it's going to ask me to put the security of the network.
So again if the network is used in WEP or WPA or WPA too then you can specify it from here.
In my case it's not used in anything so it's hard to non-SS I'm just going to connect and as you can
see I managed to connect to the network.
If we go on the settings now this network actually does not have internet connection.
That's why there was very low data going in.
But as you can see I'm connected to the network.
I have a good signal strength.
I've got an IP address and I have the IP address of the default gateway and I can do anything I want
now on the network because I'm fully connected to it.
So when it comes to connect into a network you need to keep in mind that your wireless card has to be
in managed mode not in monitor mode.
There is a number of ways to do that.
The easiest one is just to physically disconnect the card connect it back and then look for the networks.
If you go and look for networks and it tells you that the network manager is down if it's off then all
you have to do is just run Service Network Manager start and that'll start the network manager for you.
Then you can come back connect to a hidden network put the network name and then you'll be able to connect
as I said hidden networks can make a major obstacle because if the network is open you want to be able
to connect if the network is using a password then you can't even start doing the attacks that we're
going to talk about until you know the name of the network.
So your first step is always you need to know the name of the network.