Nedrin

Yes, my realtek nw adapter is external, everything up untill this point works, including aircrack suite. Its just that I can't sniff my real laptops packets.

Setup: Laptop with win7 VM on same laptop with Kali Realtek nw adapter I connected my realtek adapter in Kali to my wireless router. I am trying to sniff wireless NW traffic(802.11) with wireshark I can't see any packets with ip.addr==192.168.2.129 (this is the IP address of my WIN7 machine) Any ideas as in what the problem might be? Thanks in advance!

So, I've always been interested in hacking ever since I got in contact with computers as a child. I never followed up on it though. Anyway, I've been following a course this year which included ccna 1-4, windows server, and some linux basics. This just made it even harder for me to create a picture of what knowledge is needed to start pentesting, it seems like everything I come in contact with is something that you need knowledge of.. For example: Linux, Windows server, Powershell, Networking (cisco, citrix, ...) A programming language, or multiple ones Windows Clients, Ive been following the CBT nuggets on Kali linux but it's ridiculous to just type over commands without exactly knowing what they are doing. I guess my question is kind of what direction I should be going with the knowledge I have, what should I learn next, what kind of hacks should I attempt. I am aware that my thread is all of the place, its just hard wanting to learn something but not knowing where to look. So any tips are welcome, forums that I should join, websites, chatrooms, etc etc.... Thanks in advance!