SystemCrash86 Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 I was wondering how you can “hack” or moniter a wireless network when the network in question does not show up on any of the scans, even though you know for a fact its turned on, in use and in perfect working order. I have a dual boot windows/BackTrack 4 laptop and my friend has a usb Vodafone broadband dongle in order to access the internet and when I try to find it in the list of available networks with both my windows side and my backtrack side - the network does not show up. Does any one know a way to get round this? All suggestions are welcome, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 What tools did you use to try to find the network? You said that it doesn't show up on any of the scans. There are tools on BT4 that should pick up the network even if it's not broadcasting it's SSID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Vodaphone is a mobile phone provider... that adapter your friend has uses the mobile phone network not a computer wireless network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamo Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Vodaphone is a mobile phone provider... that adapter your friend has uses the mobile phone network not a computer wireless network. Unless if it shares it to wlan, which I doubt. If your friend is using windows 7, he can share that connection via http://www.connectify.me/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 (edited) You can use Kismet to try and search for that non-broadcasting wireless. But I am not 100% whether you will be able to find your friends Vodafone wireless, since its a different network altogether. But it would be nice to see, what happens I've always wanted to try this. Edited December 6, 2010 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Like Sparda said, its more than likely a cell network provider and on a 3g network. you would need different equipment to monitor cellular networks than standard wifi. Two completely different animals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 You can use some thing like the GNU Radio to do stuff (possibly illegal) with mobile phone networks, but it's not as simple as 802.11 networks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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