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After having plenty of issues installing kali the first time around I finally got it installed. Next the Wireless drivers didn't install so i installed b43-fwcutter file. This leads me to my latest problem. On the menu bar there is no little Wireless Icon so i can connect to a network. Any ideas on how to help with this?
reaperz73
2013-05-21, 00:28
do you have the sound and battery icons ?
if not alt right click
add to panel
notification area
or at command prompt enter
nm-applet
I have the battery icon. No sound icon and it doesn't give me the "add to panel" option just "add panel".
when i enter "nm-applet" in the terminal it outputs "bash: nm-applet: command not found"
reaperz73
2013-05-21, 00:44
try this
apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome
"some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabel distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may elp to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
network-manager : Depends: wpasupplicant....
"
Tried to get install wpasupplicant and there went everything......
reaperz73
2013-05-21, 01:39
what does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like?
are you doing and apt-get update?
be careful if adding extra sources to your source list.
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL $
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL B$
## Security updates
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
reaperz73
2013-05-21, 05:52
Here is mine, give it a go, looks like you are missing a few core Kali sources
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130327-17:54]/ kali contrib main non-free
### Kali Main
deb http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali main non-free contrib
deb http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali main/debian-installer
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali main non-free contrib
### Security updates
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ kali/updates main contrib non-free
### DEV
deb http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali-dev main contrib non-free
deb http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali-dev main/debian-installer
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali-dev main contrib non-free
### Bleeding Edge
deb http://repo.kali.org/kali/ kali-bleeding-edge main
Thanks for the help! I got my sources.list updated and did the nm-applet command. The icon is now there now i just need to reconfigure the b43-fwcutter. Again.
Okay that works only if i have the nm-applet terminal open. As soon as i exit the terminal the Icon disappears.
reaperz73
2013-05-21, 19:58
yes it will disappear. But it should be in the notification area after you reboot.
neolithic
2013-05-27, 04:53
Thanks for the help! I got my sources.list updated and did the nm-applet command. The icon is now there now i just need to reconfigure the b43-fwcutter. Again.
Okay that works only if i have the nm-applet terminal open. As soon as i exit the terminal the Icon disappears.
I've had the exact same problem, but only in KDE. When I boot into Gnome, the applet is there.
One thing I can add is that you can open the applet using the "open" command: open nm-applet
The "open" command opens the program independent of the terminal window.
Then you can close the terminal and the applet won't disappear.
But I don't know yet how to make it persistent after a reboot. I'm guessing that the above command could be put into a startup script, although I'm sure there's a better way.
It works in KDE in Linux Mint on the same laptop, and also worked fine in BackTrack 5 under KDE, also on the same machine.