HP Mini 311-1000nr Wireless+Ethernet Trouble

[Kalibruz]

Hi all! My ethernet and wireless no longer work after running the following commands:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

This is my 1st attempt with Kali linux and am unable to resolve the issue after rereading the information located in 03. Installing Kali Linux /Troubleshooting Wireless Drivers and 05. Using Kali Linux /Install NVIDIA Drivers on Kali. i also searched google with no resolution to my problem. I can temporarily resolve by following steps located in this thread: Network connection help with HP mini 311 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1584857). However, when I try to complete the steps in 05. Using Kali Linux /Install NVIDIA Drivers on Kali with the aforementioned commands, my wireless no longer works and I have to reinstall the wireless driver listed in the aforementioned link. I have looked in Aircrack Link (http://aircrack-ng.blogspot.com/2012/10/will-my-card-work-with-aircrack-ng.html) and the Compat-Wireless Link (http://aircrack-ng.blogspot.com/2012/03/compat-wireless.html). No resolution.

What diagnostic commands can run to assist? All I have currently is

rfkill list
which gives me:

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
I have the latest Kali Linux distro as of this post which is kali-linux-1.1.0a-i386 (2015-05-03, 10:33 AM)

Edit: I have upgraded to Kali 2.0. Still experienced the same problem mentioned above. Please see post #3 for Solution

[Kalibruz]

Currently booted with the Live Persistence Kali off of my USB drive. Ethernet and wireless are working fine. I have not entered the update/upgrade commands in terminal.

[Kalibruz]

Hey all! It's been awhile since I've been on here. I finally got around to finding a solution to this. It is a generic solution that should be able to be used across all Debian variants. Since I have used this to solve my problem here with Kali & Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu/Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS; I can only vouch that it works with the aforementioned. The link is here (http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=5842.0). I have C&P to thread here as well.

For an "Offline" install of b43-fwcutter and firmware in Ubuntu...
(ie. without an working internet connection on the Ubuntu PC)

[EDIT]

New instructions for Ubuntu 12.04 can be found at this link:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=5842.msg81040#msg81040

[END EDIT}

Supported models include:
BCM4301 BCM4306/2, BCM4306/3, BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4318, BCM4320

Install b43-fwcutter:
With the Ubuntu CDROM inserted... navigate on the CD to:
/pool/main/b/b43-fwcutter/
and double-click the b43-fwcutter .deb package contained there.
When the Ubuntu Software Centre opens... click "Install"

Install patch:
With the Ubuntu CDROM inserted... navigate on the CD to:
/pool/main/p/patch/
and double-click the patch .deb package contained there.
When the Ubuntu Software Centre opens... click "Install"

On a separate PC that has a working internet connection, download these 2 files:

http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
and
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

Now transfer them to your Home folder on the Ubuntu PC.

Open a terminal and enter these 6 commands.


cd ~
tar -xjvf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
sudo b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
sudo chmod 775 /lib/firmware/b43
sudo chmod 775 /lib/firmware/b43legacy

hitting enter after each line, and your password when asked.

at this point, you *may* need to reboot.

Now see if the b43 driver is available for activation in System>Administration>Additional Drivers

Most of this is in the "b43 - No internet access" section here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

Except for the 2 chmod 775 commands which I found were necessary... at least for me.