Need some help while installing my Broadcom driver

[Nswayze]

Hey, firstly thank you to anyone taking the time out of their day to read this thread. I appreciate the help. (sorry if this is a dup thread, I couldnt find the post)

I recently managed to Install Kali via my USB disk using "Unetbootin" and
proceeded to follow the instructions listed on Broadcom.com to get the Wireless Adapter Driver working.


"install kernel-PAE-devel

On Ubuntu, you will need headers and tools. Try these commands:
# apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
# apt-get build-dep linux"

(It doesn't list Debian/Kali in the readme, but it supports it)

Since I ONLY have access to wifi at the moment, I can not hookup my ethernet and I manually had to search the respatory for
"build-essential_11.7_amd64.deb" via Windows 7.

I ran the package through the Kali installer but the install status flies by then closes without confirmation

and when I run the Make file for the wireless driver I get

"make: *** /lib/modules/"release"/build: No such file or directory. Stop."

And the error in the readme that corresponds to this is

"you do not have the proper packages installed, since installing the
proper packages will create /lib/modules/"release"/build on your system."


So my question is this, since I can't run apt-get, is there any possibly way that I can run apt-get in my virtual box and
once the files have each installed on that; copy the installed directories to my installed version of Kali?

Otherwise how do I manually download the dependencies bit by bit? (On my win7)

[Deadlysporks]

Have you had any luck so far? I am in the same boat. You would think something like this would be included in the base install as compiling from source is a fairly common thing in linux. I was thinking maybe it may be somehow on the installation disk and possible to install from there. I'm at work now so I won't be able to give it a shot for a bit yet.

**update**
So I attempted adding the install disk using:
apt-cdrom add
Then retried installing build-essential to no avail. While I had a chance on my phone I located the install package for build-essential and manually installed it using the package installer program. It claimed to have failed the install, but after retrying apt-get it claimed it had in fact installed. I believe package installer was trying to resolve the dependencies and could not due to lack of an Internet connection. When I sought out to get the dependencies in the same manner I quickly realized that is an extensive list.