John L. Hooker
2015-10-15, 15:33
Hey guys,
I first tryed to follow this tutorial (http://samiux.blogspot.de/2014/02/howto-kali-linux-106-on-macbook-air-mid.html) since I saw multiple posts that said that it worked for them.
The problem was that when I launched the dpkg command, I got some error messages (here's the log file (http://pastebin.com/hCmziCBq)) and when I restarted my computer, I still had no way to connect to a wifi network.
If you're having the same problem, here's a way to fix it:
OPTIONAL: For those who are using Kali as a live USB, make sure you have a persistence USB drive, if not follow this guide (http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-persistence) to make one. Otherwise, you won't be able to save what you did. Furthermore, to be able to have a working ethernet connection you will have to connect your ethernet cable before starting the OS. To be able to see boot options, keep pressing Option/alt key directly after having pressed your startup key.
- First make sure your system is up to date
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
- Remove the old wireless driver:
apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
- Download the the latest source file (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin) and place it in /lib/firmware/brcm
- Reboot and normally you will be able to connect to wifi networks ;)
I hope that helped some of you, please notify me if there's grammar/spelling mistakes.
I first tryed to follow this tutorial (http://samiux.blogspot.de/2014/02/howto-kali-linux-106-on-macbook-air-mid.html) since I saw multiple posts that said that it worked for them.
The problem was that when I launched the dpkg command, I got some error messages (here's the log file (http://pastebin.com/hCmziCBq)) and when I restarted my computer, I still had no way to connect to a wifi network.
If you're having the same problem, here's a way to fix it:
OPTIONAL: For those who are using Kali as a live USB, make sure you have a persistence USB drive, if not follow this guide (http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-persistence) to make one. Otherwise, you won't be able to save what you did. Furthermore, to be able to have a working ethernet connection you will have to connect your ethernet cable before starting the OS. To be able to see boot options, keep pressing Option/alt key directly after having pressed your startup key.
- First make sure your system is up to date
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
- Remove the old wireless driver:
apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source
- Download the the latest source file (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin) and place it in /lib/firmware/brcm
- Reboot and normally you will be able to connect to wifi networks ;)
I hope that helped some of you, please notify me if there's grammar/spelling mistakes.