No wireless card interface while plugging in USB wireless adapter
I have been use Kali Linux for a while, the problem shown in the title always bothers me. Here is the detail:
I am now running the latest version of Kali Linux in VMware workstation 11. The VMware Kali OS img was downloaded directly from its official website. After I boot up the OS and plug in the USB wireless network adapter which is TL-WN722N the card can be detected by lsusb.
Code:
root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0003 VMware, Inc. Virtual Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
However if I run ifconfig -a, there is no wireless interface for me.
Code:
root@kali:~# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:15:d1:22
inet addr:192.168.88.128 Bcast:192.168.88.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe15:d122/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:24835 (24.2 KiB) TX bytes:4410 (4.3 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2700 (2.6 KiB) TX bytes:2700 (2.6 KiB)
An interesting thing is that sometimes not very often, Kali linux provides me an interface and works perfect with me.
