No Wireless Interface

I have an up-to-date Kali Linux 64-bit installation. My Network Controller is Broadcom's BCM43142. Currently the issue is I'm unable to use wireless, I had no issue using it by default with Ubuntu Gnome, but switching to Kali, for some reason it didn't like that. Currently tethering my phone to my laptop, which is why usb0 is there.

Installing compat-wireless allowed me to enable wlan0 (and apparently wlan1 at the same time). However, my situation isn't any better. It doesn't see any of the networks (even though I'm right next to the router) and it doesn't allow me to manually connect via SSID.

Headers & Driver Up-to-date as well.

Code:

linux-headers-amd64 is already the newest version (4.12+84+kali1). linux-image-amd64 is already the newest version (4.12+84+kali1). broadcom-sta-dkms is already the newest version (6.30.223.271-7).

rfkill list (ignore the soft blocks, I have them on so as to not potentially interfere with usb tethering)

Code:

0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 3: phy1: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 5: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

iwconfig

Code:

... wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off wlan1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off usb0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions.

ifconfig -a

Code:

... wlan0: flags=802<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,PROMISC,ALLMULTI> mtu 1500 ether 56:02:62:53:50:35 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 18 bytes 1806 (1.7 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 18 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 wlan1: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 12:b2:4b:9e:40:60 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

Installing compat wireless was unnecessary. They are obsolete packages of backports and backports are used for old kernel versions which doesn't support newer hardware. Why are you following old internet guides?

gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Type:
blacklist ideapad_laptop

Save the file & Reboot.

There was no blacklist.conf file. However there were a couple files containing 'blacklist' in the file name. I tried adding what you suggested to each of them one at a time, and finally tried creating the blacklist.conf file. None of those worked. If compat-wireless was a waste of time, then I'm simply back at the issue of having no wlan0.

That's not possible. Show the output of ls /etc/modprobe.d Also the show the output of lsmod..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madg0d

However there were a couple files containing 'blacklist' in the file name.

In my directory there are only two with that name and one of them is blacklist.conf