[HELP] Kali Linux 2016.1 won't recognize my onboard wlan.

Hey guys, I recently bought a HP Pavilion laptop(HP Pavilion 15 AB522TX to be more specific) and I just installed Kali Linux 2016.1 64-bit on dual boot with Windows 10 which came pre-installed. As the title says, I cannot use my wifi on Kali at all. It isn't detected in my settings or anywhere else except for lspci and lsusb. I will post the results of each command for better understanding of my problem. I hope you guys can help me figure this out. Oh, and my wireless card is working all good with windows and there is no switch(physical or "fn+something) for the wifi, so it is always turned on.

I couldn't post the dmesg results as it was way too long and the forum didn't permit me to. Hope this is enough, if that is needed, let me know, I will find out a way to post that too.

P.S : Sorry if this was a noob-ish post. I tried everything I could to fix it by myself, when I couldn't I'm turning towards more experienced people.

All the commands are from the troubleshooting post. If I missed any, let me know, I will check that out too.

Code:

# airmon-zc --verbose bash: airmon-zc: command not found

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# lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:216d Broadcom Corp. Bus 001 Device 008: ID 2a96:2008 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b50c Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 1903 (rev 08) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d2f (rev 21) 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d31 (rev 21) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3a (rev 21) 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d03 (rev 21) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d10 (rev f1) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d14 (rev f1) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d15 (rev f1) 00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d18 (rev f1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21) 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d21 (rev 21) 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d70 (rev 21) 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 9d23 (rev 21) 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940M] (rev a2) 02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 522a (rev 01) 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 0a)

Code:

# rfkill unblock wifi; rfkill list 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

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# lsmod Module Size Used by rndis_host 16384 0 cdc_ether 16384 1 rndis_host usbnet 40960 2 rndis_host,cdc_ether rfcomm 69632 2 bnep 20480 2 fuse 94208 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi 49152 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek 81920 1 snd_hda_codec_generic 73728 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek nfnetlink_queue 20480 0 nfnetlink_log 20480 0 nfnetlink 16384 2 nfnetlink_log,nfnetlink_queue binfmt_misc 20480 1 intel_rapl 20480 0 x86_pkg_temp_thermal 16384 0 intel_powerclamp 16384 0 coretemp 16384 0 kvm_intel 163840 0 uvcvideo 90112 0 videobuf2_vmalloc 16384 1 uvcvideo btusb 45056 0 btrtl 16384 1 btusb btbcm 16384 1 btusb nouveau 1458176 0 btintel 16384 1 btusb videobuf2_memops 16384 1 videobuf2_vmalloc bluetooth 512000 29 bnep,btbcm,btrtl,btusb,rfcomm,btintel videobuf2_core 49152 1 uvcvideo v4l2_common 16384 1 videobuf2_core videodev 163840 3 uvcvideo,v4l2_common,videobuf2_core mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau media 24576 2 uvcvideo,videodev ttm 94208 1 nouveau hp_wmi 16384 0 kvm 507904 1 kvm_intel joydev 20480 0 sparse_keymap 16384 1 hp_wmi rfkill 24576 5 hp_wmi,bluetooth i915 1122304 8 tpm_crb 16384 0 evdev 20480 16 psmouse 126976 0 serio_raw 16384 0 sg 32768 0 pcspkr 16384 0 hp_accel 28672 0 wmi 20480 3 hp_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau lis3lv02d 20480 1 hp_accel hp_wireless 16384 0 input_polldev 16384 1 lis3lv02d shpchp 36864 0 tpm 40960 1 tpm_crb int3400_thermal 16384 0 acpi_thermal_rel 16384 1 int3400_thermal mei_me 28672 0 int3403_thermal 16384 0 mei 94208 1 mei_me snd_hda_intel 36864 8 processor_thermal_device 16384 0 snd_hda_codec 135168 4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel intel_soc_dts_iosf 16384 1 processor_thermal_device drm_kms_helper 131072 2 i915,nouveau drm 348160 11 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau snd_hda_core 65536 5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 16384 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 102400 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core snd_timer 32768 1 snd_pcm snd 81920 23 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel acpi_pad 24576 0 video 36864 2 i915,nouveau ac 16384 0 i2c_i801 20480 0 iosf_mbi 16384 2 intel_soc_dts_iosf,intel_rapl int340x_thermal_zone 16384 2 processor_thermal_device,int3403_thermal battery 16384 0 soundcore 16384 1 snd button 16384 2 i915,nouveau processor 36864 0 autofs4 40960 2 ext4 577536 1 crc16 16384 2 ext4,bluetooth mbcache 20480 1 ext4 jbd2 106496 1 ext4 sr_mod 24576 0 cdrom 57344 1 sr_mod sd_mod 40960 3 crct10dif_pclmul 16384 0 crc32_pclmul 16384 0 crc32c_intel 24576 0 jitterentropy_rng 16384 0 sha256_ssse3 28672 1 sha256_generic 24576 1 sha256_ssse3 hmac 16384 1 drbg 24576 1 ansi_cprng 16384 0 aesni_intel 167936 0 aes_x86_64 20480 1 aesni_intel lrw 16384 1 aesni_intel gf128mul 16384 1 lrw glue_helper 16384 1 aesni_intel ablk_helper 16384 1 aesni_intel cryptd 20480 2 aesni_intel,ablk_helper ahci 36864 2 libahci 32768 1 ahci r8169 81920 0 xhci_pci 16384 0 mii 16384 2 r8169,usbnet xhci_hcd 172032 1 xhci_pci libata 233472 2 ahci,libahci scsi_mod 229376 4 sg,libata,sd_mod,sr_mod usbcore 233472 8 btusb,uvcvideo,rndis_host,usbnet,xhci_hcd,xhci_pci,cdc_ether usb_common 16384 1 usbcore thermal 20480 0

Code:

# iwconfig; airmon-ng eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. ls: cannot access /sys/class/ieee80211/: No such file or directory PHY Interface Driver Chipset

Code:

# lsb_release -a; uname -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Kali Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling Release: kali-rolling Codename: kali-rolling Linux spectrum 4.3.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-5kali4 (2016-01-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I had the same problem on my Dell Inspiron 3520 maybe this will help you

1. Open your terminal and type

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leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Copy this line and add it to the list of sources
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

3. In the terminal type

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apt-get update

4. After the update add this command to the terminal

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apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms

5. When the installation finishes restart your device and you should have wifi.

Be careful when playing with the sources.list file on your system as this could cause unknown issues.

It would be advisable to first do :

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apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

before to see if that helps with finding the packages/drivers you need since it seems you have an older kernel installed at the moment. And also, make backups in case ;)