No wlan0, but lsusb shows devices

[rpilover]

From a default installation of Kali on Raspberry Pi, I've edited /etc/networking/interfaces and added:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

auto wlan1
iface wlan1 inet dhcp

and restarted networking:

/etc/init.d/networking start

but get errors:

Cannot find device "wlan0"
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0
-snip-
Cannot find device "wlan1"
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan1
done.

lsusb shows:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]
-snip-
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter

ifconfig shows lo and eth0

iwconfig shows lo and eth0 as "no wireless extensions"

"ifconfig wlan0 up" shows "ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

"dmesg | grep -i RTL" shows no errors

So it looks like the USB Wifi devices are discovered, but I can't get ifconfig or iwconfig to work. Now what?

[UseLinux]

Whats rtkill list show?

[rpilover]

"rtkill list" shows "command not found". Any other ideas?

[charonsecurity]

Try "rfkill list".

[rpilover]

Both "rfkill list" and "rtkill list" result in "command not found".

[rpilover]

Does it matter that this is Kali running from an SD card in a Raspberry Pi? The image came from the main downloads page on kali.org.

[rpilover]

I'm installing rfkill now, having found a wired network to use.

"Can't open RFKILL control device: No such file or directory"

[rpilover]

Looks like there was a problem with the 1.04 ARMEL release for RPi. The 1.05 release fixed this problem. Thanks to all for their help.

[Krum]

Looks like there was a problem with the 1.04 ARMEL release for RPi. The 1.05 release fixed this problem. Thanks to all for their help.

Where should I watch for updated releases? I am having all kinds of problems with my ARM Chromebook 1.04 release. I have tried every forum lead on the internet and cannot resolve my networking issues. I guess I'm now just waiting for an updated release for my ARM Chromebook.

So, where should I watch? I keep checking the link on the documents page and it has a date at the top that is in February. Is there another place where they host releases?

Thanks
-Krum

[acarrillo]

Looks like there was a problem with the 1.04 ARMEL release for RPi. The 1.05 release fixed this problem. Thanks to all for their help.

How did 1.05 fix your issues? I am having the EXACT same issues while running 1.05...

[olo]

Me too. Please help if it's possible to use airmon-ng with Bus 001 Device 004: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]?