Alright I just installed Kali 1.0.5 to a virtual machine. I set it as other 2.6 linux os. Installed VMware tools, restarted, and then plugged in my wireless adapter.
I have the Netgear WNA3100. VMware recognizes it, but Kali doesn't. I am not sure what else I need to install to get it to work. If anyone has some links to drivers or how to's please post them here. I need all of the help I can get.
Technical Info.
lsusb
Code:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]
found this in mesg
Code:
[    1.903783] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    1.904000] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[    1.907068] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0846, idProduct=9020
[    1.907070] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    1.907071] usb 1-1: Product: BCMUSB 802.11 Wireless Adapter
[    1.907072] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Broadcom
[    1.907073] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 20137
[    2.003922] VMware vmxnet3 virtual NIC driver - version 1.1.29.0-k-NAPI
[    2.005167] VMware PVSCSI driver - version 1.0.2.0-k
[    2.009628] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[    2.009795] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.23.0-ioctl (2012-07-25) initialised: [email protected]