i messed up and my system isn't seeing any wifi networks

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Not sure what I did, but here are some outputs:
(i got this script from: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html to gather all informaiton listed below)

kali was able to detect and use Wireless Networks until today. I am not sure what I did wrong. Hopefully someone can help me. Ethernet is still working.

i did service network-manager restart...
ifconfig wlan0 down, ifconfig wlan0 up...
no change after either.

here are the outputs... NOTE - I added the .txt file as "the text i entered is too long 13521 characters and I am limited to 10000 characters long in posts i guess...

PLEASE HELP...

============ lspci ============
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller [8086:0104] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:00de]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port [8086:0101] (rev 09)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:01.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port [8086:0105] (rev 09)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Apple MacBookPro8,2 [Core i7, 15", 2011] [8086:7270]
Kernel driver in use: mei
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Universal Host Controller #5 [8086:1c2c] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Apple MacBookPro8,2 [Core i7, 15", 2011] [8086:7270]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1c2d] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Apple MacBookPro8,2 [Core i7, 15", 2011] [8086:7270]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 05)

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now wlan0 is completely gone. i am only able to connect with ethernet.

when i go to do the 'apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer'
'modprobe b43'

i get the message that it's already the newest version.

please help.

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the wifi is working perfectly on the mac partition. I am not sure what I did in kali to mess this up.
please help.

[brazen]

i have tried:

root@kali:~# apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firmware-b43-installer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/9,690 B of archives.
After this operation, 2,048 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 392684 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firmware-b43-installer ...
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.
(Reading database ... 392679 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (from .../firmware-b43-lpphy-installer_1%3a015-14.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (1:015-14.1) ...
No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
No supported card found.
Use proper b43 or b43legacy firmware.
Aborting.
root@kali:~#


and i have tried:
root@kali:~# apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firmware-b43-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/9,768 B of archives.
After this operation, 2,048 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 392685 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firmware-b43-lpphy-installer ...
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-b43-installer.
(Reading database ... 392679 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firmware-b43-installer (from .../firmware-b43-installer_1%3a015-14.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:015-14.1) ...
No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
Unsupported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:4331
Aborting.


any other ideas as I am running out of my own.

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here is something i found for ubuntu,
Type in the terminal

lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4
(my output is:
root@kali:~# lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:16b4] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:16b4]
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4331] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4331]
)
b43fwcutter with firmware-b43-installer works for model numbers

14e4:4307
14e4:4311
14e4:4312
14e4:4318
14e4:4319
14e4:4320
14e4:4331 (In 12.04 and later it needs linux-firmware-nonfree) I HAVE THIS ONE
14e4:4357
14e4:5354

For these chips, to use the b43 driver you'll need to:
(how do i convert these two lines for kali?)
sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

Then reboot, and you should have wireless!

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UNBELIEVEABLE!

sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

working... all good. it only took me all day! ufffff