Hi all, I tried to get wireless setup on Kali a while ago and gave up. I'm revisiting the issue and I'm still getting no dice. I will try to provide as much info as possible. I'm fairly new to Linux, I've used Ubuntu for a decent amount of time, but I am by no means very well informed yet. Any help would be HUGELY appreciated.
I'm on a Lenovo Z510 running a Broadcom 43142 card.
I'm currently running Kali live so I can just restart if I royally screw up anything while attempting to make the wireless run
"uname -r" gives "3.14-kali1-686-pae" (32-bit)
Each time I boot live, I immediately run "sudo apt-get update && upgrade", so please don't assume I have downloaded any other packages and please specify if I do need others. That is the only thing I know for certain I need to do on a fresh start. Everything else I have downloaded has been extra in trying to make a certain solution work.
"lspci | grep BCM" recognizes the wireless card as the network controller
"iwconfig" gives me no wireless extensions for lo or eth0
I have unblocked wifi with "rfkill unblock wifi"
At the top right where internet connections appear, there is no option for wireless whatsoever
I have tried these links to get help (issues encountered when attempting each will be listed below each link):
http://thedubiousdisc.wordpress.com/...ork-on-debian/
- linux-headers-generic returns no package to install
- "sudo dpkg -i wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19-1_amd64.deb" returns an error and the package is not processed at all
http://www.chokepoint.net/2014/04/in...rivers-on.html
- running "sudo ./bcm43142_drivers.sh" I get a FATAL error : module wl not found
http://superuser.com/questions/77536...k-in-dual-boot
- another issue with wl. I don't really understand why wl isn't available or what it's main purpose is.
I have spent the past couple days trying to get this to work. I have exhausted the extent of my Linux knowledge and google resources. This is my last resort to make this frustrating card work. I will be monitoring the post and gladly run any tests necessary to make this work.
I'm really excited to learn about all Kali has to offer, but this issue is becoming very offputting. But, as usual, PICNIC. Thanks, everyone.
