Wireless issues on Maximus VII Formula Motherboard - FIXED!!! and how to guide :D

[Antaeus]

For those with a Republic of Gamers maximus VII formula motherbaord who are having wifi Issues I have managed to sort mine. I'm not sure if they use different hardware on some but ill give you a list here and how to do it. Its taken me 3 days but im chuffed being a complete novice at this

Firstly install Kali V2 and have the Ethernet connected so it can get any update packages.

1) When you have access tot he desktop do sudo apt-get update
2) then do sudo apt-get upgrade
3) once this is done go to /etc/apt and open sources, it should look something like this:

#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 _Sana_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150811-08:02]/ sana contrib main non-free

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 _Sana_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150811-08:02]/ sana contrib main non-free

deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib

deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free

# Debian 8 "Jessie"
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

You want to add the
# Debian 8 "Jessie"
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
line to the sources list.

Then follow these commands:
lspci -vvnn | grep -A 9 Network

This shows you the wireless card you have. Mine was..
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03)

(Take note of BCM4352)

The following procedure should work for these models: (as you can see mine is included) Broadcom BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4313, BCM4321, BCM4322, BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM43227, BCM43228, BCM43142, BCM4331, BCM4352, BCM4360 devices (wl)

Installation: (note, this is after you have done the above and added the link to the source file. Make sure you follow this step by step)

1)sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
(the DKMS will build the module for your device)

2) modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac (this will remove any conflicting devices)

3) modprobe wl

As soon as doing this my wifi showed up and I am now connected.

I hope this helps other people in my situation

[Gorehog]

Thank you! This worked great! I used it to resolve the same problem on a Thinkpad 11e with the BCM4352.

I had to modify /etc/apt/sources.list to look like this:
*******Code begins after this***********
#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 _Sana_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150811-08:02]/ sana contrib main non-free

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 _Sana_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150811-08:02]/ sana contrib main non-free

deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib

deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free

# Debian 8 "Jessie"
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
****Code ends on line above*****

Then I used the commands you gave. It worked perfectly. I think the problem was caused by me not having an ethernet connection when I installed from the thumb drive.

[Antaeus]

Ok been a while and after writing this post a while ago now I noticed the wifi wouldn't go in to monitor mode. However for my card which is named above I had to do something slightly different as outlined here.

In order to enable monitor mode it you have to do the following:

You have to type in a 1 to the file /proc/brcm_monitor0.

You may do this via the following shell command: echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/brcm_monitor0.

It will create a new interface. The interface is called prism0, and not mon0.

This worked for me however not on the first attempt, although nothing was done different on the second attempt. It would be interesting to know if this worked for anyone else.

Now i have more spare time on my hands I'll be playing around more with this. I've been held back due to work, family and a few major health issues which I'm glad are finally over

[Antaeus]

2016 Update - Kali Linux installed in Monday 12th September 2013

I decided to do a fresh install to see if there were any issues. And although it went quite smoothly there are some changes on installing the BCM4352 Wireless and you can also get monitor mode this way.

Firstly the source file above is redundant, however you still need to add this to the source file.

# Debian 8 "Jessie"
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

Then follow these steps

1)sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
(the DKMS will build the module for your device)

After this you may get an error show, however very nicely it also tells you what to type to fix the error. Once typing this and pressing enter, the error was fixed. And I carried on to the steps below.

2) modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac (this will remove any conflicting devices)

3) modprobe wl


Now to turn the Wireless in to monitor mode you have to type...
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/brcm_monitor0

This will enable monitor mode on the wifi however it will not be on mon0 but on prism0

for for example using airodump-ng you would type airodump-ng prism0 (Note do not use mon0 as this will not work, replace any instance of your commands that have mon0 in to prism0) Took me a while to figure this out properly and I did a password test on my own network to test it out. It all worked correctly as far as i am aware although I am awarre of some issues with prism0 with some off the apps. In cases like this it's best to use the terminal.

Bluetooth: As yet for this device (The Maximus Vii Formula Motherbaord has Wifi and Bluetooth on the same card) I am unable to get the Bluetooth active which I am working on. As yet I have had no success.

I also have an Nvida Graphics card and I installed the drivers via this tutorial.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers