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    Macbook Air 2013 wlan0 not found

    I've been having major issues getting wireless to run on this machine; keep in mind that Macbook Air models do not have ethernet ports so I have to download packages onto a USB drive and then transfer them across.

    I'm getting this error "FATAL: Module wl not found" but I can't find where to download and install the wl module.

    Some necessary information:
    - Kali 2.0
    - HDD Dual Boot
    - ran ifconfig, lspci, rfkill, and dmesg
    - FATAL: Module wl not found was a regular error
    - broadcom-sta-dkms-6.30.223.348-3_all.deb was downloaded and installed, as well as a few other packages, I just don't have those package names on me right now. Will update when I do.

    ifconfig output:
    Code:
    root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0
    wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@kali:~# ifconfig -a
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
              RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
              RX bytes:1200 (1.1 KiB)  TX bytes:1200 (1.1 KiB)
    lspci output:
    Code:
    root@kali:~# lspci -nn | grep 0280
    03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
    lsusb output:
    Code:
    root@kali:~# lsusb
    Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0781:5580 SanDisk Corp. SDCZ80 Flash Drive
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:0291 Apple, Inc. 
    Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05ac:828f Apple, Inc. 
    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    rfkill output:
    Code:
    root@kali:~# rfkill list all
    0: hci0: Bluetooth
    	Soft blocked: no
    	Hard blocked: no
    I also input dmesg and saw that the Broadcom adapter was loaded; just didn't include the output here because it was too long.

    Any help would be much appreciated, I just can't get my head around this.

    Thanks,

    ghost_
    Last edited by ghost_; 2016-01-21 at 09:34.

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    Mac users have problem with that driver. Read this post how they solve it.
    https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...l+mac+broadcom

    If it not helpful I suggest to use wifi usb card instead of that
    Repetitio est mater studiorum

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    Thank you very much for the link, will go through it now.

    ghost_

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    Issue has been resolved, thank you for your help.

    ghost_

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