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Thread: WiFi Problems : not able to see/connect to networks

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    Exclamation WiFi Problems : not able to see/connect to networks

    So I just made Kali Linux my machines OS, only to find that it doesn't have a WiFi connection option. I have done a few things, including getting wlan0 and wlan1 by using compat-wireless, but I'm still displaying no WiFi networks, when I know full well there are at least 3 in my area. I'm currently using an Ethernet connection, but can't be expected to always have a wired connection. I ran a lspci -vv -s 01:00.0 to find my driver information, and the following is the read-out:

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     01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
    	Subsystem: Lenovo BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
    	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 35
    	Region 0: Memory at f0a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
    	Region 2: Memory at f0800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
    	Capabilities: <access denied>
    	Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
    	Kernel modules: bcma
    Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am a student interested in Information Security and Digital Forensics hence the switch to Kali, but I really need WiFi.
    Last edited by haken29a; 2016-02-05 at 23:04.

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    You need to follow the instructions on my previous reply:

    # apt-get update
    # apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
    This will also install the recommended wireless-tools package. DKMS will build the wl module for your system.
    Unload conflicting modules:
    # modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac bcma
    Load the wl module:
    # modprobe wl
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoneyFairy View Post
    You need to follow the instructions on my previous reply:

    # apt-get update
    # apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
    This will also install the recommended wireless-tools package. DKMS will build the wl module for your system.
    Unload conflicting modules:
    # modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac bcma
    Load the wl module:
    # modprobe wl
    So, I ran that, and here is the read-out:

    Code:
    root@kali-linux:~# apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-amd64
    E: Unable to locate package broadcom-sta-dkms
    So... What do I do now?

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    Did you do apt-get update?

    Post your sources.list file

    Did you install Kali using an external mirror? (ie. while installing did you choose to update from the mirror)
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoneyFairy View Post
    Did you do apt-get update?

    Post your sources.list file

    Did you install Kali using an external mirror? (ie. while installing did you choose to update from the mirror)
    When installing Kali,i did't use mirror. And now i can't apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) , can't locate the package, what should i do ? i already check the source.list, but still not work...

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    Installing Kali without a mirror causes issues [for me at least]

    Quote Originally Posted by dlqswd View Post
    When installing Kali,i did't use mirror. And now i can't apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) , can't locate the package, what should i do ? i already check the source.list, but still not work...
    I had the same issue. I could not fix it so i just reinstalled kali and used a mirror, after that, everything worked.
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