Wireless doesn't work

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Please excuse me, I'm completely new to linux...

With that said I'm on an hp running dual boot with windows 10, some minor bugs with install but got through it.

During graphical install it detected and connectEd through my WiFi to my home network.

Once in kali 2016.1 though I have no wifi, I've tried ifconfig wlan0 up. It reads my wifi adapter, but it won't let me turn my wifi on.

When I ran lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 I get this for my adapter:

Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation wireless 7265 [8086:095a] (Rev 61)

Subsystem: Intel Corporation dual band wireless-AC 7265 [8086:5010]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

There's a whole list of things I've tried but none of its working, maybe I'm doing something wrong? So let's start from scratch and try it all.

Any help is greatly appreciated

[grid]

My experience with Kali (and BackTrack before that) is just disable the built-in wireless in BIOS, and go with one of the compatible wifi cards listed here in the forums.

This will save you a lot of time & aggravation...particularly if you are new to Kali (and Linux in general).

[Hexalogy]

My experience with Kali (and BackTrack before that) is just disable the built-in wireless in BIOS, and go with one of the compatible wifi cards listed here in the forums.

This will save you a lot of time & aggravation...particularly if you are new to Kali (and Linux in general).

what if my BIOS doesn't offer an option to turn it off?

[mmusket33]

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MTeams has seen this before with Hp and some other computers.

The problem may be that Windows has turned off the installed wifi device and linux cannot turn it on.

Boot into Windows and turn on your wifi devices thru Windows software.

Test it to make sure it is functioning,

Next reboot into linux and see if your system has been restored.

Never use the manual on/off switch to turn the system off. If you do turn it off by accident then you may only be able to turn it on when in Windows.

Musket Teams

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I was hoping to avoid this if possible. The more I look though the more it seems this is my only option for now.

When I log into windows my WiFi is on and working, there isn't a setting that shuts down the WiFi automatically in windows 10 is there? Will play with this some more in a bit

[[email protected]]

My experience with Kali (and BackTrack before that) is just disable the built-in wireless in BIOS, and go with one of the compatible wifi cards listed here in the forums.

This will save you a lot of time & aggravation...particularly if you are new to Kali (and Linux in general).

Alright i played with it, checked this checked that... overlooked one thing.

root@KaliLinux:~# rfkill list all
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

i kept looking at phy0: Wireless LAN...

when i noticed acer-wireless i knew what the problem was, except...

rfkill unblock all showed this

root@KaliLinux:~# rfkill unblock all
root@KaliLinux:~# rfkill list all
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

so i did some research and found the solution

root@KaliLinux:~# sudo modprobe -r acer-wmi
root@KaliLinux:~# sudo nano blacklist.config

inside blacklist add blacklist acer-wmi as a new line the save with (CTRL+0)

now returns this and internal wifi adapter is working properly.
root@KaliLinux:~# rfkill list
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

I hope this helps someone else out there

[chucho]

It works!!! thanks you.

[mozuk]

Hi mate, you have save me with this. I have an adittional question, Would it be posible not doing this steps every kali linux booting?