Linux doesn't recognize Broadcom Wi-Fi bcm43142 driver

[Marcx]

Hi, I have a live USB version install of 64-bit Kali 2017.1 installed and I also built persistence for settings, files and such to be saved. However, I can't get the Broadcom wireless card to show up. It just doesn't appear as an interface whatsoever. I've spent hours and hours searching the net, tried every single method existing, however it seems I'm cursed or something xD. Here are the outputs of some of the commands...

iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

ifconfig

eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 70:5a:0f:66:0c:f0  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 320  bytes 26236 (25.6 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 320  bytes 26236 (25.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev e3)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev e3)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev e3)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev e3)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP Thermal Management Controller (rev 03)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 07)
0d:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430] (rev 83)
13:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Here are some of the methods I tried:
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...-on-Kali-Linux
https://askubuntu.com/questions/5586...reless-drivers
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-inst...-on-Kali-Linux

And those are just some of them... I've spent days and nights installing headers, apt-get updating, I installed broadcom-sta-common, broadcom-sta-dkms. broadcom-sta-source, I did it all, I'm out of ideas, if someone could help, I would be really really thankful.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

[Mister_X]

Just FYI, ifconfig only shows the interfaces that are up. To show all of them, use -a. However, iwconfig shows all of them.

Have you looked at dmesg to see if there is any driver loaded or errors related to it?

[Marcx]

Have a look at dmesg... Because of this thread being too long otherwise, I included errors only

dmesg

[    5.658482] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECWT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
[    5.660090] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.FN00._ON] (Node ffff90b5de0fc870), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
[    5.661105] acpi PNP0C0B:00: Failed to change power state to D0
[    5.662370] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECWT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
[    5.663613] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.FN00._ON] (Node ffff90b5de0fc870), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
[    5.664998] acpi PNP0C0B:00: Failed to set initial power state
[    5.668152] wmi: Mapper loaded
[    5.668620] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECRD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
[    5.668626] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.TZ00._TMP] (Node ffff90b5de0fc528), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
[    5.668782] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECRD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
[    5.668787] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.TZ00._TMP] (Node ffff90b5de0fc528), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
[    5.668869] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECRD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
[    5.668874] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.TZ01._TMP] (Node ffff90b5de101410), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
[    5.668940] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECRD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
[    5.668945] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.TZ01._TMP] (Node ffff90b5de101410), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
[    5.692021] r8169 0000:07:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[    5.704426] acpi PNP0C0B:00: Cannot transition from (unknown) to D3hot
[    5.758220] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
[   62.349247] kvm: disabled by bios
[   62.409106] kvm: disabled by bios
[   64.580841] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1001 tx timeout
[   72.580377] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Reading local version info failed (-110)
[  133.785925] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_DEF) UVC control 8 on unit 1: -32 (exp. 1).
[  133.922496] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_DEF) UVC control 8 on unit 1: -32 (exp. 1).
[  232.894426] usb 1-3: device not accepting address 12, error -71
[  288.042992] usb 1-3: device not accepting address 15, error -71

[Mister_X]

I mean related to that broadcom adapter.