Linux – Kali 3.12 – wlan0 not found

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I am running Linux Kali 3.12-amd64 on the newest VMWare Workstation on a HP Folio 9470m

My network adapters are as followed:

Intel (R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection

VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMNet 8

When I type 'ifconfig' on Kali I don't get any information on wlan0

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Lqueryvg is on the right track:

If Kali is running as a vmware guest, vmware should see your laptop wlan0 device, not Kali. Kali would see a virtual ethernet adapter (like the one you've shown). This would then be bridged/routed/NAT'ed through the vmware hypervisor possibly through to your wireless adapter and the outside word, depending on how you've set it up in vmware.

However, if you are using Kali, I'm guessing that you are going to want to put your wireless card into monitor mode to use things like airmon-ng, aircrack-ng, kismet, etc. I'm not sure if you can do this successfully through a virtual device.

I know that you can do this with a USB wireless dongle that you tell your hypervisor to "attach" directly to the VM (bypassing the host).

You could also just boot your system into a kali live cd. Then you should have no trouble seeing wlan0 :-) .

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Linux – Kali Linux not detecting wireless network in dual boot

Your Wireless Card BCM43142 is not supported by open source driver b43 (See this)
Try installing their proprietary driver Broadcom Linux STA

Follow these steps to Build and install driver (Use root shell sudo -i):

Install required packages and tools

# echo 'deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free' > /etc/apt/sources.list
# echo 'deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free' > /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
# apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
# apt-get build-dep linux

Download proper Broadcom Linux STA driver from here (32-bit or 64-bit) http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Extract the tarball

# mkdir hybrid_wl
# cd hybrid_wl
# tar xzf <path-to-tarball>/hybrid-v35*

Build Driver as Linux loadable Kernel Module
```
# make clean
# make
```
This will build wl.ko file. If this file is not present it means there were errors while building. Now you need to remove conflicting drivers. Check if any of confilicting drivers are present
```
# lsmod  | grep "brcmsmac\|b43\|ssb\|bcma\|wl"
```

Remove those modules which are present already:

# rmmod b43
# rmmod brcmsmac
# rmmod ssb
# rmmod bcma
# rmmod wl

and Blacklist them to prevent loading them in future

# echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# echo "blacklist bcma" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# echo "blacklist brcmsmac" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Install the module
```
# insmod lib80211
# insmod wl.ko
```
Wait for few seconds for Network Manager to detect the new driver installation and check if Wifi is functional.

The instructions are taken from here.

Hope this helps. :)

Linux – Kali linux 1.0.9 Wlan0 not found

I think

You may not have sufficient privileges
Run ip n show
Run ifconfig again.

Do you get exactly no output? If you do get output, but not on wlan0, you may have an old wireless card that isn't wlan0. It might show something like this:

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>

That's the info that you want, just you're wireless card interface has a different name.

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