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Am new to Linux. Just downloaded and installed Kali Linux 1.0.7 yesterday.
I have a wireless connection in the house.
But Kali doesn't seem to be detecting the network. I go to the network icon and see only wired connections there.
When I type ifconfig there appears to be an ethernet connection detected:
$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:89:84e5:f0:37
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txquelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0B)
Interrupt:16
lo Link encap: local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.1.1 Mask: 255.1.1.0
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 txquelen:0
RX bytes:1200(1.1 KiB) TX bytes:1200(1.1KiB)
But when I type
$ iwconfig
eth0: no wireless extensions
lo: no wireless extensions
How can I make it detect the connection? Please help. :(
EDIT 1:
$ lspci -nnk
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [1969:10a0] (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3802] Kernel Driver in use : alx
02:00.0 Network controller [0280] :Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01) Subsystem:Lenovo Device [17aa:0611] Kernel Driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Are you dual-booting with Windows 8/8.1 with fast start-up enabled? – Cornelius – 2014-07-01T06:22:44.560
Drivers might be missing for your card. Attach output of
sudo lshw -class network
– abhishekkannojia – 2014-07-01T09:45:41.273Dual Booting with Windows 7 64-bit. As for drivers I'll have to check and see – Gaurav Menezes – 2014-07-01T09:57:19.977
bash command not found :(
Is it lshw? that's the part not found – Gaurav Menezes – 2014-07-01T10:04:14.190
Ok, I guess
lshw
is not installed. Attach thissudo lspci -nnk
– abhishekkannojia – 2014-07-01T10:07:49.190Actually for Kali Linux, even wicd manager is not installed. Is this normal? – Gaurav Menezes – 2014-07-01T10:30:31.790
Yeah, wicd is not installed by default. Default is Gnome's Network Manager. And attach output of
sudo lspci -nnk
– abhishekkannojia – 2014-07-01T10:39:35.810Very sorry but I'm not able to access the snapshot.
But I did check and it said that ethernet controller was some Atheron card and network controller was Broadcomm BCM43142 – Gaurav Menezes – 2014-07-01T10:48:39.910
Here's the portion: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [1969:10a0] (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3802] Kernel Driver in use : alx – Gaurav Menezes – 2014-07-01T10:51:44.920
Please update the original post with additional details and Don't post outputs in comments. And I'm interested in Wireless LAN Controller – abhishekkannojia – 2014-07-01T10:55:48.310
02:00.0 Network controller [0280] :Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01) Subsystem:Lenovo Device [17aa:0611] Kernel Driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge – Gaurav Menezes – 2014-07-01T10:57:27.343