I installed Kali Linux on my Sony Vaio laptop (model number SVF142C1WW), but I had no wireless out of the box. Ethernet works fine, and I can connect to wireless networks normally from Windows running on the same machine.
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Apr 04, 2009 Right now, the ath5k driver is under heavy development, and the latest versions can be installed by downloading and compiling the driver source tarballs from linuxwireless.org. This will get the LED working for the wifi, and fix other issues you may not have been aware of.
I found this video on Google which suggested I install the compatible wireless driver. I downloaded it from kernel.org, extracted it to
~/Desktop and ran the following commands:
After these commands, my wireless NIC seems to be recognized (see
iwconfig output below), but I can't see any available wireless networks. Iphone 6 serial number format. Also, the driver disappears after restarting, and I have to run the commands again and reinstall to get the NIC to show up in iwconfig again.
Relevant information:
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I found one more thing, and now I'm totally confused..
See, while installing Kali Linux this is the menu you get in the beginning:
I went into the option Kali Graphical Install to install Kali Linux.
I believed to run live Kali, and I have to go in Kali - Boot Persistent. I went into that, and I got Kali desktop. And I found out that Wi-Fi drivers were perfectly fine and they were working well. I can connect to any Wi-Fi connections and all Wi-Fi connections were showing.
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What is this?
And there is one more thing. While installing Kali Linux, inbetween I got an error message saying the following..
But after I ran some update and upgrade commands, it is present in
/lib/firmware .
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Try installing firmware-linux by
sudo apt install firmware-linux this solved my problem in debian while i was using some Chinese WiFi dongle.
It will automatically install other firmware binaries.
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