I recently installed Kali on my IBM Thinkpad G40, and realized the only pentest packages installed are NMAP and Netcat, nothing else. I tried apt-get update and upgrade, and it tells me it's all current.

The other issue is with the Rosewill RNX-n600ube wifi adapter. In the network manager, it says "device not ready, no driver", whic I believe is wrong, as I have used this same disk to install Kali on another machine, and it installed a default driver that worked fine with the RNX. Am I better off reinstalling the whole deal? Ifconfig just shows the ethernet interface, and the lo interface, nothing for wireless. iwconfig shows:
wlan 0 802.11 abgn ESSID: off/any
mode:managed access point: not associated tx power 0dbm
retry short limit 7 RTS thr off fragmnt thr off
encryption key off
power management off

I tried using wicd, and it didn't work either.


Any advice before I reinstall?

OK, reinstalled, made sure "kali linux tools" was checked during the install options, as well as the other items checked by default, still no go. refuses to load the driver or install the tools.

Device shows up in lsusb as bus 001 device 003: id 148f:3572 Ralink technology corp. rt3572 wireless adapter

and dmesg shows
[ 272.244077] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[ 272.392531] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=3572
[ 272.392543] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 272.392549] usb 1-3: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
[ 272.392552] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Ralink
[ 272.392555] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 1.0
[ 272.508075] usb 1-3: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[ 272.649479] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 3572, rev 0223 detected
[ 272.677962] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 0009 detected
[ 272.679267] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 272.782887] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
[ 272.782938] rt2800usb 1-3:1.0: firmware: failed to load rt2870.bin (-2)
[ 272.782946] rt2800usb 1-3:1.0: Direct firmware load for rt2870.bin failed with error -2

wow, nothing? thankfully I figured it out. The CD I was using was a "mini install" or something, and I guess only has the base system. I realized something was up when I saw the DVD was only 20+MB

Hi...

Strangely enough, I just now noticed your thread and might've been able to lend a hand, however, I'm glad you got it fixed.

If you would, please mark this thread as "SOLVED" by clicking on "Thread Tools" directly above your initial post. Thanks!

Regards...

one of the reasons NO ONE answered is that YOU !!! added a replay and thus YOU removed this thread from the NO REPLAY software that
WOULD HAVE kept this thread VISIBLE!!!


do not bump your own posts
if no one has replied YET then ADD TO THE POST

bumping it only hurts YOU

also we expect that the normal user of Kali is THE TARGET user for kali
the very experienced LINUX SECURITY PROFESSIONAL

Aren't you just an all around swell guy. If you can't be civil, why even comment?