Hiya all,
I just installed the Kali rolling edition 2016.1.
I've installed it on Acer Aspire One D270 (Intel based) and I keep getting error messages while attempting to boot the system. It goes something like this
Supposedly it's a broadcom driver problem so I downloaded the Broadcom STA driver but I can't install it. After extracting the files I can't run the "make clean" command because it results in an error:
Readme file for the driver installation says:
So I'm quite stuck now, don't know what to do or what to google for any more. Any ideas?

Entering "pae/build: No such file or directory" into Google leads you to various solutions, including the installation of kernel-devel.

Let us know how you get on.

I googled it and most of the answers are supposed to lie within the "sudo apt-get update" which won't work for me. This is the result:
I also tried with but it all it does is this:
I opened the sources.list file but it's completely empty. So I don't really know what I'm looking for here, lost in the woods. I'm not sure if somehow I messed up the sources.list file because I've tried so many things already. I tried fixing the 'apt-get update' error in so many ways that I googled up but zilch.

Can you please post the output from

OK I'm getting worried now, less and less commands are working lol

Did you install the full, light or mini version of Kali?

Hi...

Another way of supplying the information hydrurga asked for is to navigate to "/etc/apt/sources.list" and open this file with a text editor. Please copy and paste all of the information found in that file and post it with your next reply.

Regards...

Thanks Ardvark. Sometimes the info is kept in the individual .list files within the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory (as it is, for example on my Mint 17.3 system), and I assumed that perhaps something like that was at play when OP said that his sources.list file was empty (although "empty" may not actually be empty ).

So, if OP reads this and could cut and paste the contents of those .list files, ensuring the names of the files themselves are included, then that would be a great help.

You're welcome and you may be right, too. We'll see what the OP posts back with.

Regards...

one of the issues for the op might be that this is a laptop and Kali disables the network for security reasons

as for "broadcom" this IS A KNOWN issue

please search the kali forum for "broadcom"
https://forums.kali.org/forum.php

Hi John VV...

That's a good point, one that I assumed the OP took care of, perhaps wrongly.

@lkomarci: If that is the case, please see this page to enable it.

Regards...

Problem solved guys.

Kali not wanting to boot doesn't actually have anything to do with the brcmsmac-related error messages, it's the gdm3 that's obviously faulty. A friend of mine solved the problem. So this is what he tells me he did:

He turned off gdm3 with system ctl (although not necessary). The most important thing was running Kali in runlevel 3. He did that by editing /boot/grub/grub.cfg and added "3" to the proper spot (beat's me where that is). Then he installed the packet containing the startx command and with apt-get installed xinit so now I start the GUI with startx. Also the the ~/xinitrc file he added a command that starts gnome-session.


That's it folks

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Great to hear, lkomarci. Thanks for letting us know what you did to resolve the problem.

Can you please mark this thread as "Solved"? Many thanks.

My pleasure. Btw, I've just installed the Kali light version, no error messages whatsoever and no need to tamper with gdm3. Perhaps they messed something up

Hi...

Glad you got it worked out.

Regards...