Hello,
I have recently installed Kali Linux on a Macbook Air 2017. Everything on Kali works except for the wifi. I have been trying for a couple of days now but i have had no luck following others solutions as I am getting different errors.
Below I will post the results i get from commands to better help you understand my problem. For the iwconfig command, the wlan0 shows up because i have plugged in an external wifi usb stick. All help is appreciated.
└─# lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. BCM4360 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter [106b:0117]
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: bcma
└─# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"TELUS0404-2.4G"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: FC:2B:B2:AD:4B:32
Bit Rate=52 Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key
ff
Power Management
n
Link Quality=69/70 Signal level=-41 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:10 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
└─# rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy3: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
my /etc/apt/sources.list
i added the debian buster because i could not find the broadcom-sta-dkms package any other way
deb http::/http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http::/httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main-contrib non-free
└─# apt-get update
Hit:1
http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Get:2
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB]
Get:3
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages [7909 kB]
Get:4
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main Translation-en [5969 kB]
Get:5
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Contents (deb) [37.8 MB]
Get:6
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/contrib amd64 Packages [50.1 kB]
Get:7
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/contrib Translation-en [44.2 kB]
Get:8
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/contrib amd64 Contents (deb) [103 kB]
Get:9
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/non-free amd64 Packages [87.8 kB]
Get:10
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/non-free Translation-en [88.9 kB]
Get:11
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/non-free amd64 Contents (deb) [861 kB]
Fetched 53.0 MB in 17s (3059 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
└─# apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
linux-image-amd64 is already the newest version (6.5.6-1kali1).
linux-headers-amd64 is already the newest version (6.5.6-1kali1).
broadcom-sta-dkms is already the newest version (6.30.223.271-10).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up broadcom-sta-dkms (6.30.223.271-10) ...
Removing old broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 DKMS files...
Deleting module broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 completely from the DKMS tree.
Loading new broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 DKMS files...
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/usr/src/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271/dkms.conf)
Building for 6.5.0-kali3-amd64
Building initial module for 6.5.0-kali3-amd64
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/source/dkms.conf)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.5.0-kali3-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package broadcom-sta-dkms (--configure):
installed broadcom-sta-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
broadcom-sta-dkms
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
└─# cat /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/make.log
DKMS make.log for broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 for kernel 6.5.0-kali3-amd64 (x86_64)
Sat Jan 13 17:04:17 PST 2024
/bin/sh: 1: [: Illegal number:
/bin/sh: 1: [: Illegal number:
Wireless Extension is the only possible API for this kernel version
Using Wireless Extension API
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/6.5.0-kali3-amd64/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add '+' to parent make rule.
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.5.0-kali3-amd64'
CFG80211 API is prefered for this kernel version
Using CFG80211 API
Kernel architecture is X86_64
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.o
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c: In function ‘osl_dma_alloc_consistent’:
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:603:14: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_alloc_consistent’; did you mean ‘osl_dma_alloc_consistent’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
603 | va = pci_alloc_consistent(osh->pdev, size, (dma_addr_t*)pap);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| osl_dma_alloc_consistent
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:603:12: warning: assignment to ‘void *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
603 | va = pci_alloc_consistent(osh->pdev, size, (dma_addr_t*)pap);
| ^
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c: In function ‘osl_dma_free_consistent’:
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:616:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_free_consistent’; did you mean ‘osl_dma_free_consistent’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
616 | pci_free_consistent(osh->pdev, size, va, (dma_addr_t)pa);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| osl_dma_free_consistent
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c: In function ‘osl_dma_map’:
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:626:38: error: ‘PCI_DMA_TODEVICE’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘DMA_TO_DEVICE’?
626 | dir = (direction == DMA_TX)? PCI_DMA_TODEVICE: PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| DMA_TO_DEVICE
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:626:38: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:626:56: error: ‘PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘DMA_FROM_DEVICE’?
626 | dir = (direction == DMA_TX)? PCI_DMA_TODEVICE: PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| DMA_FROM_DEVICE
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:659:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_map_single’; did you mean ‘dma_map_single’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
659 | return (pci_map_single(osh->pdev, va, size, dir));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| dma_map_single
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c: In function ‘osl_dma_unmap’:
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:668:38: error: ‘PCI_DMA_TODEVICE’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘DMA_TO_DEVICE’?
668 | dir = (direction == DMA_TX)? PCI_DMA_TODEVICE: PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| DMA_TO_DEVICE
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:668:56: error: ‘PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘DMA_FROM_DEVICE’?
668 | dir = (direction == DMA_TX)? PCI_DMA_TODEVICE: PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| DMA_FROM_DEVICE
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:669:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_unmap_single’; did you mean ‘dma_unmap_single’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
669 | pci_unmap_single(osh->pdev, (uint32)pa, size, dir);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| dma_unmap_single
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c: In function ‘osl_reg_map’:
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:949:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ioremap_nocache’; did you mean ‘ioremap_cache’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
949 | return (ioremap_nocache((unsigned long)pa, (unsigned long)size));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| ioremap_cache
/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:949:17: warning: returning ‘int’ from a function with return type ‘void *’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
949 | return (ioremap_nocache((unsigned long)pa, (unsigned long)size));
| ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.5.0-kali3-common/scripts/Makefile.build:248: /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/shared/linux_osl.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.5.0-kali3-common/Makefile:2059: /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.5.0-kali3-common/Makefile:246: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.5.0-kali3-amd64'
make: *** [Makefile:177: all] Error 2
└─# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up broadcom-sta-dkms (6.30.223.271-10) ...
Removing old broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 DKMS files...
Deleting module broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 completely from the DKMS tree.
Loading new broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 DKMS files...
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/usr/src/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271/dkms.conf)
Building for 6.5.0-kali3-amd64
Building initial module for 6.5.0-kali3-amd64
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/source/dkms.conf)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.5.0-kali3-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package broadcom-sta-dkms (--configure):
installed broadcom-sta-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
broadcom-sta-dkms
