Just forwarding my reply to intrigeri to y'all.
Here's what I did to get the BCM43142 drivers for Kali Linux working. <This
info is from
http://www.chokepoint.net/2014/04/installing-broadcom-bcm43142-drivers-on.html
>
1. Get driver from Broadcom site
2. Untar it
3. Get patch file from Mindwerks
4. Patch
5. Make driver
6. Copy wl.ko to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless
7. Remove bcma module
8. Blacklist bcma
9. Insert wl
10. Connect to wireless network.
This all worked fine on Kali, and so I took the files and tried it on Tails
1.1, did everything up till make, had a hard time with that, I don't recall
ever getting it to make in Tails properly (I don't know much about make so
I couldn't do much troubleshooting), so I made it in Kali and saved the
files, bumped over to Tails, and resumed at step 6. I couldn't blacklist
bcma module though because the blacklist.conf file doesn't exist. After
step 9 I could see my wireless networks with all their details, but when I
try to connect it just loops, always failing (on both a WPA2 and open).
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:50 AM, OfficialXian . <official.xian@???>
wrote:
> They can be used in Debian, but I'm not sure they're in a specific
> package. I'm out right now but I'll drop another email later with a
> description as to what I did to get it working in Kali.
> On Jul 30, 2014 3:26 PM, "intrigeri" <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> OfficialXian . wrote (30 Jul 2014 18:57:17 GMT) :
>> > Hey guys, in one of the next releases can you include the Broadcom
>> > BCM43142 wireless/bluetooth drivers?
>>
>> Are these drivers available in Debian? If so, in what package?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> intrigeri
>>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> Hey guys, in one of the next releases can you include the Broadcom
> BCM43142 wireless/bluetooth drivers? I don't care about having bluetooth,
> but having wireless would help a great load! It's a pain to use my phone's
> tether, and it takes up my USB port, of which I only have 2 :(.
>
> I have tried a few times to make the drivers and load the modules, but
> I've only gotten the wireless to *see* networks. I can see my home
> networks, and I can attempt to join, but it'll just time-out. This could be
> because I **make**'d the driver in another distro (Kali) because **make**
> is messed up in Tails for some reason I always get an error.
>
> Thanks!
> ~xian
>
>
