Broadcom BCM43142 - Driver support on Kali Linux?

Question

I am attempting to configure a new netbook with Kali Linux. Everything seems to be fine, except wifi isn't working. Apparently the computer has a Broadcom BCM43142 wireless card, which doesn't have built in drivers. Where should I look to find them, and what are my possible workarounds? Should I attempt to use an older Broadcom driver?

From lspci -knn ^{Manually copied, typos are possible}

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
DeviceName: Broadcom WLAN Broadcom Nami 43142 bgn 1x1 + BT 4 LE PCIe+USB NGFF 1630
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [103c:804a]

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More searching has led me to find a couple of deb packages, which I'm listing below, still figuring out which is the right one for my version of Kali.

• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl
• https://wiki.debian.org/wl

My Kali version is

Linux kali 4.3.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-5kali4 (2016-01-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Solution

After hours of searching, I found the broadcom-sta-dkms package, which explicitly supports my device, as mentioned in the README.txt. I also had to install the appropriate linux headers for my device. Initially I ran into several problems, particularly a message about "no headers for current kernal version" but after doing a full apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and apt-get dist-upgrade I was able to apt-get install broadcom-sta-dkms, which built a new initrm and successfully got my wireless working.

Comments

[GAD3R]

Please add the output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A2

[C. Ross]

@GAD3R As you requested.