I am running Linux Kali 1.0.9-amd64 on the Dell core i3 Inspiron.When I type 'ifconfig' on Kali I don't get any information on wlan0.
3 Answers
I think
You may not have sufficient privileges
Run
ip n show
Run
ifconfig
again.
Do you get exactly no output? If you do get output, but not on wlan0, you may have an old wireless card that isn't wlan0. It might show something like this:
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
That's the info that you want, just you're wireless card interface has a different name.
You have to iwconfig instead of ifconfig
root@kali:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
root@kali:~# **lspci | grep -i wireless**
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Note that in my case im on a desktop with a PCI card so if you plug a USB wireless stick change the
lspci to lsusb
root@kali:~# lsusb | grep -i wireless
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 148f:2070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2070 Wireless Adapter
if you still have no output at all you have to dig about your laptop or open the wirless card slot and note the exact name of your card and do some search on compta wirless and the aircrack-ng forum or other forums related to debian and your card without forget about injection
Sometimes a mother board needs some special driver that you can find in the repo under dkms. Install your required dkms and it will be fixed automatically.