wifi not showing in kali linux???

Question

wifi not showing in kali linux installed on vmware workstation , the net is connected by wired network , why is this happening have i done anything wrong in installation or what , and my windows is connected to wifi, tried the method of compact wireless.tar loading then the wifi shows but did not detect wifi devices

Answer 1

You are running inside a VM which does not automatically have access to the wifi hardware. Google for instrucvtions.

Answer 2

Check your hardware message logs using "dmesg", and also check if the system detects your hardware by "lspci" and/or "lshw -C network". Other option worth checking are "rfkill list" (to see if your hardware isn't blocked by software and/or hardware) and "iwconfig" (iwconfig is specifically tailored for wireless network cards whereas ifconfig is generally for all types of NICs)



Another possibility is that you have a driver conflict. Check with the chipset/manufacturer of your wireless NIC, and see what kernel modules are loaded with "lsmod". If you know the specific module name for the driver required for your NIC, then just do "modprobe ".



Plus, as far as I know it only works on physical installs rather than sitting behind in a VM as depending on your hardware and/or VM software, there might not have hardware PCI/PCIe passthrough to allow your VM access to physical expansion cards.

Answer 3

type "ifconfig" in terminal . you will get all list of harware which is able to connect with internet....find "Wlan0" or "wlan1"... and type "sudo infconfig wlan0 up"