Installing Broadcom drivers

In the following recipe, we'll perform the installation of Broadcom's official Linux hybrid wireless driver. Using a Broadcom wireless USB adapter gives us the greatest possibility of success in terms of getting our wireless USB access point to work on Kali. For the rest of the recipes in this book, we will assume installation of the Broadcom wireless drivers.

Getting ready

An Internet connection is required to complete this recipe.

How to do it...

Let's begin the process of installing Broadcom drivers:

1. Open a terminal window and download the appropriate Broadcom driver from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php:

   cd /tmp/
   wget http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz
   

   

2. Extract the downloaded driver using the following script:

   mkdir broadcom
   tar xvfz hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz –C /tmp/broadcom
   

3. Modify the wl_cfg80211.c file since there's a bug in version 5.100.82.112 that prevents compiling the code...