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I have a Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter. How do I make it work with Kali/Debian Linux?

I can't get my OS to recognize the WiFi connections.

Gareth
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    Try the kali Linux forums https://forums.kali.org/forumdisplay.php?1-Kali-Linux-Forums you may find some good answers there – Arlix Nov 09 '15 at 08:30
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    Kali is based on Debian so a Debian forum should be able to help you as this question isn't specific to Kali. – Neil Smithline Nov 09 '15 at 08:56
  • hello sir, let me google this for you...results found: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1286503 -- this is what you need! enjoy! (kali, like back track kali's parent, is based on ubuntu) –  Nov 09 '15 at 10:05

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First download driver compat-wireless-2.6.30.tar.bz2.

tar -xf compat-wireless-2.6.30.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2.6.30
make
sudo make install
sudo make unload

Then restart OS and install wicd to see if it recognize the wifi adapter...

apt-get install wicd