Installing WiFi drivers on a Kali Linux laptop

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.

1 Answer

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