so i am running win 8.1 and booting a linux based os with live usb
the os is actually to test wireless networks' strength but whenever i open any program it says:-
"no wireless interfaces were found
you need a wireless adapter or update your drivers"
it runs well on my other laptops with no problem but idk why this happens to this hp laptop of mine
it runs broadcom and realtek wireless network cards[both inbuilt]
any ideas?

What is the linux distro? Some distros don't have non-free drivers so you need to download the manually (eg debian).


What does ifconfig and lspci show?

its wifislax final 4.9
and how can i use ifconfig and lspci?

open a terminal emulator
type in ifconfig
type in lspci

well idk if i did it correctly but i opened terminal and used the commands you told me and i got this:-


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sorry for the big images lol

http://askubuntu.com/questions/45965...04-trusty-tahr

I googled and this is what I got. Read it carefully before doing anything.

also it looks a lot like you're using a distribution that is meant to be used live through a USB and made for pentesting.. you probably don't want to use that as a daily distro.

yes i am using it through live usb its not daily distro
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i am unable to understand that link you gave me

What distro is it?

wifislax final 4.9
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i got this from a website:-

"In the first tests with Wifislax, no wireless card was found, and thus no wireless networks, because my laptop has an older Intel wireless card with a Calexico2 chip that Wifislax – along with many other distributions – does not immediately support.

In this case, I first needed to obtain updated firmware for the WLAN chipset and then store the files with a suffix of .fw that I unzipped from the downloaded archive in the /lib/firmware/ directory. In contrast, two lab machines with wireless chipsets by Atheros had no problems and immediately cooperated with the ath5k and ath9k Linux drivers."

what does this mean?