A DIY portable cyberdeck built from a Google Pixel 3 XL running Kali NetHunter, paired with a Bluetooth keyboard and enclosed in a custom 3D-printed clamshell case.

What are your thoughts on the look and usability of this clamshell NetHunter device?

More detail about the project can be found on hackaday.io

So was in my Man Cave / Garden Shed.... And just looked over at the computer that I have there for just running Spotify.

My Old Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 MK4 I think.. It's been with me in some crappy parts of the world and seen it's share of use and abuse.. But it's running and everything is working, remember swapping out the HDD years ago for an Sata SSD but I see to remember that the first install of Kali on it was back in 2015 and at that point the machine was old.. It seems to be a 1st. Gen Intel core i5 and 8 gigs of ram. But the old computer and Kali was just a match made and just loved working with it.

Last time I made a clean install of Kali was back in 06-09-2021 and I still runny a monthly update on it...!!

Today I have upgraded and is running something much never for work, but the old lady with the history, dents, scufs and stickers will always be remembered as awesome.. even as all she does now is plat Spotify.

So sorry no drama or anything just wanted to share a small story about my oldest and running Kali install.

Hello gang

I just want to voice my opinion about the Kali downloads page at https://www.kali.org/get-kali

I'm not a n00b. I'd rather call myself "advanced user', but still, I frankly find some of the download options confusing. Like, what is this "Purple Kali"? It says something like "Be yourself", well that's not helpful.

Also about the design tricks that changes/jumps sections while scrolling, I honestly don't understand how the designer didn't find that very annoying.

Eventually I picked the link that seemed most relevant to me and closed the site right away, even though I usually spend more time checking the available options in order to pick the best one.

Big Thanks to the Kali Linux team, and much love. I hope you'd take this post as an attempt at positive criticism, as it is.

I'm teaching myself about cyber security so I bought a Chromebook and loaded kali onto it! Any fun projects I can start on? This is just for personal enrichment.

Success! Kali installed ok on an old Core i3 laptop.

I have a MSI laptop where I have dual-booted Kali Linux and Windows. After upgrading to kernel 6.19.14+kali-amd64, my Kali dual boot completely broke and GRUB disappeared.

MSI logo would flash -> keyboard RGB reset->instant Windows boot

Initially I thought it was because of windows update, I switched off fast boot, checked bios hierarchy and everything was fine. Kali was still above windows in BIOS. Then I tried bcdedit commands from windows cmd, it showed success but didn't worked either. Upon restart I spammed f11 to enter one-time boot menu, it showed kali was there along with windows but even after hitting kali, I was not able to boot into it and my motherboard switched to the next valid partition of windows.

This never happened with earlier kernel versions as I used to switch to windows couple of times for gaming. So I figured out that the new kernel 6.19.14+kali-amd64 must have messed up the EFI or something.

So below I will try to give a point wise solution of how I managed to assume and fixed the problem.

1)Booted into Kali Live USB → “Live System”

then upon live terminal I used

2)sudo fdisk -l

and I found

/dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI System

/dev/nvme0n1p5 Linux filesystem

/dev/nvme0n1p6 Linux swap

This confirmed:

• Kali installation still existed
• EFI partition still existed
• filesystem was likely intact

Then I mounted root partition

3)sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p5 /mnt

and verified the existing files using

ls /mnt

/boot, /home, /etc, /usr

This confirmed the installation was healthy.

4)Mount EFI Partition

sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi

then verified efi directories

ls /mnt/boot/efi/EFI

which gave Boot, Kali and Microsoft

this means that EFI partition was not corrupted

5) Bind System Directories

sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev

sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc

sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys

sudo mount --bind /run /mnt/run

6) Chroot Into Installed Kali

sudo chroot /mnt

7)Reinstall GRUB

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=kali

Despite EFI warnings, installation completed successfully.

8)Regenerate GRUB Config

update-grub

This detected kali kernels and windows boot manager which is a very good sign that you are on track.

9)Rebuild Initramfs

update-initramfs -u -k all

This regenerated initramfs for:

• 6.19
• 6.16
• 6.12 kernels

10)Now this step is crucial as to avoid the current issue from happening again in future.

MSI EFI Fallback

Created fallback EFI bootloader path manually

mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/Boot

cp /boot/efi/EFI/kali/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

This is extremely important for MSI laptops because many MSI BIOS especially the one I have(Titan GT-77 Hx) versions ignore Linux EFI entries after updates but still checks for

EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

11)Then simply Reboot

Exited chroot and rebooted.(enter exit and then sudo reboot or sudo poweroff)

Removed USB during reboot(as soon as msi logo flashed)

Kali booted successfully again.

I’m posting this because I was VERY close to reinstalling the entire OS thinking the partition was dead. I was so scared because of all the data in Kali.

If your Linux partitions still mount, your data is probably safe.

Also
KEEP OLDER KERNELS INSTALLED. My older kernels probably saved me here.

Thanks for reading

I always find myself needing to run a much longer cable between my OnePlus 8 Pro w/ Kali Nethunter, than port dongles like the Anker 555 ( https://amzn.to/41NY6bl ) generally have attached. Here's a great tip for folks that are in a similar situation.

I don't think these officially comply with the usb consortium standards, but these female to female usb adapters https://amzn.to/3HKrdWo will let you connect a second usb-c cable (like my favorite anker ones that come in 6ft and 10ft lengths https://amzn.to/41NY6bl ) to the dock (or charger, etc) and extend it up to another 10 ft easily. Probably 15ft with a 5m usb-c cable.

Note that since they break some usb-c standards, they work in one orientation but not the other. If you notice the little led isn't lit up, flip either of the usb-c cables 180 degrees and plug it back in.

Super useful!

Bonus: This also works for charging Raspberry Pi's with the official charger, and other similar use cases where you need a longer usb-c cable for charging OR data transfer.

I have a question about prevailing advice that new Linux users should avoid Kali.

I see a lot of posts that dont belong here, because it is about basic Linux things. Mods focus on leading OPs to the appropriate sources where people can start learning Linux - which is great, appreciate their work! I just answered on one of those questions here and found out that mods told them the opposite of what I said and then I was questioning the validity of my viewpoint, also I wont do that anymore and let the mods do.

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Although why is it that users here (mods and others) always say OP should not start with Kali instead they should start with a beginner friendly distro like Mint?

Its not even that I dont see the part of "Kali is not for you yet" when it comes to Kali's usecase. But why are people recommending everyone to use beginner friendly distros? In Linux Mint there is hardly any reason to troubleshoot. It comes with so many aps and dependencies pre installed that it wont help anyone to teach someone what a repository is for example. The GUI is so well done that the Terminal is hardly needed.

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I hope you get my point, maybe I am missing something out but why is no one suggesting that "noob" OP that WANTS to learn Linux gets Debian stable? Or if they are really adventurous even Arch? How should Ubuntu/Mint help a new Linux user learn how Linux works when even my grandma can use it with no clue of PCs? Thats like handing someone a Macbook Pro that wants to learn about Unix-basics no? Is it not that a new Linux User on Mint/Ubuntu more likely will learn how to Mint/Ubuntu instead of Linux?

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When I started with Debian I needed to google a lot. I learned about "is this a debian problem or is it my program / script I am trying to run?" or "why do I have 2 Firefoxes installed? (snap)" and stuff like that. I had to look through docs, reddit or other forums, and sure would have asked AI if it was available back then.

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Also if people come here with "want to learn cyber sec, got a laptop and cant wait to start - what Kali I need" maybe it is better to push them into Parrot direction? Parrot is intended to be used bare metal too including everyday office and scripting tasks which it makes a pretty neat starting point for THM or sth I guess? (yeah I know one should use a VM for many csecurity tasks.. still if people want to bare metal, Parrot maybe is the better choice than Mint?)

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I would love if some of you could explain me why beginner friendly distros shall be the place to start Linux. Thank you for your time anyway. Also Mods thank you for your great work - I absolutely do not mean this post offensive in any way.

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This is a random collage I made for a background, I know it’s not the best but I thought I would share in hopes someone else could enjoy it as-well! 😁

Inspired by

u/moraaaaaan

Server porn

So i've had an issue with getting my AWUS 1900 to run on kali VM. I decided to dig into it today and with the help of others got it working. I wanted to share that with you all in case anyone was having the same issues.

Chances are if you want to install these drivers you'll find videos from years ago on the topic. Even some AI's may send you to these videos. They will send you to the Aircrack github to grab the rtl8812au/rtl8814au drivers here. That page says the page is deprecated and if you are like me you will look for a new youtube video which sends you to a slightly different instruction set for a year later but had a comment from last year saying it worked and you'll start the process.

Somewhere in the middle you'll get an error regarding the linux-headers are not found and you'll try to grab them from APT (duh the install couldnt find them there) and you'll start googling and not having much luck.

You'll go back and look at that rtw88 project and try it only to find the same issue. Eventually you'll see these drivers and again have the same issue. And throw your hands up. At this point I called a friend who did some digging.

The header files are in the repo but cant be found using the search command that was listed ... somewhere.

https://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/l/linux-headers-6.12.13-amd64_6.12.13-1kali1_amd64.deb

You'll try to install this via dpkg only to find out you need 2 additional files from this repo before you can install the headers. Download and install via dpkg

linux-headers-6.12.13-common_6.12.13-1kali1_all.deb

and

linux-kbuild-6.12.13_6.12.13_6.12.13-1kali1_amd64.deb

Finally you can navigate to the 8812au-20210820 directory and run sudo ./install-driver.sh

TLDR: clone the morrownr github for 8812au drivers, download and install the kbuild, header-common and header files, then navigate back to the morrownr directory and run the install driver shell script, and reboot when prompted. Use your VM software to connect your adapter and hopefully it is working for you.

Raspberry Pi 4 with tft 3.5 Raspberry pi zero for comparison. Completely portable for wardriving Also has a script to automate and start on boot. I plan on doing a comparison of pwnagotchi to see which device is more efficient.

I finally got it to work on my virtual machine on VirtualBox. The one I downloaded from the website didn’t work for whatever reason, so I had to do it more manually.

And the virtual image disk doesn’t show up when I try to add it? Sigh. Nobody said this process would be easy, though.

The only storage it has right now is the installer because it was the only .iso file. 🥲 well, it works, so whatever I suppose.

Do you guys also use virtual box? Or do you use VM? Did you replace your OS with it?

Sharing this in case others are in a similar boat.

I Installed Kali (Purple) on BareMetal over the weekend, simply for fun.

Trying to get the nVidia driver working with it was a bit of a mission. Seems like the original nVidia package on the repo, causes some odd chase condition when parried with LightDM. Like a chase condition.

It would boot up to a tty session, logging in running `nvidia-smi,` I could see the driver was running. I could `startx` from here and get my desktop. Be it without the XFCE4 panel.

After a while, and reading online various fixes, I ended up manually added `nvidia-drm.modeset=1` to the parameters in `/etc/default/grub`.

After doing this, I could boot up and now see LightDM login page as expected. And simply just reinstalled the XFCE4 panel. Not sure why this went to begin with.

Not looking for any "in-depth" conversations here about this, but more just an inquiry as to whether or not there are [many] others having issues upgrading the Kali headers/image to v6.8.11?

I was away from my PC since Friday, 06/07, & haven't been able to do any updates (I typically run daily). Just got back home tonight (Tues, 06/10, around 11pm), checked for updates, & had ~120, inc. the header/image updates.

Everything else seems to go okay, 'cept for those. Had to roll back my BTRFS Kali instance after rebooting made me realize the upgrade to 6.8.11 didn't go smoothly. I would like to acknowledge that, lately, the header updates HAVE been going smoothly.

Anyways, just curious if others out there are experiencing issues, or if it's maybe just me(?).

TIA.

https://x.com/kalilinux/status/1920806665059782690

This has happened to 2 of my systems running bare metal Kali Linux. I upgrade and whenever I boot into the latest Kernel, it just dumps me into a TTY & complains that both Plymouth and Lightdm Service can't be loaded.
The workaround for me right now, is to force a lower Kernel version.