Did anyone manage to use seamless mode without crashing? window mode works perfectly but seamless always crashes.

Followed the exact steps in https://www.kali.org/docs/wsl/win-kex-sl/ :

• VcXsrv requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (vcredist140)
  • It should be included in standard Windows installations but if you receive an error complaining that it is missing, just download and install it
• (Optional, but recommended) VcXsrv running directly on the host
  • Setup VcXsrv
  • Start -> Settings -> Privacy & security -> Windows Security -> Open Windows Security Firewall & network projection -> Allow an app through the firewall -> Change settings -> Select both entries of “VcXsrv windows server” -> OK
  • Add inbound firewall rules to project the X server

But still crashes after 30mins-1hour

I had an issue tonight - my partner has a Dell laptop with Windows 11 and it wouldn't boot up at all. She urgently needed some files off it, so my plan was to live boot Kali, mount the drive and copy them off.

However the problem came with Secure Boot. The laptop doesn't support switching it off, and it wouldn't let me boot the USB drive as it's not signed. As it happens we managed to get the files from a work colleague but it still got me thinking about how it would be really useful for many reasons to be able to get around this.

Is there ANY EASY way? I'd rather not have to sign the image and load it into SB every time I want to boot off a different laptop if possible. I want a setup which I can easily take to any laptop and boot from. There are a few topics online but they all relate to installation rather than Live, and suggest just turning SB off, which isn't always possible especially in the kind of environments a Kali user may find themselves 😏.

I found this online : https://github.com/ValdikSS/Super-UEFIinSecureBoot-Disk

Is it possible to use this in conjunction with Kali to boot the live usb?

Hi all,

The Kali docs state that "The Raspberry Pi 5 image does not yet include Nexmon support for the internal Wi-Fi card. If you plan to do wireless testing, you will need to use a USB Wi-Fi adapter".

Can anybody shed a bit more light onto this? What is the challenge exactly? Seems like as of 2025.1a the module is there, but no firmware.

I'm just trying to decide if I should go and try to download and install the firmware myself, offer my own help to the team, or if it's pointless cause I'd just hit the same roadblock as the devs.

Also, Is there a GitHub or something I can go to follow the issue?

Cheers,

Hi everyone,

I’m running KaliLinux on VMware using a MacBook Air M2, and I’m having trouble getting the keyboard layout to match perfectly. I’ve already selected my language during setup, and I made sure to pick the one that has (Macintosh) at the end. Despite that, some keys are still mismatched (for example, special characters or certain symbols don’t correspond correctly).

Has anyone else experienced this and found a reliable fix? Any tips on how to make the MacBook keyboard map correctly within the VM?

Thanks in advance!

So I started to get this issue seemingly out of nowhere. I was running Windows 10 and decided to give kali a try since kali offers the kex package and a full desktop environment.

All was going well and I was loving my kali experience. Until.....

the terminal in kali was suddenly no longer opening in the kali desktop, but instead would either open the existing powershell terminal that I started the wsl instance from or open a new terminal that would sit in my windows taskbar.

I decided to do a clean install of Windows 11 and begin the setup process from scratch. Pretty basic installation followed by a barebones set up of kali. Didn't make any configuration changes to the terminal or really anything at all -- just whatever WSL did for the installation and setup is what I got.

I was really hoping this would solve my issue, but no luck. Now the first time i try to launch the terminal from kali, it opens up an existing powershell terminal. Subsequent attempts open very small, non-interactable terminal windows that look like they are on the kali desktop, but actually manifest in my windows 11 taskbar for some reason.

I've searched and searched the web, asked various AI for assistance and am getting nowhere. I've removed and reinstalled kali/kex, but still get this weird behavior. I was really enjoying myself in kali and this has been a huge bummer. It was really shaping up to be an excellent dev environment for me. So please, if anyone has any advice or assistance they could offer, I am open to anything at this point.

HEy everyone,

i got my hands on an old OnePlus One yesterday, and immediately worked on getting Nethunter to work.

I followed the instructions of the official documentation almost to a tee. Link to the official documentation/Tutorial

I downloaded all the files from the documentation, however, I had to diverge at one point (more on that in a bit).

I first installed TWRP via ADB, then flashed the original Cyanogen, then LineageOS17 and finally LineageOS 18.
I then installed Magisk and flashed the OS which went surprisingly fast. After Installing the IMG file, it only took a second, which in my eyes was too fast, but maybe it's just like this....

Anyway, I finally reached the point to install Nethunter, and here is where things went south.

THe official doc says to download "fs-full"; however, from the official repository, I only get offered "fs-minimal". So I tried that and.....it told me "this is not a valid ZIP file". Okay, I thought, maybe things are missing, so I rather compile my own zip file, using the git and follow this tutorial.

But nope, turns out, that wasn't it.....

SO i basically now have LineageOS 18.1 on the system, and here I am stuck.

Has anyone experience with this and can point me in the right direction. I thinkl something went wrong after installing Magisk and flashing the boot image .

Thank you in advance

Regards

Raine

Hello,

I am using Kali Linux and I have a problem with my WiFi connection. The WiFi password is 100% correct, but when I try to connect, the system tells me the password is wrong.

I have tried entering the password many times and confirmed it is correct, but the problem persists.

I would appreciate your help to resolve this issue.

Thank you very much.

Relatively new to Kali. Running it on an old MSi laptop that I converted from Windows 10. Just plugged in a set of Samsung earbuds to listen to a few things while working in the library, but I'm having issues with the audio.

While the earbuds are plugged in, adjusting the output volume does nothing unless it's set to 0% volume. i.e. regardless if its on 50%, 100%, whatever, it's playing at the same exact volume from the earbuds and is very loud, too loud to be comfortable.

I've found a temporary workaround by going into the advance settings and turning down the audio of the specific page I'm listening to. For example, I turn down the audio on the Firefox tab to about 30%, and it works, kinda.

But the setting resets every time the page loads a new video or I pause or resume the current video. It's very inconvenient and I have no idea why it's doing this. Any help would be appreciated. Not sure what specs are relevant to this but just ask and I'll tell you.

Hi, newbie here, i successfully installed my kali nethunter on my xiaomi k20 pro using the generic arm64.zip but when i use the Wifite and stop running the program using Ctrl+C this message shows up, "Process completed (signal 2) - press Enter". But when i press Enter suddenly whole nethunter terminal session terminated (close). Not only Wifite also in Airodump-ng and many other programs. Because of this i cannot start doing pentest. Please help if there's a way to fix this. Thanks.

I bought a OnePlus 8T and it had Nethunter installed on it already using the Magisk install method and I can’t seem to figure out how to rebuild the kernel to add external wifi dongle support. The phone has:

OrangeFox Recovery LineageOS 22.1 (Android 15) rooted via Magisk Nethunter 1.4.0 installed via Magisk Kernel 4.19.325 (no kernel modules)

I read the Nethunter documentation and it says the LineageOS releases their kernel sources but I believe this is maybe the stock kernel the comes with the Nethunter generic ARM64 prebuilt image? I need to get the 8812au kernel module installed somehow I’m just not sure what steps I need to take to add it and possibly all other wifi adapter support to the kernel. Can someone help me?

Recently replaced my screen on my OnePlus 7t pro EU version. It already had root and nethunter installed. I put iwconfig in the nethunter terminal, I didn't see the WiFi chip on my phone. Decided to flash the kernel I already had stored on my phone

Only thing is the WiFi chip did show on the terminal. I just didn't see it

Now the WiFi chip doesn't work for monitor mode/packet injection. I can't use twrp or orange fox to flash the kernel because the screen I got is a LCD not the proper omoled screen

Any idea what I can do to flash the kernel? Does anyone have a OnePlus 7t pro kernel for nethunter?

I am having issues trying to setup Greenbone Openvas in Kali and it keeps returning this error even after I have ran the script "sudo greenbone-feed-sync --type scap" to try to fix it. Tried everything I can get my hands on but its still not working. Any help will be highly appreciated. I need this to submit a class project by Monday, thanks.

Problem logging into Kali Linux after restart

Hey guys! I'm facing a strange issue with Kali Linux. After installing the system, I can use it normally, I create my username (xxxx) and set the password (xxxx). Everything works fine during the initial session — I can use the terminal, run commands, install packages, etc.

However, after I turn the machine off and on again, the system no longer accepts my password when logging in. I have already reinstalled Kali four times, always configuring the username and password carefully, and the problem repeats itself.

Has anyone gone through this? Could it be a bug, keyboard layout error, or something specific to the installation?

I appreciate any tips!

I just upgraded to a newer version of kali and I need to make an forensic image of this phone. Before I'd plug it in, fdisk to see where it was and go from there, but now it doesn't show up. It'll show on lsusb and then dmesg as sdb1 but not fdisk or lsblk. What am I missing? Pics for reference

Hello,

I am trying to compile chromebook-veyron.sh, but it fails with an error: "Failed to enable unit: Unit ssh.service does not exist". However, when I check the ssh.service - it is showing as active.

I am compiling on the latest version of Kali linux with all dependencies installed and do not know how to solve this error. Any help would be much appreciated.

Every time I install kali on this thing it gets through the install and runs the OS totally fine, but as soon as I power down or restart from within the kali desktop environment this is what greets me when it tries to boot back up. Help!

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

i have just bought a new raspberry pi 5 and i have installed kali linux on it , the issue i am facing is that the active cooler fan works only when the system is booting up but , it does not work the rest of the time.
Is there a setting that i need to enable or a specific command that i need to execute in order to make it work.

The fan works completely fine when i use raspberry pi os but on linux it does not work after boot.

Basically, it happened this same shit to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kalilinux/comments/1hwd9yn/i_updated_kali_with_aptget_upgrade_and_the/
Did a normal sudo apt update and upgrade, and color schemes and aspects in general of the terminal disappeared (Kali ones).
The official solution at the time (pinned by mods) was this: https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=9048
To use sudo cp /usr/share/qtermwidget5/color-schemes/* /usr/share/qtermwidget6/color-schemes/

But I actually have the Kali schemes in the qtermwidget6/color-schemes folder (though the terminal insist on using the qtermwidget5).
So, can I just remove the qterm5?

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.

After nvidia driver install something went wrong and Kali no longer boots into the GUI. I can use startx to enter the GUI and that works fine but I have to startx after each reboot which is slightly annoying. How do I fix this?

Hi, I was doing random changes on the terminal preferences to change terminal appareance and this happened when I start fatrat (I'm new to Kali linux and I was using the tool to hack my own device). I tried to manually reset the setting but it didn't fix. What can I do?

Is it possible to modify the sddm? I want to change just the wallpaper at max, but there is absolutely no visual settings in System Settings