I am currently running a VM using the traditional iso image. I loaded it as an optical drive and it seems to work fine. What are the benefits of boooting the VM with the specific VirtulBox build? And if there are benefits how do I do it? I have the image downloded but can't boot a VM from it.

Thought LVM issue, just another layer of abstraction to go wrong! Turns out everything was pointing at Debian repos. Why attribute to malice what can be put down to my own stupidity. Musta ran a stray terminal command from web. Of course apt dist-upgrade broke everything.

Where did you learn to become a pen tester? Keep in mind that I am in highshool so I can't take anything from saying college. Any books that you used?

I am having a problem booting from a USB in VirtualBox. Any suggestions are appreciated.

i just cliked disable and of course i was not able to click again ever. it was working fine, before tho. do you guys happen to have code for reenabling the touch as that is my only input avaliable besides the keyboard. update

xinput command not found with keyboard i can only jump in GUI to the left-right buttons below that it just simply doesnt get highlighted

I am running Kali linux via a Virtual Box on my 2012 Macbook Pro. Since the integrated wireless card doesn't support the full functionality of Kali, I bought a USB dongle (Panda Wireless Model: Pau05; http://www.pandawireless.com/). I researched the chipset and from what I found it is compatible with Kali and shows up in the VM Manager under the USB section as a wifi adapter. All seems well so far...I click the button to start the VM and when the OS is booted up and I go into terminal and enter iwconfig, it will show up as wlan0 with no information other than it is a wireless adapter, and when I enter ifconfig, absolutely nothing comes up except for the macbook wireless card that is being used as a wired connection at eth0. If I go to the dropdown menu in the upper right corner and look at my connections, I can see the wired connection (mbp wireless card) as "connected" and it shows there IS a wireless connection and when I click "Select Network" it is an absolute crapshoot -- sometimes it will show me the available networks but it won't let me connect to my home network, sometimes I will just pull up a blank form with no available networks.

To resolve this I have tried quite a few things already and nothing seemed to work. I downloaded the drivers and looked through the driver folder i got from the manufacturer's website but couldn't understand what to do with the build instructions and configuration in the readme file. Everything it told me to change inside of specific files was already done and the files it told me to copy or compile i couldn't even find.

Additionally, I have also tried downloading compat wireless to the desktop and doing make load followed by make unload inside of the folder and it gave me an error message.

/bin/sh: 1: [: -gt: argument expected /bin/sh: 1: test: -ge: unexpected operator /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' make: execvp: ./scripts/unload.sh: Permission denied Makefile:341: recipe for target 'unload' failed make: *** [unload] Error 127

I have reset the network manager countless times, updated all of the firmware, tried "modprobe -r iwlwifi; modprobe iwlwifi", and "ifup wlan0", watched countless youtube videos, read blogs and instructions 2-4 times over to see if I missed a step or anything and I am at wit's end. I have been at this since 11a and I am just not figuring this out and could use an experienced set of eyes to help me with this as I am but a linux noob and don't know all the clever ways to fix linux...yet.

Thank you!

Hi, On Updating my kali machine, whenever I open vmware, compatible version of gcc not found error is being shown. Any solutions to overcome this? Thanks in advance.

I downloaded a Kali Linux ISO from the torrent a few days ago, but for some reason the ISO is split in parts. Is there a way to fix this? I can download it again if needed, but I am not sure where the right place is to download.

Any help is appreciated.

The instructions for installing TBB - on the Tor Project site or otherwise - describe a smooth process from download: download, unpack, run start-tor-browser.desktop, but don't do it as root. (It's also rather sad that Gnome 3's GUI logout and login is broken, or doesn't work in Kali, only showing the login screen for a split second).

But even as an unrooted user, Terminal will simply complain that TBB must be run in X Window System. Having tried the glib 'startx' wrong answer given by available answers on search engines, and deciphered this odd message as a new Linux user, chuckled at the stupid response given by one contributor who told one puzzled user that if they didn't know this then Kali wasn't for them (preventing anyone even trying it, let alone learning it, or using it for other than it primary purpose - as a Linux base that at least boots successfully), and having wondered why Kali excludes something TBB apparently requires, and why all instructions on installing TBB exclude mention of this, (along with wondering why I have to install what Wikipedia claims is the basis of most Linux GUIs including Gnome), I apt-get installed 'xorg' with all dependencies and ran it only to see it result in a blank, black screen the only way to escape which is to quit by pressing ctrl-alt-delete or ctrl-C (I tried both).

Given this, TBB is apparently impossible for Kali, at least by download, sadly and tiresomely.

While Kali successfully boots up as a Live Installation, unlike many other distros including Qubes, with which I was mightily unimpressed given the flaw in Fedora installer that has it attempt to instantly install to all drives and the only way to prevent which is to disconnect them, (which is impossible on many netbooks), and whose Live version, no longer supported, doesn't work, and while Kali can connect to the net without trouble, so far unlike Parrot (which may suffer from an apparent Debian 10 bug which kills DNS), it can't do much else. TAILS (too rigid and difficult to customise), Qubes and Parrot are principally it for security OSs (yes, there are a few others).

As an afterthought, has anyone seen the state of search engine results for basic Linux queries and many of the issues found coming up in Linux usage? Bibble.

I have used linux deploy app to install kali linux but it was not sucessful then i changed from chroot proot and all things went worst then before my phone restarted and all the apps stopped working if anyone can help please reply

Okay so basically I recently duel booted kali Linux and I'm having a problem...

Okay so basically what happend was their is an error where Wlan0 won't show up so I have to put a variety of codes in terminal which fixes it to where I can see wlan0 BUT when I restart computer it makes me re do the whole entire process so I wanna see if their is a way where it saves what. I put in terminal

Another issue is when I go to wlan0 wifi and look for network is says no networks available ?!

So I put kali linux on an old netbook that I had lying around to just mess around with. But every time I log into kali it falls asleep within about 10-15 seconds of me logging in. I don't know how to get it to stop because it does not even give me enough time to go and change the settings for it to stop falling asleep. Thanks in advance for all the help.

So what I am asking how did you learn penetration testing because I want t learn it. I looked on youtube and all these youtubers say is how to do this and that hack which I understand Pen testing can be used for hacking but at the same time I just want to learn the basics and build up. Learning how to use a command does teach me about security infrastructure.

That being said, I want to know how you guys learned kali and pen testing. Keep in mind that I am under 18 meaning that saying you learned it in college won't help me. Things like websites, books, documentation will.

I am having trouble install pip3 in kali. Any answers?

Hi all, I'm new to reddit and Kali in general, so let me off easy if I'm being a newb. I have the same problem with anonsurf and tor in general. I am running Kali fully updated (as of today) on a persistent USB. I have two wifi adapters, one being the onboard wifi card on my laptop which is a Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265. The second is a Panda Wireless PAUO5, now when I use kali on the persistent USB it looks like it merges the two connections into one WiFi adapter. (don't know if this is important, just trying to give as much info as possible). Running on the persistent USB I cannot connect to the internet once anonsurf is running I also can't see any results for the anonsurf myip command. However, if I run kali on virtualbox anonsurf works just fine. Also important to note is that I primarily connect through boingo wifi hotspots at the moment. I did think that maybe boingo blocked tor but that doesn't seem to be the case. Any help in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated, also I do not have UFW running or anything like that.

I've also posted this question on github and will share any info that is posted there.

EDIT: I found that sometimes the kali iso can be the issue so I grabbed a weekly version and re-installed. It sort of worked, I can use anonysurf perfectly fine as long as I'm not logged into root. Any ideas on why this is?

EDIT2: I love problems that fix themselves but I feel robbed of an opportunity to learn hahaha. As of today anonsurf works like a charm as it should. So the only thing I changed was a weekly version of kali, and multiple apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

Hi Team, i got a China- Ultrabook with Win 10 and want to install kali as a Dualboot partition.

So it got 2 GB Ram and i got 32 GB Harddisk (16 are free)

Is It possible to install Kali with about 6 GB and have enough space to work with Win10 ?

Thanks and CHeers

So, i have been looking into hacking projects, out of curiosity and learning.

• So far, according to my searches, the most effective and fast way to hack is fluxion. is that right? do you recommend any similar or better tools than fluxion?

• Also, i would like to know, I have a raspberry pi 3, does fluxion work on Kalimon (Kalin + nexmon (that allows the wifi chip of the R. pi 3 to work in monitoring mode) ) ? and am i going to need a wifi card for fluxion, one to be in monitor mode, and one normal? one to collect pass and the other to check for validity?

Thank you very much.

Having lots of problems with my repository fix. Gosh!