MSI GS65 Kali Linux Installation

[whyynoot]

Hi, I hope isw-modern will work on new kernels, but not for me this time

ACPI disabled in this kernel, not building module.
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/usr/src/isw-1.10-2/dkms.conf)
Building for 5.18.0-kali5-amd64 5.18.0-kali7-amd64
Module build for kernel 5.18.0-kali5-amd64 was skipped since the
kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
Building initial module for 5.18.0-kali7-amd64
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/var/lib/dkms/isw/1.10-2/source/dkms.conf)
Done.
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/var/lib/dkms/isw/1.10-2/source/dkms.conf)
Deprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD (/var/lib/dkms/isw/1.10-2/source/dkms.conf)

ec_sys.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.18.0-kali7-amd64/updates/dkms/
depmod...
modprobe: FATAL: Module ec_sys not found in directory /lib/modules/5.18.0-kali5-amd64

Thanks for this work and your help

[FaridZelli]

Were you installing the Debian package? Try acpi_ec instead, just updated the readme.

Not about ISW, but if you're looking to learn about networking and cybersecurity I'd advise you to avoid installing Kali Linux on bare-metal hardware under any circumstances. It's meant to be a live distro, or used persistently within a containerized environment. The distro's missing essential components for regular desktop usage, aside from numerous security vulnerabilities as the environment is configured for convenience, not daily use.

If you need access to their tools, install Debian/Ubuntu and add their repos manually.

[whyynoot]

Hi!

About what essential components you are talking about? Maybe I should think of switching, but mainly it is ok for me for now - using for 2 months. Also, it is dual boot with windows on MSI GS65 with extra SSD
Thank for this discussion

Also, isw-modern works! I spent some time and yeah it works. Thank you for you work, mate

[FaridZelli]

I apologize for the late reply, glad to know you got ISW working 👍

Kali Linux is a distribution targeted towards penetration testing. It uses the root user by default (if I recall correctly), lacks various proprietary firmware and codecs, ships with severely out of date packages as it's based on Debian stable, and for the cherry on top includes hundreds of scrappy patches to ensure all types of weird network hardware work as intended, opening up countless security vulnerabilities to the low level system.

Its purpose is to provide a complete suite of all the tools you may need out of the box, for you to get messy with inside of a live environment without having to worry about system maintenance or breakage. While it is possible to configure Kali as a desktop distribution, it just makes a lot more sense to add the repos you need to a proper desktop distro like Ubuntu, and build a personalized environment from there. You can always use Kali in a VM, which is the preferred approach by many professionals. That way you have complete control over the system, and the convenience of being able to work with multiple isolated instances.