Fixing dependency problems in Kali Linux Like many forums and blogs people are hell bent on providing help without much explanation, (i.e. do this and it will be fixed, God! I hate solutions like that) and users end up with too many lines in their sources.list file. Many users goes …
Read More »TP-Link TL-WDN3200 N600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter in Linux
I’ve got this TP-Link TL-WDN3200 N600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter and I’ve been trying to make it work in Kali Linux which is a Debian derivative. I managed to find the Linux driver DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3_20121022.tar.bz2 from http://www.mediatek.com/. The instructions were very clear but when I tried to compile I received …
Read More »Enable USB Boot in Gigabyte Motherboard
I’ve got this Gigabyte Motherboard GA-P35-DS3L (rev. 2.0) in my old desktop running Q6600 Quad Code CPU and 4GB RAM. I’ve used this computer for last 5 years and to be honest, it’s still superb compared to some newer machines I’ve used recently. I installed Windows 7 and Kali Linux on it …
Read More »Auto login root user at system start in Kali Linux – GNOME and KDE
Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd. Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns of Offensive Security developed it by rewriting BackTrack, their previous forensics Linux distribution. By default root is the only user account in …
Read More »Fix “WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!” in Kali Linux
I just reinstalled Kali 1.0.5 and successfully did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. But when I am trying to do an apt-get dist-upgrade I get this error “WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!” Obviously I don’t want to install un-authenticated package. So I cancelled. Did some Googling and different …
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