Battery not recognized due to INT33FE driver missing

[fireqt]

Hello,

I also opened a report for this at the bug tracker: https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=4677

I'm new to Linux in general but managed to figure out that the battery not recognized/wireless card not found/sound not working/shutdown not happening issues on Intel Atom Z8xxx chipsets are caused by the driver for INT33FE missing from most distros, including Kali.
I have a similar issue on my new Acer One 10 netbook, acpi cannot find the battery at all, as there is no driver to read related data.

I've found a few sources where people managed to find a solution (including one for Kali):

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/INTEL_CHT_INT33FE.html - the driver needed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1569995 - solution already present in Ubuntu 17.10
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/435598/no-battery-detected-empty-power-supply-and-acpi-directories - solution for Kali

I lack the Linux knowledge to actually (even for the last link) build my own solution, but if anybody has instructions on how to add the driver to my Kali install based on the sources I could find I'd happily follow.

Thanks

[re4son]

Hi fireqt,

the driver isn't missing. You can use these two commands on your machine to confirm:


root@kali:/# grep INT33FE /boot/config-`uname -r`
CONFIG_INTEL_CHT_INT33FE=m

root@kali:/# locate intel_cht_int33fe.ko
/lib/modules/4.14.0-kali3-amd64/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/intel_cht_int33fe.ko


It's just that Intel Atom machines don't play nice with stock kernels. You can try one of these though:

https://re4son-kernel.com/pocket-kali/#kernel

Those kernels are purpose-built for Kali on Atom machines with the latest patches from Hans de Goede's collection of magic spells for exotic hardware.

Hope that helps.