Hi all,
Installed Kali booting alongside Windows 7. This might be an easy fix but it's annoying me.
TL;DR If I've been using Kali with the Wifi Manager disabed (so I can packet inject) and then I switch off completely, next time I switch back on and boot straight to windows, Wifi doesn't work.
- Wifi isn't working in Windows 7 (no connections available).
- Hardware switch is enabled, no warning flags in Device Manager. Windows troubleshooter says the hardware switch is off (but it isn't). Reinstalling drivers doesn't help.
- Reboot into Kali. Airplane mode is forced on (when disabled, it switches back on). This might be default Kali behavior, I don't know.
- rfkill unblock all
- Soft reboot into Windows 7, Wifi is working fine again.
- Shutdown completely. Switch on and boot up to Windows 7, Wifi still working.
- Restart, boot into Kali. Airplane mode on. Rfkill unblock all.
- Shutdown completely. Switch on and boot up to Windows 7, Wifi still working.
- Boot into Kali, rfkill unblock all. Want to packet inject and have to to kill wifi manager as it interfers with packet injection.
- /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
- Do some work in Kali. Shutdown.
- Later boot into windows, Wifi isn't working again until I go back into Kali and do the rfkill fix.
Kali is somehow creating a softblock which is kept in Windows. At the moment I think it's the network manager being stopped that's causing it, but I don't understand how a software block in Kali is creating a block in Windows. It's kind of annoying.
Originally Posted by lizard
