Still cannot install Nvidia drivers Kali1-amd64

[fonestar]

Okay, this issue has not been "solved". I have followed three tutorials and recommendations to the T now on how to get my Nvidia GTX 8800's working with Kali Linux 2.0 for use with pyrit, hashcat, etc.

Everything I have tried; "apt get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade", "apt-get clean", and "apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)" still returns with an error unable to find linux-headers-kali1-amd64 or whatever...

I will not edit sources.list again (as has been recommended by some) to include bleeding edge repos as this has already forced my third reinstall now! Really, why not just include the headers and Nvidia drivers with the standard sources??? Has anyone managed to get this working???

[fonestar]

Okay, so three days into this and nothing works, tried several different tutorials and needed to reinstall several times. Got as far as getting the Nvidia drivers installed but then couldn't get the CUDA toolkit to work. After reviewing the pyrit benchmark of my old GTX 8800 cards I feel that this was time well wasted (only ~7000 PMK/second). So would I have more luck with AMD? Are they any easier to get setup? Or is it better to find another, faster Nvidia card? What is known to work with Kali 2.0 amd64? Any help/advice is appreciated!

[fonestar]

Tried again with a Radeon 4890 card that I had, apparently that one needs fglrx-legacy drivers and would need to downgrade the kernel and several other packages to make it work. And even the ppa for that didn't work.

Can anyone assist with this? I am willing to pay a Bitcoin reward if someone can get me to the point of a working box, working video card with pyrit that can see the gpu's.

[deanfourie]

Okay, this issue has not been "solved". I have followed three tutorials and recommendations to the T now on how to get my Nvidia GTX 8800's working with Kali Linux 2.0 for use with pyrit, hashcat, etc.

Everything I have tried; "apt get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade", "apt-get clean", and "apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)" still returns with an error unable to find linux-headers-kali1-amd64 or whatever...

I will not edit sources.list again (as has been recommended by some) to include bleeding edge repos as this has already forced my third reinstall now! Really, why not just include the headers and Nvidia drivers with the standard sources??? Has anyone managed to get this working???

Here are my sources

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 _Sana_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150811-08:02]/ sana contrib main non-free

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 _Sana_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150811-08:02]/ sana contrib main non-free

deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free 

deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

Then you want to install kernal headers, in this order.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install -f
apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)"

Then chnod the file

sudo chmod +x yourdriver.run

Now lets close the X session

sudo init 3

Then do a ctrl + alt + f2. You need to know where the driver install file is (.run)

Go to the directory of the driver,

sudo ./driverfile.run

Complete the install

sudo reboot

If for some reason you need to boot back into X for some googling of whatever,

sudo init 1

press ctrl+D
Then alt+F7

I dont think I missed anything! Let us know if you get stuck!

[fonestar]

Thanks for the response, I did finally get it working using the same Blackmoreops tutorial I tried the first time (not sure what I did differently or changed?). But it does work now. I successfully used pyrit to retrieve WPA handshake (from my own network) however pyrit has started to fail. Sometimes reports that core "has died unexpectedly". Pyrit list_cores identifies 2 as being CUDA devices and 2 as being Open-CL devices. Not sure if that is right as they are both GTX 750TI cards? Pyrit passes selftest sometimes and fails other times. Maybe this is a subject for separate thread?

EDIT: Nevermind, removed, purged pyrit... build & install regular pyrit package first and then open-cl pyrit and now all cores identify as open-cl cores. I'm also getting 51,000 PMKs/second instead of 46,000 PMKs/second.

[stonedoan]

Thanks for deanfourie .it does work now. I successfully used. though a bit tired too