What have you tried:
Installing on MacBook Pro.late 2008
What is the error:
No wi-fi ( driver is not recognized )
What device is this on: MacBook Pro , late 2008
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Hi, is there anyone tried this? I have old MacBook Pro, late 2008, and upgrade hardware to the maximum, but the latest OS which can be installed is OS X El Capitan. Everything is outdated, so it’s useles … after multiple tries of different OS installing, KALI is perfect! But, there is no driver for a wifi installed. Anyone … !!!
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Problem fixed … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlj2BbT96k
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Next problem : can’t activate bluetooth !!! Anyone … !!!
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search wifi driver to kali on internet
yes I’ve done it, with a 2010 macbook pro, drivers for wifi can be made to work, as you’ve discovered, however, broadcom wifi chipsets are also used to give you bluetooth connections, and the open source drivers and firmware don’t support the bluetooth side at all, in any linux distro!
just for reference, fedora will install and work out of the box on an old macbook like that 
but again, no bluetooth.
if you need bluetooth, get a cheap usb bluetooth dongle, less than £5 or $5 and will usually ‘just work’
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Thank you very much, you saved me hours of researching … just gonna buy BT dongle and fix it … greetings from Serbia!
Guys i need help i am not able to boot my usb in mac so that i can use my ssd as linux os on mac. I use mac air m1 2020 and there is no tutorial or any guides to how to do this. Also, i have tried to lower the security and every steps but it just doesn’t show up in menu when i open boot settings.
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What tool you use to create a bootable USB? I am using Rufus, just download the newest KALI, download Rufus and create bootable USB. After creating a bootable USB, restart your machine, hold ALT on start during booting and choose a new USB. If possible, connect LAN during installation so the all repositories can be downloaded and installed during installation, After installation, reboot, update and upgrade, I’ve just did it a few days ago on my 17 years old MacBook Pro and can’t believe how awesome it is.
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If you need any help, I’ll do my best, but I am just a simple user … can contact me on Skype or some other channel …
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rufus is not available for macbook, i used balenca etcher. I think after some recent updates in my macbook air it has increased the security for booting other devices on mac. What i am trying to do is install kali linux on my spare ssd and boot it in macbook to use it as completely different os without making any changes on my mac. Is there any way u could help me?
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your mac is more than capable of running kali in a vm and is the best way to run it, you can still use a spare ssd to run it from, and the ports will give good speeds, bare metal most things wont work, missing drivers for lots of things in a mac. The nearest any OS has gotten to fully working on apple silicon is the asahi project and that’s Arch based
the tools used by Kali are avialable for the Arch platform, and so asahi and adding tools is proably the only bare metal way of ending up with a pentest Apple silicon mac;
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Thanku Fred I’ll give Asahi linux a try
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Yes, of course … what do you want to do exactly? Is there any way you can attach that spare SSD to some configuration? Maybe as the external HDD? Please some details …
OH i just want to make a portable os so that even if i am not using kali on my mac i can run it from any device
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Est ce que quelqu’un pourrait m’expliquer les risques d’installer kali linux sur mon ordinateur sans installer virtualbox ou vmware s’il vous plait .
Je sais qu’il y a des risques mais je ne sais pas lesquels . Ca ne le dit clairement et de manière comprehensible nul part ! Quels sont les risques de l’installer sans machine virtuel ?
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In future please use English on the forum.
There aren’t inherently ‘any risks’ running Kali on your computer, any more than running any other OS.
Running kali on bare metal can sometimes take some configuration though, drivers can be a problem for example
That is why it can sometimes be easier to use a VM instead, you don’t have driver problems.
I have had Kali running on bare metal on older Intel Macbook Pros, Macs don’t like Grub very much, so I have used the refind boot environment to handle that;
If your running on a fairly generic computer, boot from a live ISO image, if everything works, it should also install successfully.
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After installing KALI on my MacBook Pro late 2008, there was 2 problems … First, there was no wi-fi, and there is no bluethooth … after some digging on YT, wi-fi is fixed … unfortunately, the same card provide bluethooth also, and didn’t supported on Open Source OS … is there anyone who can eventualy write the code !!!
use a bluetooth dongle if you want bluetooth.
The broadcom card shares the same 2.4 GHz wifi hardware for wifi and bluetooth, and the sharing is handled by the OS on a Mac.
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Thank you … again! So helpful …