ITE8853

[Thordox]

Hi,

Currently I installed Kali Linux on my desktop computer and dual booting with Windows 11. Whenever I try loading Kali I get an error message saying: "failed to register i2c client ITE8853:00 at 0x4r (-16)". If I boot using Nouveau drivers it will first get display the error then boot into Kali, but if I install Nvidia drivers for my graphics card and reboot it will get stuck at the i2c error and never boots into Kali unless I restart and edit grub to boot using nomodeset.

PC Specs:
Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero
CPU: Intel i9 14900K
GPU: Asus Tuf RTX3090 OC
RAM: 2x 16GB Trident Z5 6000

I am new to Kali Linux, but I know some basic Linux commands. Any help would be apreciated so that I can get my GPU drivers working correctly please

 

[Thordox]

The method I used to install the Nvidia drivers is the one on this link: https://www.kali.org/docs/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux/

 

[Brickwizard]

from the Kali docs

As the distribution’s developers, you might expect us to recommend that everyone should be using Kali Linux. The fact of the matter is, however, that Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional penetration testers and security specialists, and given its unique nature, it is NOT a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc.

Even for experienced Linux users, Kali can pose some challenges. Although Kali is an open source project, it’s not a wide-open source project, for reasons of security. The development team is small and trusted, packages in the repositories are signed both by the individual committer and the team, and - importantly - the set of upstream repositories from which updates and new packages are drawn is very small. Adding repositories to your software sources which have not been tested by the Kali Linux development team is a good way to cause problems on your system.

 

[Thordox]

from the Kali docs

As the distribution’s developers, you might expect us to recommend that everyone should be using Kali Linux. The fact of the matter is, however, that Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional penetration testers and security specialists, and given its unique nature, it is NOT a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc.

Even for experienced Linux users, Kali can pose some challenges. Although Kali is an open source project, it’s not a wide-open source project, for reasons of security. The development team is small and trusted, packages in the repositories are signed both by the individual committer and the team, and - importantly - the set of upstream repositories from which updates and new packages are drawn is very small. Adding repositories to your software sources which have not been tested by the Kali Linux development team is a good way to cause problems on your system.

Don't think it should be necessary to explain this but:

Main reason I am trying to use Kali is because I am trying to learn pen testing, also want to get my GPU drivers up and running to practice brute forcing two way hand shakes directly in Kali using Hashcat without having to transfer the handshake file over to Windows and brute force it there using GPU. Doesn't make much sense to capture two way handshakes on one OS, then have to rebooot and transfer them to another OS just to brute force

 

[Brickwizard]

OK but what the Kali docs say stands, if your not experienced in Linux and terminal competent you will struggle. Why have you chosen Kali, there are another half a dozen or so Pen-testing distributions, some are far easier to install and run than kali, also you can install the "Tools" to any main stream distribution. but knowing how Linux works and being competent on the terminal is recommended by all Pen-testing distributions.

 

[GatorsFan]

"failed to register i2c client ITE8853:00 at 0x4r (-16)"

ITE8853 device is a USB Connector Client Device chip -
ITE=Integrated Technology Express - the maker

Unfortunately the drivers are for Windows - has nothing to do with Nvidia you may have more then one problem going on

https://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion/database/universal-serial-bus-controllers/integhttps://linux-hardware.org/?view=hrated-technology-express-ite/usb-connector-client/

you could go here - https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto
and create a probe to check your hardware state

 

[Thordox]

"failed to register i2c client ITE8853:00 at 0x4r (-16)"

ITE8853 device is a USB Connector Client Device chip -
ITE=Integrated Technology Express - the maker

Unfortunately the drivers are for Windows - has nothing to do with Nvidia you may have more then one problem going on

https://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion/database/universal-serial-bus-controllers/integhttps://linux-hardware.org/?view=hrated-technology-express-ite/usb-connector-client/

you could go here - https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto
and create a probe to check your hardware state

Thanks for the information, this is very helpful. After analyzing a bit I think you are right the Nvidia driver is not the issue here, also I don't think ITE8853 is either. I am running dual 1440p 165Hz monitors, after investigating a bit I think maybe a setting in the xorg.conf might be causing the issue and crashing during boot. Will have to play around a bit with that once I have the chance.

 

[Thordox]

OK but what the Kali docs say stands, if your not experienced in Linux and terminal competent you will struggle. Why have you chosen Kali, there are another half a dozen or so Pen-testing distributions, some are far easier to install and run than kali, also you can install the "Tools" to any main stream distribution. but knowing how Linux works and being competent on the terminal is recommended by all Pen-testing distributions.

Some times even the most "user friendly" distro can have issues, I have had issues running something as simple as Mint and even PopOS on certain platforms. I am well aware that no Distro will work perfect on all platforms straight out of the box and may require some tinkering. By being new to Kali I mainly refer to running it directly in a box, I do run it both on Virtual Box and WSL on my Windows image. But trying to get a graphics driver to work on any OS in a type 2 hypervisor is nearly close to impossible and not even worth the effort.

Also we have to remember that Nvidia has not released any open source drivers, that is why their graphics cards can be a bit buggy on Linux. As Linus Torvalds said in a conference "Nvidia, F*** you" LoL