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I recently installed Kali Linux on my PC, making it dual booting with Windows 10. I have a 500GB m.2 Samsung 980 Pro SSD where I've installed Windows 10 and I have another 500GB Samsung EVO 860 SSD where I've installed Kali Linux. I've installed Grub so when I turn on my computer, I have the option to pick Windows 10 or Kali.

If I pick Kali, I'm getting the following error before the login screen:

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I'm able to login to Kali, however, if the above error shows, Kali is not able to detect my wifi adapter (Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200).

HOWEVER, If I first boot into Windows 10, restart the PC, then boot into Kali, I get the following different set of errors, and wifi connects automatically and everything works.

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I've tried this many times and the pattern is: if I want wifi to work in Kali, I'll need to boot into windows first then kali. Otherwise, if I boot straight into Kali, wifi adapter will not be found and wifi will not work.

How do I fix this wifi issue?

Hardware specs:

  • Gigabyte B550I Aorus Pro AX
  • AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
  • Samsung 980 Pro 500GB NVMe (Windows 10 installed)
  • Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD (Kali Linux installed)
  • Nvidia RTX3080 FE
  • Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200

Thanks

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    Please don't post images if you can get that information from the log files (check /var/log/kern.log or similar).
    – Eduardo Trápani
    Mar 20, 2021 at 16:57
  • @Eduardo thanks for the tip.
    – Chairman Meow
    Mar 21, 2021 at 3:36

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Try to disable Windows Fast Boot and see if it works.

If you have a dual-boot machine with a recent version of Windows and start seeing problems during initialization of the WiFi device when booting Linux, the problem could be due to the “fast startup” feature on Windows.

From here.

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  • Glad it helped. Do you know why I didn't get the bounty?
    – Eduardo Trápani
    Mar 30, 2021 at 18:25
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Download the wifi driver iwlwifi-cc-46.3cfab8da.0.tgz from Intel website then extract to /lib/firmware directory.

Firmware during the installation

You can also download the firmware archive for your platform and unpack it into a directory named firmware in the root of a removable storage device (USB/CD drive). ...

When the installer starts, it will automatically find the firmware files in the directory on the removable storage and, if needed, install the required firmware.

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