Doesn't work for Kali with Thunderbolt cable?

[therealjayvi90]

I see all over the place that this is supposed to work over Thunderbolt cable, but I haven't been able to actually get it to register that anything is even plugged in. Is there something I'm missing? There seems to be no Interface for Thunderbolt...

[carmaa]

Assuming you are using Kali as the attack platform? I haven't tested thunderbolt support for Linux yet, so not sure that will work. Thunderbolt from a MacOS works.

[therealjayvi90]

Managed to figure out the issue. Newer MacBooks are restricted to only Thunderbolt ports as an option, and newer versions of MacOS (>= El Capitan) have removed /dev/fw* as an option while using Thunderbolt; even with using any type of conversion adapter.
Booting into Kali I noticed that by using a Thunderbolt to iEEE 9-pin adapter, combined with a 9-pin to 4-pin cable, I had devices showing as /dev/fw0 and /dev/fw1. Worked perfectly from this point on!

For reference I'm using a 2015 15" MacBook Pro i7, dual-booted to the latest release of Kali (amd64).

[carmaa]

Thanks for closing and the info above.