accidental IRC - A native command line IRC client.

[willwac]

I have NO idea how to "compile" and/or run this on my black, jail broken Kindle 4NT.
Can anyone recommend a guide for me?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by willwac

I have NO idea how to "compile" and/or run this on my black, jail broken Kindle 4NT.
Can anyone recommend a guide for me?

Use this version here, since it is packaged as an extension for KUAL:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=42

And you need kterm as well.

You can also use the binaries linked here as-is, no need to compile.

[willwac]

Both kterm and accirc crashes when I try to run them via KUAL.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by willwac

Both kterm and accirc crashes when I try to run them via KUAL.

Something is wrong at your end.

Without any more description than "crashes" we can't tell anything else about the problem.

Does the README in the packages and/or the post you found those packages at have anything to say about them being for your K4 model?

[twobob]

there is no terminal for a kindle 4.

This will never work for that.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by twobob

there is no terminal for a kindle 4.

This will never work for that.

Thanks for the reminder.
I missed that one entirely (and evidently so did everyone else).

[Kartoffelr]

I think i set up the config correctly, gave myself a nickname. Still all i can see is this three lines pop up:

nick
user 1 2 3 4
fallback net set to

And then the application crashes (the console closes without interaction).
Is this still beeing developed?

I really like the idea to have IRC on my kindle without using the browser and a web client.

[knc1]

Your info block says: "Kindle Paperwhite" -
without any hint as to which model (Gen-1 or Gen-2).
Your post does not help any with information on model or firmware version you are using.

Ah, so let us start out at the basics, where did you get your firmware package(s)?
From this link? -> :: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...1&postcount=29
From this link? -> :: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...8&postcount=42
From the first post in this thread?
Which of those packages did you install?
What model of Paperwhite?
What firmware version?
Where did your version of kterm come from?
What version?

[Kartoffelr]

Thanks for your reply - indeed i should have known to give this information at the beginning.

What model of Paperwhite?
What firmware version?

PW1, i am using firmware 5.4.4.2.

Which of those packages did you install?

From the twobobs post, "accidental-irc.zip (421.3 KB)".
I actually have trouble to distinguish this versions(?) from each other.

Where did your version of kterm come from?
What version?

From http://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-terminal/

[knc1]

Hmm....

The only thing that jumps out at me is that your firmware is much more recent than any acirc was ever tested on.

(I think the "4.0" is just a typo - but that package which twobob built would probably be the most recent.)

I have that copy of kterm running on a PW1 without problems -
but again, I am still running the 5.3.3 firmware version.

- - - - -

Welcome to the world of application testing.

[Kartoffelr]

Other KUAL applications are working fine for me with firmware 5.4.4.2, including kterm (that's why i forgot to think about the different firmware as the cause).

Unfortunately i didn't try accidental IRC out before upgrading the firmware.

Welcome to the world of application testing.

Of course i am more then willing to help you guys with testing stuff. Without your work on mobileread, the Kindle would be an inferior device.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Kartoffelr

Other KUAL applications are working fine for me with firmware 5.4.4.2, including kterm (that's why i forgot to think about the different firmware as the cause).

Unfortunately i didn't try accidental IRC out before upgrading the firmware.

Of course i am more then willing to help you guys with testing stuff. Without your work on mobileread, the Kindle would be an inferior device.

twobob was using his own build of it himself - so I expect it **was** working.
I.E: This isn't just an example binary he through together for other people to play with.

The other things that you report as working seems to narrow your problem down to just acirc -

I don't use this IRC client myself, so we need to wait for someone with more hands-on experience with it.
(and twobob is not available)

[NiLuJe]

I remember that there were some OpenSSL hijinks that prompted me to provide a couple of test builds at one point, but I don't really remember what exactly was behaving badly.

The upstream URL also happens to be dead right now, but the author used to hang out on our irc chan, so you may want to try there.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

I remember that there were some OpenSSL hijinks that prompted me to provide a couple of test builds at one point, but I don't really remember what exactly was behaving badly.

The upstream URL also happens to be dead right now, but the author used to hang out on our irc chan, so you may want to try there.

According to your earlier comment with those posts -
They changed OpenSSL version sometime during the 5.x firmware series and you had to either static link and/or something else to get rid of the OpenSSL related errors.

HTH.

[NiLuJe]

Ha, and that was only, like, 10 posts behind ;p. Thanks!

That did lead me to another URL, with newer sources: http://neutrak.kaycare.co.uk/index.p...accidental_irc

So I'll try to build that later tonight.