04-23-2012, 11:01 PM | #1 |
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Kindle Touch USB Networking/SSH
I hear a lot of people talking about this, and I honestly have no clue how it works or what it is, but I'd like to find out, and I've so far been unable to find a user friendly, novice/beginner/ignorant person guide to how it works.
Could someone direct me to something along those lines? |
04-24-2012, 08:39 AM | #3 |
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Unfortunately, I think you're underestimating the level of my ignorance.
I've looked at that before, and it's quite confusing. I have the jailbreak and launcher installed, so I know I can start usbnetworking, but as to how I effect changes or SSH into the device, it gives no indication. It gives instructions how to enable it, but assumes one knows what to do once it's been enabled, and of course I do not. |
04-24-2012, 08:53 AM | #4 |
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No worries.
so you have it enabled? Then, the rest is a breeze, I'll walk you through. Do you have the USBNetwork installed with GUI launcher installer? If so, you would have this available to you: "Menu > Launcher > Start USBNetworking" Select it. If you don't have, just go to your Kindle's main screen and type ";un" without double quotes. Then attach your Kindle to your PC. Now confirm to me that when you did this, your Kindle doesn't go to the so called USB mode. Now, we have to actually connect. Are you in Windows? If so install Putty and configure it so you can connect to 192.168.15.244 with username "root" and password of your Kindle. Let me know where you are stuck and I'll help. Last edited by thatworkshop; 04-24-2012 at 09:09 AM. |
04-24-2012, 08:59 AM | #5 |
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ChrisKaos: I do not really understand what you need it for, given that you don't have knowledge about shell access/SSH yet. You are aware that it makes it easy to brick your Kindle, right? That is not intended to sound harsh, just a fair warning. Of course you can start learning about Linux/Unix command line interfaces with your Kindle, too.
BTW, when you follow cscat suggestions and you _are_ running Windows, you may find that there's no "ssh" command installed. Windows doesn't ship with an SSH client, so you might have to install it yourself. However, my recommendation would not have been a pure CLI client but rather PuTTY, I think. But either one should work. |
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04-24-2012, 09:01 AM | #6 |
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I turned on USB networking via the launcher. Connected it to my computer by USB. Kindle did not go into USB drive mode.
I opened up cmd and typed what you said and it spat out "'ssh' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." I was kind of hoping I could do this via wifi as well, but baby steps I guess. |
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04-24-2012, 09:10 AM | #8 |
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good. I edited my previous post. Please read it again.
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04-24-2012, 09:10 AM | #9 |
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I think besides the problem I mentioned (no SSH client installed), you might also have missed to set a proper IP address to the USB network device on your host PC that should have shown up instead of the Mass Storage device.
Edit: Three people posting almost at the same time. Please try to make sense of it :-) |
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Network error: connection timed out.
I recall reading somewhere that my computer's IP has to be something particular? |
04-24-2012, 11:33 AM | #13 |
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To communicate "normally" it just needs to be a unique IP address in the same subnet (first 3 octets the same as the kindle). But some diagnostic functions want it to be 192.168.15.201, so that is a good IP address to use for the host PC side of your USBnet connection. And the K5(touch) is then 192.168.15.244. You cannot have any OTHER network device using that subnet at the same time, or it will interfere with the USBnet connection. For example, you can only plug in ONE kindle at a time that uses that subnet.
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If you have the USBnet driver installed on your PC, it will show in linux as device usb0 when the kindle is plugged in, or on windows it will show as an RNDIS network device. You need to manually assign the IP address for that device on the host PC because the kindle is not running a DHCP server. The ;711 command on the kindle also shows the IP of a different device (the wifi port). The USBnet will use the IP addresses I said in my previous post. |
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