[idollar]

Hello,

I had the same problem when connecting from my ubuntu.

I was trying to connect with GNOME launched. The network application recognises the USB0 net interface and tries to resolve the IP address using DHCP. As the kindle does not have a DHCP server, the discovery fails and the
interface in the computer is set to the defaut IP address.

Try the following sequence to confirm that you are suffering from a similar problem:

1.- Connect the kindle and launch usbnet hack
2.- Set the ip address in your computer (as you did)
3.- @ the computer, start a session pinging the kindle
4.- Telnet (as you did)
5.- Wait for the system to drop the connection -- wait 30 sec
You will see the ping failing
you may check that you lost the computer IP address by typing
ifconfig usb0
and checking the output
6.- Set the ip address once more as in step 2.- above
The ping shall work again
Your telnet session will be recovered (if you were fast enough with
the step 6)

If the cause for the failure is confirmed, you may change the step 2.- with a permanent configuration in the network manager of your computer.

I hope that this helps.

Cheers

i$