I've been following this thread since its inception and all who have participated deserve a huge cheer.
My interest is purely in updating the screensaver images for my Mums K4.0 nt. It is the 15th so I've got about a week to sort this out before Xmas is upon us.
I am able to drop the kindle into diagnostics by creating the ENABLE_DIAGS file and rebooting. I can then Enable USBnet thru the Diag menu.
I am not able to SSH to the kindle using 192.168.15.244 from a Windows 7 64bit laptop that has an IP set to 192.168.15.1 - I simply get the
Unable to connect msg.
I have tried this multiple times in various ways without sucess. I am using Putty to attempt to SSH. I have also tried to telnet in as well. So a few queries in regard to dionoea's instructions (below):
1. Reboot into diag mode
2. Enable usbnetworking and configure the computer side of the link to 192.168.15.1 (or anything in that subnet)
3. ssh to 192.168.15.244 using "root" as login and "mario" as password.
1. Do I need to install Fastboot - I assume no as per dionoea's instructions
2. At what point in time do I connect the USB cable - after step 2(?)
3. After enabling usbnetworking do I need to reboot the kindle?
4. Is the usbnetworking configuration persistent?
5. Any ideas whether one could connect using telnet instead of SSH? (which I had not previously used)
Whilst in an attempt to connect (and failing...again) I also updated the USBnet.xml file, which is created after configuring usbnetworking, to set the ipNumber to zero and which would (hopefully
) allow me to connect to the kindle using 192.168.
0.244 from my laptop which had an IP in the subnet 192.168.0.*.
This also failed (again... anybody note the common theme here!) to allow me to gain access via SSH
The contents of the USBnet.xml file are as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- USB Net info -->
<USB_NetInfo ipNumber="15" device_NFS_path="/mnt/gen3/factory" host_NFS_path="/scratchbox/nfs/factory/" />
So help - if not me then my Mum
I am having thoughts that the problem may well be to do with SSH and Win7 64bit rather than the procedures documented.
I would appreciate any comments from anybody who has managed to do this.
Cheers