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Old 12-20-2011, 04:41 AM   #8
dionoea
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Device: kindle 4
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Originally Posted by chrisp View Post
you "re-wrote the information from a Windows user perspective" - so do you have an instruction for the same purpose for Kindle 4 (NO Touch) on Linux systems?
Getting shell access from linux would go something like:
* Connect your kindle as a usb mass storage device
* touch ENABLE_DIAGS in the device's root
* reboot the kindle through the setting menu's menu
* you're now in diags mode
* connect your kindle and computer using the usb cable (nothing should happen)
* in the menu, enable usb networking (Misc individual diagnostics > Utilities > Enable USBnet)
* the kindle should now register as a usb ethernet device (relevant messages should appear in /var/log/syslog )
* on your computer configure the ip address on that device: ip addr add 192.168.15.241/24 dev usb0
* use ssh to connect to the kindle: ssh root@192.168.15.244
* the password should be "mario". If mario doesn't work, use the python script mentionned in the previous post to generate the password from your serial number.

This is just a long version of https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...03#post1868403 and subsequent posts.

Btw, note that "FW" in diagnostics mode refers to the "Five Way" controller, aka the direction/ok pad.

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