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Old 05-27-2013, 10:29 AM   #6
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IIRC, I was once there and trying to do this. I may be completely wrong, but as far as I can remember (sold my DX over a year ago!) the Kindle's software (user interface level) will never enable its "Online" features (Browser and others) for a USB network connection and will always try to enable 3G networking instead. It doesn't really check for a "generic" connection but rather checks the 3G network connections and finds that this isn't established. So I guess that making it use the USB network connection is a bit harder, since it would also need intercepting/replicating the 3G network connection.

I may be a bit off track here and mix my experiences with the K3, but I'm somewhat sure.

The question is: what should the network connection be used for? If that is outside the scope of Amazon's software, then of course a "generic" connection via USB networking is just fine. Like e.g. for using software in a terminal application or similar.
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