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AllUnknown · 09-27-2015, 11:10 AM

Hi -

Does anybody offer support on ancient technology any more?

I am now the proud owner of three formerly owned Kindle 2nd gen Internationals (serial codes B003xxxxxxxxxxxx). I’m interested in running them as little Linux boxes, so I’ve been reading as much as I can about it. I was able to jailbreak (update_jailbreak_0.4_k2i_uninstall.bin), install the screen saver hack (Update_ss_0.47.N_k2i_uninstall.bin), and get usbnetwork (Update_usbnetwork_0.57.N_k2i_uninstall.bin) working (using ;debugon `usbnetwork I could telnet or ssh in) with my macbook running Yosemite. I apologize if I’m giving too much detail here, but I figured better too much than too little. I wasn’t able to get a terminal of any kind running on it, because I wasn’t sure which way to go with that. I tried MyTS, but I couldn’t get it to launch. So that’s question 1 - how do I do that?

Question 2 is weirder, at least to me. I decided to configure the second Kindle like the first one, and no matter what I did, I could not get it to mount in network mode. I did the installs, no luck. I uninstalled the usbnetwork patch and reinstalled it, no luck (it didn’t even delete the subnetwork directory on the kindle). I did a factory reset and started over again, and no change. I copied over the usbnetwork directory from the Kindle where it worked, and still nothing (I didn’t really expect much from that, because I still can’t look at anything above the mount point).

What am I missing, and any ideas of how to proceed?

09-27-2015, 11:10 AM	#1
AllUnknown Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2015 Device: Kindle 2	usbnetworking and terminal questions Hi - Does anybody offer support on ancient technology any more? I am now the proud owner of three formerly owned Kindle 2nd gen Internationals (serial codes B003xxxxxxxxxxxx). I’m interested in running them as little Linux boxes, so I’ve been reading as much as I can about it. I was able to jailbreak (update_jailbreak_0.4_k2i_uninstall.bin), install the screen saver hack (Update_ss_0.47.N_k2i_uninstall.bin), and get usbnetwork (Update_usbnetwork_0.57.N_k2i_uninstall.bin) working (using ;debugon `usbnetwork I could telnet or ssh in) with my macbook running Yosemite. I apologize if I’m giving too much detail here, but I figured better too much than too little. I wasn’t able to get a terminal of any kind running on it, because I wasn’t sure which way to go with that. I tried MyTS, but I couldn’t get it to launch. So that’s question 1 - how do I do that? Question 2 is weirder, at least to me. I decided to configure the second Kindle like the first one, and no matter what I did, I could not get it to mount in network mode. I did the installs, no luck. I uninstalled the usbnetwork patch and reinstalled it, no luck (it didn’t even delete the subnetwork directory on the kindle). I did a factory reset and started over again, and no change. I copied over the usbnetwork directory from the Kindle where it worked, and still nothing (I didn’t really expect much from that, because I still can’t look at anything above the mount point). What am I missing, and any ideas of how to proceed?