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Old 06-29-2017, 10:09 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by ShapeShifter499 View Post
@knc1 right ok so I don't have to worry about the 3G going away anytime soon then. But say I want to use this kindle as a neat hacky display or maybe run some program using the keyboard without sending everything over the net via 3G. Is there anything hardware wise that would prevent me from swapping the 3G modem for a WiFi one? I know most of the code is open source so I'd just need to get a correct WiFi driver running on the Linux part of the Kindle.
For those uses, it would not be an inconvenience to have the USB cable connected (to the thing that is the source of what you want to display).

*) Install our USBnetworking package
*) Install our VNC viewer on the Kindle
*) Install a (your choice) VNC server on the machine you want to display.
Done and you didn't even have to open up the device.

In fact, there are several write-ups here on doing exactly the above (what I wrote is only the "Cliff's Notes" version).
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