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Old 12-31-2018, 06:27 AM   #557
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Device: Kobo Aura One,HD,H2O,Touch,Mini,Kindle 3+DXG,Nook Simple Touch
Every time I install KSM I have to find how to disable the "autoselect" option and always I have to discover it from scratch. Initially it was in the proper user configuration files. Then it moved to the root filesystem somewhere in /adds/kbmenu and now it is completely gone. So, how do I disable it? Grepping points to autoselect in the actual kobomenu ELF binary, but I really hope it didn't get hardcoded there and it is still possible to disable autoselect?

Other things that, imho, are making KSM 09 slightly worse than KSM 08 are:

1. Remote web interface. Totally unnecessary. A UNIX computer (and all eInk devices are Linux and therefore UNIX computers) is administered only by editing text files in /etc and not via some GUI or (horror!) web thingies. But it is good that it is disabled by default.

2. The sshd (dropbear) is not started when usbnet interface is activated. What use is usbnet if there is no sshd? As I said, proper administration is done only via ssh to the node and then editing text files. So, usbnet without sshd is useless. Fortunately, vlasovsoft bundle includes dropbear which is activated by "WiFi Server" menu option (but it has its own problems).

3. usbnet and wifi interfaces activated by default when the device starts, so I had to use the "rmc" web interface to disable them. Remember eInk devices are so slow that they are practically unusable if you leave network devices and things like dropbear active (and also suspend will sometimes break and thousands of other minor problems will appear). I always reboot a device after any network interface was up even for a short period of time. I even disable the getty via /etc/inittab because it eats a few kilobytes of precious memory that could be used for rendering a few glyphs of a page of some book
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