[Starhawk]

Originally Posted by unrequited

You can always manually update by going to the kindle download firmware page (follow the steps here):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...1manualupdates

Ah, so what I learned from that page is that, for an update to be done, both of these conditions must be true:

• The Kindle is connected to WhisperNet.
• The Kindle is asleep.

So I did those, and lo and behold, my Kindle 2 started updating itself after a minute or two of sleep.