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C.Bandicoot · 02-17-2022, 11:01 AM

Hi,
I got my hands on an old Kindle Touch for 5 bucks and followed the instructions here so far without the slightest issue.

Now I would love to be able to access the device via ssh for coding but I'm facing a few issues in the readme of the usbnet hack.

I was able to follow the instructions, installed usbnet, set up keypairs, copied the pub key into usbnet/etc/authorized_keys
So far so good but now I'm at the point where I need to know the name of the usb interface and where I have to "configure the network interface manually via OS X's GUI ".

I'm using Big Sur Mac OS 11 in the settings under network I do see the device as RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget but if I set the config to manual and the IP address to 192.168.15.201 (which is what I set in the configs) it shows that another device is already using that ip - if I change it to ...15.244 or whatever its the same so I guess something is going wrong here already.

Then I don't really know how to find the usb interface name because the grep command described in the readme returns nothing indicating that there was no system message about the device.

I can see USBNetwork in KUAL and use all settings there just fine but it seems that the device is not using the correct IP address as I looked into my router and searched for the devices mac address from the device settings menu and found that its using a different IP address
I can ssh to that ip address, but then its asking me for a password so the key-login might not be set up correctly there or so.

If anyone would have any hints for me on where I can try to go on that would be super nice. Thanks in advance!

02-17-2022, 11:01 AM	#1
C.Bandicoot Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2022 Device: K5 (Touch)	Usbnet port 22 unreachable Hi, I got my hands on an old Kindle Touch for 5 bucks and followed the instructions here so far without the slightest issue. Now I would love to be able to access the device via ssh for coding but I'm facing a few issues in the readme of the usbnet hack. I was able to follow the instructions, installed usbnet, set up keypairs, copied the pub key into usbnet/etc/authorized_keys So far so good but now I'm at the point where I need to know the name of the usb interface and where I have to "configure the network interface manually via OS X's GUI ". I'm using Big Sur Mac OS 11 in the settings under network I do see the device as RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget but if I set the config to manual and the IP address to 192.168.15.201 (which is what I set in the configs) it shows that another device is already using that ip - if I change it to ...15.244 or whatever its the same so I guess something is going wrong here already. Then I don't really know how to find the usb interface name because the grep command described in the readme returns nothing indicating that there was no system message about the device. I can see USBNetwork in KUAL and use all settings there just fine but it seems that the device is not using the correct IP address as I looked into my router and searched for the devices mac address from the device settings menu and found that its using a different IP address I can ssh to that ip address, but then its asking me for a password so the key-login might not be set up correctly there or so. If anyone would have any hints for me on where I can try to go on that would be super nice. Thanks in advance!