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silver251 · 04-16-2025, 05:20 PM

Hey, sorry if I interrupt, I was reviving my good old KT4 and ended up with a pretty nice idea.
I have a Calibre with OPDS and I use KOReader to connect to it and download my own epubs right into my kindle.

Turns out, that same server is connected to my Tailscale account, and I found this repo:

https://github.com/mitanshu7/tailscale_kual/issues/2

I was able to set it up right away (it appears listed on my devices, and tailscale ping works, ping from the server to the kindle works...) but I was not able to reach the server, turns out its a limitation of the Kernel, has to use a SOCKS5 proxy and its a mess but when I try to run it, the current kernel (4.15, running 5.17.1) tun.ko is not installed.

I am not that fluent compiling (i dont even have an environment ready at this moment) but if anybody could compile it, this would be a nice solution.

I have checked in the source code, the tun.c file is there so I believe it should not be a nightmare (IDK)

Thank you in advance for your help (the amount of hours your threads saved me already is huge).

04-16-2025, 05:20 PM	#1289
silver251 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2025 Device: Kindle KT4	Hey, sorry if I interrupt, I was reviving my good old KT4 and ended up with a pretty nice idea. I have a Calibre with OPDS and I use KOReader to connect to it and download my own epubs right into my kindle. Turns out, that same server is connected to my Tailscale account, and I found this repo: https://github.com/mitanshu7/tailscale_kual/issues/2 I was able to set it up right away (it appears listed on my devices, and tailscale ping works, ping from the server to the kindle works...) but I was not able to reach the server, turns out its a limitation of the Kernel, has to use a SOCKS5 proxy and its a mess but when I try to run it, the current kernel (4.15, running 5.17.1) tun.ko is not installed. I am not that fluent compiling (i dont even have an environment ready at this moment) but if anybody could compile it, this would be a nice solution. I have checked in the source code, the tun.c file is there so I believe it should not be a nightmare (IDK) Thank you in advance for your help (the amount of hours your threads saved me already is huge).