Kobo Start Menu 08

[Kulchar]

Guys, i getting really confused about how to get Kobo Start Menu 08 working in my h2o 2nd edition.
Somebody had more fortune than me and able to use it?
What should i do to get it work?
I'm really a newbie i hope i postet it for the right section.
Thanks in advance!

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Kulchar

Guys, i getting really confused about how to get Kobo Start Menu 08 working in my h2o 2nd edition.
Somebody had more fortune than me and able to use it?
What should i do to get it work?
I'm really a newbie i hope i postet it for the right section.
Thanks in advance!

Wait for KSM 09. It is coming soon.

[Kulchar]

Originally Posted by tshering

Wait for KSM 09. It is coming soon.

Thanks. It's a bit off topic, but till the new version of ksm 09 comes how i supposed to read books in my reader? If i understand right i only can read what i already bought from the Kobo shop? I tried drag and drop rtf and mobi as well...

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Kulchar

Thanks. It's a bit off topic, but till the new version of ksm 09 comes how i supposed to read books in my reader? If i understand right i only can read what i already bought from the Kobo shop? I tried drag and drop rtf and mobi as well...

I don't think the stock Kobo software will read mobi, and you might have to convert the rtf to txt or epub. The rtf can be easily converted to txt in windows. You should be able to use calibre to convert to epub.

Luck;
Ken

[Kulchar]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

I don't think the stock Kobo software will read mobi, and you might have to convert the rtf to txt or epub. The rtf can be easily converted to txt in windows. You should be able to use calibre to convert to epub.

Luck;
Ken

I made a factory reset after upgrading for the newest software then installed kobo files monitor, and now it's readin epub, mobi and pcr as well. I don't know why, but i'm happy with it

[gaurav_singh_md]

Originally Posted by tshering

This does not seem to be helpful.
If you search the Kobo forum, you will find a lot of complaints concerning wifi (on devices with and without modifications). Since we are in the current situation unable to find the specific source of the problem, I would recommend that you re-install the firmware (see here). When installing it, select "install partial update" (not "install update"). If wifi still does not work, install the firmware that you had before the last update.

How exactly do i uninstall koreader? just delete the folder from the .add folder?
What i want to do now is:
Uninstall everything (koreader, ksm)
Do a factory reset
start from scratch and maybe this time it will work.
2 questions -
1. How do i uninstall ksm and koreader?
2. if i do a factory reset will it safely wipe out everything without bricking the device?
Thanks for the help.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by gaurav_singh_md

How exactly do i uninstall koreader? just delete the folder from the .add folder?
What i want to do now is:
Uninstall everything (koreader, ksm)
Do a factory reset
start from scratch and maybe this time it will work.
2 questions -
1. How do i uninstall ksm and koreader?
2. if i do a factory reset will it safely wipe out everything without bricking the device?
Thanks for the help.

If you factory reset the device, there is no need to unistall anything. Everything will be wiped out automatically. And yes, by design it does this without breaking the device.

To uninstall Koreader: delete the folder koreader from .adds.

To uninstall KSM: select "tools" > "ksm diverse.msh" > "delete KSM.sh" (this will delete the part of KSM that is located on the system partition and restart the device, which will boot into nickel); then delete the folder kbmenu_user from .adds.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

I don't think the stock Kobo software will read mobi, and you might have to convert the rtf to txt or epub. The rtf can be easily converted to txt in windows. You should be able to use calibre to convert to epub.

The Kobo software does support MOBI format. And it's listed on the specs page. It seems to do a reasonable job whenever I test it. It will also do TXT as long as it is less that 2MB in size. And the specs page also says it supports RTF, but I don't think I have ever tried one.

[masterz87]

Originally Posted by tshering

Wait for KSM 09. It is coming soon.

will this fix the upside down menu bug thing?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by masterz87

will this fix the upside down menu bug thing?

Not yet, but I hope that KSM 09 will help finding a solution.

[tshering]

Please post to this thread only questions or comments specifically related to KSM 08.
For KSM 09, see this thread.

[dnh]

Originally Posted by gaurav_singh_md

this appears:
Failed to initialize network control client: Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant control socket: /var/run/wpa_supplicant/eth0.

I am seeing this with my first generation touch.

It appears that this is because the ar6000 driver uses wlan0 as the interface name rather than eth0. I also noticed that ksm is attempting to load the freescale wireless drivers rather than the ar6000 ones.

I haven't attempted to fix this in ksm, but I was able to get wifi working with koreader by modifying the scripts to use wlan0 instead of eth0. I assume something similar would work in ksm.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by dnh

I am seeing this with my first generation touch.

It appears that this is because the ar6000 driver uses wlan0 as the interface name rather than eth0. I also noticed that ksm is attempting to load the freescale wireless drivers rather than the ar6000 ones.

I haven't attempted to fix this in ksm, but I was able to get wifi working with koreader by modifying the scripts to use wlan0 instead of eth0. I assume something similar would work in ksm.

Thank you for the lead. Could you try the replacements for wifi_enable_dhcp.sh and wifi_disable.sh?

[dnh]

Originally Posted by tshering

Thank you for the lead. Could you try the replacements for wifi_enable_dhcp.sh and wifi_disable.sh?

I gave them a try, but it still isn't working. I think at least part of the issue is that the detection code in scriptmenuwifi.sh isn't looking for ar6000.ko and depends on two modules being loaded, but for ar6000, sdio_wifi_pwr.ko isn't used.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by dnh

I gave them a try, but it still isn't working. I think at least part of the issue is that the detection code in scriptmenuwifi.sh isn't looking for ar6000.ko and depends on two modules being loaded, but for ar6000, sdio_wifi_pwr.ko isn't used.

Thank you again!
I think the script from yesterday was trying to load ar6000.ko. "ar6000" is expected to be the value of WIFI_MODULE in the case of the PLATFORM being "freescale". I did however not understand that sdio_wifi_pwr.ko must not be loaded. So here is my next try.