My Kindle Network does not work.

[rtzui]

Hi.

I got at brand new Kindle 4. So far I installed the jailbreak, the kindlet jailbreak, the developer keys, KUAL and usbnetworking.

The latter thing does not work. My kindle seems to refuse any kind of network from outside.

I followed the usbnetwork instructions. On my host the lsusb displays

Bus 001 Device 052: ID 0525:a4a2 Netchip Technology, Inc. Linux-USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget

and the usbnetworkd status in the KUAL menu is enabled.

I do configure the networkinface with like

# ifconfig usb0 192.168.15.201
# ifconfig usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ee:49:00:00:00:00  
          inet addr:192.168.15.201  Bcast:192.168.15.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

But I can't ping the Kindle.

# ping 192.168.15.244
PING 192.168.15.244 (192.168.15.244) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.15.201 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.15.201 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.15.201 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
^C
--- 192.168.15.244 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3000ms
pipe 4
# ssh 192.168.15.244
ssh: connect to host 192.168.15.244 port 22: No route to host

Same thing goes for the Wifi connection. I added my ssh public key to usbnet/etc/authorized_keys and enabled ssh over wifi via KULA. Pinging or sshing to the wifi ip address of the kindle does lead to the same results.

[knc1]

In the "I configured ... "
You only set the interface address without specifying any routing.
Which is just fine, if your PC is already routing that interface network.

From the last message of: "connect to host 192.168.15.244 port 22: No route to host"
It is fairly obvious that your PC **is not** already routing that interface network.

Please post the output of:
ip route show

You should probably also confirm that the addresses you are using are correct for the K4.

[rtzui]

The output of ping says it's sending from 192.168.15.201, so that seems fine, just as the route.

#ip route show
default via 192.168.178.1 dev wlan0  proto static 
192.168.15.0/24 dev usb0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.15.201 
192.168.178.0/24 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.178.31  metric 2

/edit, what the hell? my routes are chaning. Now they are back to normal. And it does work.

/edit 2: Ok, it's all the fault of network-manager. I curse you!

[knc1]

OK - so check the USBnetwork configuration file on the Kindle - see what address it has been set to.

and/or use nmap on the 192.168.15.0/24 sub-net to find it.

[rtzui]

Thank you very much, now it works. network-manager is being network-manager and destroying the network. Your post hinted to me my routes are constantly chaning.

[knc1]

Got tired of that piece of #$%# software myself.
Hints: http://askubuntu.com/questions/24994...networkmanager

ifup/ifdown in the right places, along with the /etc/network/interfaces configuration file has been working just fine for years.
and still does if you take a big stick to NetworkManager.

[NiLuJe]

Yup, while NM is nice to have for some use cases (laptop/netbook/traveling/newbie), on a desktop/dev computer I firmly put it in the 'overkill & counterproductive/annoying' box .

(That said, I haven't used anything shipping NM for, err, quite a while, but given the number of issues we've had reported that could be traced back to NM...)