Last time we performed a jailbreak on our Kindle and installed a bunch of wonderful extensions. Now it's time to go deeper into the innards of the liberated e-reader and extend its capabilities even further.

  1. Connecting to the Kindle via SSH from Raspberry Pi

    On Kindle, fire up KUAL and select USBNetwork -> * Toggle USBNetwork *. Plug your Kindle into Raspberry Pi via USB (I'm assuming you have a working Raspberry Pi set up already, with keyboard/mouse, a monitor and a wifi dongle). Since mass storage mode is incompatable with SSH, eject Kindle.

    Now on Raspberry Pi:

     # ifconfig usb0 192.168.15.201

    Test if you can connect via SSH yet:

     # ssh root@192.168.15.201

    It will ask for a password, just hit Enter. You are in! Well, at least you should be. Refer to the enclosed README_FIRST in USBNetwork folder if you are in trouble.

  2. Make your future logins more swoosh with shared keys

    First, let's get rid of 192.168.15.201 by adding this line to your /etc/hosts:

    1. 168.15.244 kindle

    Now on to the keys themselves:

     cd ~/.ssh
 ssh-keygen -C "Our Kindle key" -f id_kindle

    Enter your favorite passphrase. You should have id_kindle and id_kindle.pub. Let's copy your public key to the Kindle:

     scp id_kindle.pub root@kindle:/mnt/us/usbnet/etc/authorized_keys

    That's it! To make SSHing even more automatic, try things with ssh agent and keychain.

  3. Install Extend

    Extend (home) - additional command line tools, most importantly - ssh client, which is crucial for our end goal.

    • Download Extend

      Place extend and extensions folder in the root directory of your Kindle. You can do it either via usual USB connection or through SSH.

    • Next, connect to your Kindle via SSH and execute following commands:

        # ./mnt/us/install.sh
  # ln -s /mnt/us/circles/mountd /etc/rc5.d/S101mountd

      That should be it. We are now ready for the final step on this rather dragged out journey to Kindleberry Pi.