[opensuse] KOBO and Leap - how to connect via wlan
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this? Or has anybody does this with leap? I will have to set this up in a few days with a leap 42.3 based system that I will set up. What ports do I have to open? Any special things to do? On Leap the KOBO would be managed by Calibre. The system has a double NIC, the onboard one eth for internet and a pci-e wlan card to connect to hardware like KOBO. So I guess I will have to do some settings, but I do not know if it is better to set the cards up with wicked or nm. Any suggestions? Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2017-10-26 20:26, stakanov wrote:
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this?
What model of kobo? For instance, I have a Kobo Touch, and it only connects via usb. The device appears as one or two normal usb "disks", or directly on Calibre. Nothing to do with network connections or firewalls. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
On 2017-10-26 20:26, stakanov wrote:
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this?
What model of kobo?
For instance, I have a Kobo Touch, and it only connects via usb. The device appears as one or two normal usb "disks", or directly on Calibre. Nothing to do with network connections or firewalls. Well, I do not know the model as it is not mine (will see this when I arrive). But it connects via wlan AFAIU. I will try to update this here when I am with the kobo in front. I asked that because I will have to revise the machine for what is network,
In data venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 11:22:39 CEST, Carlos E. R. ha scritto: there is a problem that up to now I do not understand. The WLAN works the eth does not. When the eth works the wlan is not seen. So I am puzzled and have to controll for a hardware and address conflict. Afterwards I have to understand why (that is an update of 13.2 to 42.2) this is so, and I am orientated (after taking note of the packages to install) to redo a fresh install from scratch (at the time I choose BTRFS which also makes a lot of problems and I will change to EXT4 to be on the safe side. The user is not able to perform a rollback anyway and installs no software of unknown origin). Then maybe the wlan/eth problem is solved already. But still I want her to connect with wlan to the machine and have an easy setup with the kobo. With the update to 42.2 already the users android phone works perfectly, how nice. Just the kobo is left, as to say. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2017-10-27 at 13:32 +0200, stakanov wrote:
On 2017-10-26 20:26, stakanov wrote:
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this?
What model of kobo?
For instance, I have a Kobo Touch, and it only connects via usb. The device appears as one or two normal usb "disks", or directly on Calibre. Nothing to do with network connections or firewalls. Well, I do not know the model as it is not mine (will see this when I arrive). But it connects via wlan AFAIU. I will try to update this here when I am with the kobo in front. I asked that because I will have to revise the machine for what is network,
In data venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 11:22:39 CEST, Carlos E. R. ha scritto: there is a problem that up to now I do not understand.
The Kobo as I know is only an electronic book reader, not a computer. It does have a WiFi, but I can not connect to it. It connects to Kobo public servers on Internet to download books and updates, and a few things more, like wikipedia lookup of a term from the book. So nothing of what you say makes sense to me. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlnzIJIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WKpACeNyAPv/bmD+89qUR9wf+wjnzy gm4An3ef82ld7CbOxM9HCr3ux2MDcxeI =syoj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
stakanov wrote:
In data venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 11:22:39 CEST, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
On 2017-10-26 20:26, stakanov wrote:
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this?
What model of kobo?
For instance, I have a Kobo Touch, and it only connects via usb. The device appears as one or two normal usb "disks", or directly on Calibre. Nothing to do with network connections or firewalls. Well, I do not know the model as it is not mine (will see this when I arrive). But it connects via wlan AFAIU.
I'm having a H2O. It does have WLAN, but this just connects to (any) access point, and after that you can use the software on the reader to buy and download books etc. I think there also was something like a browser in the tools at some point... But I always have it turned off, exclusively manage it using calibre via USB. There are some plugins for calibre that you can install for kobo. It just detects the kobo when you plug it in, and you can copy/delete stuff. In doubt check the mobileread website (http://www.mobileread.com/forums), there's lots of help and howtos there regarding linux and kobos.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
In data venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 14:53:40 CEST, Peter Suetterlin ha scritto:
stakanov wrote:
In data venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 11:22:39 CEST, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
On 2017-10-26 20:26, stakanov wrote:
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this?
What model of kobo?
For instance, I have a Kobo Touch, and it only connects via usb. The device appears as one or two normal usb "disks", or directly on Calibre. Nothing to do with network connections or firewalls.
Well, I do not know the model as it is not mine (will see this when I arrive). But it connects via wlan AFAIU.
I'm having a H2O. It does have WLAN, but this just connects to (any) access point, and after that you can use the software on the reader to buy and download books etc. I think there also was something like a browser in the tools at some point...
But I always have it turned off, exclusively manage it using calibre via USB. There are some plugins for calibre that you can install for kobo. It just detects the kobo when you plug it in, and you can copy/delete stuff.
In doubt check the mobileread website (http://www.mobileread.com/forums), there's lots of help and howtos there regarding linux and kobos.... Thank you! I will bookmark it. That was helpful. I never saw the KOBO of the user. Just had (800 km distance) a request that "when you come, could you make this work.... " so that is what I am going to do. The wlan update shall be no problem, user has a fritz.box, quite easy going once one authorizes the hardware.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2017-10-27 at 13:53 +0100, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
stakanov wrote:
In data venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 11:22:39 CEST, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
On 2017-10-26 20:26, stakanov wrote:
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this?
What model of kobo?
For instance, I have a Kobo Touch, and it only connects via usb. The device appears as one or two normal usb "disks", or directly on Calibre. Nothing to do with network connections or firewalls. Well, I do not know the model as it is not mine (will see this when I arrive). But it connects via wlan AFAIU.
I'm having a H2O. It does have WLAN, but this just connects to (any) access point, and after that you can use the software on the reader to buy and download books etc. I think there also was something like a browser in the tools at some point...
That's the same thing my kobo touch does. It has an experimental browser. When reading a book, I can mark a word, do a search of that word in the book, in a dictionary (there are dictionaries for several languages and for translations), or search the word online on the wikipedia. I don't remember if it searches google. But it is very slow rendering pages. In my case, a problem is that it forgets the WiFi password randomly. I can buy a book directly from the kobo device - when you setup the account and purchase the first book it saves the credit/debit card data for subsequent purchases; this is impossible to disable, so I pay via paypal instead. Normally I buy using a computer, from any browser; the book automatically uploads to the kobo via wifi. It is as easy as can be. It has and uses DRM, transparently. They do frequent updates to the kobo device, changing the layouts and some functions. I don't understand why so many changes. The Kobo connects also to a proprietary software using Windows via USB cable. If you don't have Windows, you have to use the WiFi instead "officially". There was initially some unofficial software for Ubuntu, but the developer disapeared years ago. Abandonware.
But I always have it turned off, exclusively manage it using calibre via USB. There are some plugins for calibre that you can install for kobo. It just detects the kobo when you plug it in, and you can copy/delete stuff.
In doubt check the mobileread website (http://www.mobileread.com/forums), there's lots of help and howtos there regarding linux and kobos....
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