05-05-2024, 02:48 AM | #16 |
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Oh, sorry. I misread your post. Maybe Kobo has increased the security level on the current firmware? Developer mode has always been enough by itself to enable telnet for me on 4.35 and earlier.
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05-05-2024, 04:03 AM | #17 | |
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I see. I’ll have to try that on my daughter’s Clara HD. It doesn’t have nm installed. Do you happen to know the login info for the new devices? I think you posted something about it elsewhere, but I can’t find it. |
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05-05-2024, 04:33 AM | #18 | |
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(On the other hand, my old Libra H2O has not been able to connect to my home wifi since I switched router/network several months ago, whereas it connects without problem to my smartphone one. I thought the problem was the name of my home network. Libra Colour managed to connect to it without any issue.) |
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05-05-2024, 06:26 AM | #19 | |
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Oh don't forget to delete\forget all wifi connections in you Libra 2 before trying to connect. Last edited by Rid; 05-05-2024 at 06:30 AM. |
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05-05-2024, 10:34 AM | #20 |
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You don't have to forget anything. The simple solution is to make guest accounts in the router so you can make a different SSID/PW for each band.
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05-05-2024, 12:08 PM | #21 | |
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05-05-2024, 02:16 PM | #22 |
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05-05-2024, 07:05 PM | #23 |
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Thank you. That did the trick. When you first login, you get the warning that you see at the top of the screenshot. Since I’m finally in, I’m going to look into the Wi-Fi card issue first before worrying about the warning.
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05-05-2024, 07:24 PM | #24 | |
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According to comments in that article from 2014, iwlist is considered old and has been replaced with iw, which is not installed on the Kobo. I’ll put a pin in that one for now, but you can clearly see that I’ve connected at 5 GHz. The question is, what did I do to fix it? All I did was reboot a few times as I removed nickelmenu, and then I added nm back. I also did a database repair. None of those are related to Wi-Fi. Initially, I blamed the correlation of sluggish and forgetful Wi-Fi troubles to nm because the problems went away when I removed nm. I also had troubles with the Libra Colour intermittently not mounting on my iMac. That has also cleared up. Perhaps the several cold power cycles that I did repaired whatever issue was at fault. I appreciate everybody’s detailed feedback, as well as your willingness to educate me on new aspects of Linux without being snide. I wish I could definitively point to what I did to fix this issue to be of use for others who come upon this thread. If you have any questions for me, I’ll try to answer them. |
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05-05-2024, 07:36 PM | #25 |
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Interesting! I wonder why the channel list does not contain any 5 GHz entries. If you're really connected at 5 GHz, you'd think that there would be a 5 GHz channel in the list. Are you running both 2.4 and 5 GHz, or did you disable 2.4 GHz for testing purposes?
As far as commands go, Kobo uses BusyBox, so you're limited to the commands it supports, unlike with a full Linux distro. Thankfully, at least iwlist is available for diagnosing this. |
05-05-2024, 07:58 PM | #26 | |
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Now that I provided the information you originally suggested that I look for, I turned my attention to my Kobo Elipsa to see if I could login via telnet. I had recently logged back into my main account on it after using my Japanese account, so dev mode had not been reenabled yet. The nm installation had persisted between accounts, however. 1) Attempting to telnet into the Elipsa with neither dev mode nor telnet through nm enabled failed, as expected. 2) Turning dev mode on did not allow me to telnet into the Elipsa. As far as I know, this has always been the case for me. That’s why I looked into nm in the first place years ago. I am running firmware 4.38.21908 3) Enabling telnet via nm allowed me to successfully telnet into the Elipsa Then for giggles, I enabled sideloaded mode. After successfully entering that mode, and with devmode enabled, I still could not telnet unless I enabled telnet via nm. I don’t have a Kobo with the earlier firmware installed on it, and I have saturated on this particular problem, so I’m unlikely to downgrade my Elipsa’s firmware to compare. at least not today. I hope my descriptions were thorough enough for you to follow along. Now, to get this back on topic, here are the iwconfig & iwlist results for my Elipsa. Notice the full list of channels compared to the Libra Colour’s results. I wonder if there is something here to point to this intermittent WiFi connectivity issue. Last edited by Cootey; 05-05-2024 at 08:01 PM. |
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05-05-2024, 08:14 PM | #29 |
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Kobo Libra Colour can't see 5GHz networks
I’m not sure what to say, Jon. They show up for me in Tapatalk and in a web browser. They are attached as I’ve been instructed to do instead of using Tapatalk to post pictures inline. Do you have an ad blocker running? I have a CSS ad blocker sheet that I use that often treats attached images as ads. I have to disable it in order to see them. |
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