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Then append this to the /opt/afterinit.sh script and set the wikiurl flag if it doesn't match your kiwix server. GOOS =linux GOARCH =arm GOARM = 5 go build -o redirector Import ( 'net/http' 'strings' 'flag' ) func main () ) For this reason I wrote a little server in Go that redirects search queries to corresponding Kiwix pages. The Kobo makes use of Wikipedia's wiki/Special:Search API to find an article for the selected text. Scp libnickel.so simply add this to your /etc/hosts file: Upload the new version of libnickel.so to the Kobo:

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Or alternatively if you don't want to do it manually you can just try applying this patch using bspatch:īspatch libnickel.so libnickel.so.patched wiki.patch It is important to replace the https part with http, as we don't want to worry about TLS. For that we simply change two hardcoded strings: All there is to do now is to make it use our local Kiwix server. With these patches the Firmware will allow the browser to open in Airplane mode. We additionally patch the call to showAirplaneModeDialog at 0x00cef818:Īnd make it instead jump to internetIsAccessible at 0x04ee1cc: The base address for all addresses mentioned here is 0x0 as opposed to Ghidra's default 0x100000.Īt 0x00cef7a6 in WirelessWorkflowManager::connectWireless we need to patch a jump that checks whether the device is connected to WiFi and make it an unconditional b instead: However it seems that Ghidra's ARM assembler is a bit buggy, so I used radare2 for patching. Note: In the screenshots you can see Ghidra, which I mainly used for reverse engineering because of its great decompiler. I will go through the process of reverse engineering it in this article and then provide a patch at the end that might or might not work depending on your firmware version. So we will need to patch this by reverse engineering libnickel.so. Patching the firmwareįor whatever reason, Kobo doesn't allow the browser to open if there is no WiFi available. You'll have to adjust the ZIM path if it doesn't match. Then after waiting a bit it will mount the previously created partition to /big, which you will have to create first with mkdir /big.Īfter sleeping for a bit again it starts the Kiwix server listening on port 4444. This will first start the loopback interface, which was disabled by default on my device. Sleep 2 /big /kiwix -tools_linux-armhf-3.1. To /etc/inittab and put this in /opt/afterinit.sh: This is where we will put the ZIM archive.ĭd if=/dev/old of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progressĮxtract kiwix-tools to /big and for convenience add ::sysinit :/bin /sh /opt /afterinit.sh

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You will also need to grab the latest version of kiwix-tools from the kiwix download page, which includes the kiwix-serve program that we will use to run our own local Wikipedia clone.Ĭopy the contents of the sd card to the new one using dd and create a new partition with the remaining space using fdisk, for example.

no indication means we have done our best to scrape everything.

'maxi' means everything except large media files like video/audio.

'nopic' means that most pictures have been removed.

'mini' means that only a subset of the text is available, probably the first section.

The naming scheme is explained in Kiwix's ZIM Readme: I used the English 'all nopic' version, which is 38GB as of writing this and will therefore require an SD-Card upgrade. You will need to download a Wikipedia ZIM-Archive of your choice from the corresponding page. Before doing anything make sure you have a backup. This article assumes that you have access to the Kobo's internal files, either through a root shell using SSH or Telnet or by taking out the SD Card and that you are using a Unix operating system. After a little research I found that a3nm did something similar in a blog post from 2013, which is a bit outdated now though.

As it turns out it is possible with a few hacks.

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So it should be possible to setup Kiwix with an offline copy of Wikipedia and use that instead. With an internet connection the default Kobo firmware allows you to do this by long-pressing and then selecting the Wikipedia icon. So it would be nice to be able to look up words or names of people mentioned in the book on Wikipedia. I often use my Kobo Clara HD where there is no WiFi available and the included offline dictionaries aren't always sufficient.

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