Hi,
I have a ledger Nano and realized a few weeks ago that you cannot restore your wallet with a software wallet using your Ledger device’s 24 word list.
This is because Ledger uses a different algorithm to generate the root key from the entropy.
So I did some research and found this repo:
Some algoritms code reference
I then used the code to make a very simple and basic tool that just generates your private extended root key with ledger’s own 24 words.
You can then rebuild all your wallet using the cardano-address and cardano-cli tools.
Here is my repo. I hope it can be useful for some of you.
Recover the private extended root key of a cardano wallet generated by a Ledger device using it's own generated 24 word list
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You can also use cardano-signer to generate .skey and .vkey files from a Ledger mnemonic:https://github.com/gitmachtl/cardano-signer?tab=readme-ov-file#generate-a-keypair-from-hardware-wallet-mnemonics
Also, if you used the Ledger in single-address mode (meaning that there is only one payment key and one stake key per account), you can import the .skey files for both into Eternl:
Might be a bit easier than doing everything on the command line.
