FON3 means upgrade and FON4 means totally new flash. The "512" is the size in bytes of the certificate and the rest is the flash. That script only reads the type of flash in order to upgrade the fonera.
Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Michigan, USA
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject:
Well I thought I had something with the FON3/FON4 stuff. I guess I was wrong. (knew it couldn't be that easy)
After installing the ff-fonera-pack_0.2-1_mips.ipk referenced earlier in the postings I ran into major problems and had to hard reset the device. Now after this hard reset, I am unable to get it working the way I had it. Does anyone know how to remove the connection check I will search for how to disable the phone home on the device, I keep getting redirected to the troubleshooting page, and was wondering if anyone had a link (im on dialup and its painfully slow).
Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Michigan, USA
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject:
Well I thought I had something with the FON3/FON4 stuff. I guess I was wrong. (knew it couldn't be that easy)
After installing the ff-fonera-pack_0.2-1_mips.ipk referenced earlier in the postings I ran into major problems and had to hard reset the device. Now after this hard reset, I am unable to get it working the way I had it. Does anyone know how to remove the connection check I will search for how to disable the phone home on the device, I keep getting redirected to the troubleshooting page, and was wondering if anyone had a link (im on dialup and its painfully slow).
Is there a way to extend my wireless range with my fonera, connected over wifi to Netgear DG834GT? It don't have WDS. So how can I bridge the two wlan? Sorry my bad english
I just found out the wlan bridging script allows wpa (not sure if it allows wpa2) but to make my fonera work as an extension of my wireless network, I must use the same wpa password, right? The problem is that I have a wpa password in hex format and the fonera requires a pasphrase in ascii format. Is there a way to directly insert the hex in some configuration file?
I just found out the wlan bridging script allows wpa (not sure if it allows wpa2) but to make my fonera work as an extension of my wireless network, I must use the same wpa password, right? The problem is that I have a wpa password in hex format and the fonera requires a pasphrase in ascii format. Is there a way to directly insert the hex in some configuration file?
What file handles the creation of Ath0 and Ath1, and could allow one to disable one from being made at each reset? I have been having some fun playing around with this, but can't seem to figure out how to change the firmware for some of the settings regarding the AP creation. I want to disable the public wifi half.
Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Michigan, USA
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:45 am Post subject:
A quick and dirty hack for that is to disable a bunch of the startup scripts, which ones I do not know.
Or you could make an N99KillAth0 script that contains this text
Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Montpellier, FR
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:
t4thfavor wrote:
A quick and dirty hack for that is to disable a bunch of the startup scripts, which ones I do not know.
Or you could make an N99KillAth0 script that contains this text
Code:
wlanconfig ath0 destroy
Dirty, I know. But thats how I roll.
Sorry to seem dumb, but where do you make this script ?
Fon can see that your fonera doesn't have a public ssid anymore ?
Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Michigan, USA
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:47 am Post subject:
Im not sure what effect this will have on your fon subscription, I assumed that since you were already on this page that you were not going to comply with the Fon ToS.
The script would go in /etc/init.d which is where the os looks for things to do at boot time.
My advice is that if you are going to modify the AP in any way you should probably render it unusable to fon, since its kind of a security breach that you have a root shell in the first place.
Or something like that.
Welp, I played a bit too much, and killed the startup process. Stopped it from making Ath0 on startup, and now it gets stuck in the boot process before it grabs an IP on WAN. So no IP, no SSH, no more Fonera
And since I got this sucker free, its not even worth it to buy a TTL adapter to gain shell access through serial. Anyone want a non-booting fixable Fonera?
