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Hacking the FON WiFi Router
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Cerberus Joined: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:59 pm Posts: 1513	Hacking the FON WiFi Router Hacking the La Fonera Inside the Fonera Fonera firmware flashing dd-wrt on the Fonera Fonera hardware LaFonera Software Universal-Repeater Accessing serial console on the Fon Upgrade your FON from 16MB to 32MB of ram Serial Cable Port Second-Antenna Controlling AC-Loads Logo Removal Replace LEDS Power From USB SD Card Mod Power Over Ethernet Robot Controller FON mp3 streaming router Last edited by Cerberus on Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:58 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:10 pm


Gerg Joined: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:46 am Posts: 487 Location: Vermont	Do you have to use the router for FON or can you just use it as a router? _________________
Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:41 pm


mastershake916 Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:00 pm Posts: 2227 Location: Sac town	SWEET! I was waiting for some sort of deal to come up.
Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:56 pm


goliathdrakken Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:27 pm Posts: 411 Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA	I bought the original Linksys back when FON started. I've been using it ever since, except i removed the FON firmware and put my own on it. Seeing as I can never pass up free gear I just ordered up one of these. I wonder how easy they will be to hack and but my own firmware on them. Does anyone know the specs of these routers they are giving away? _________________
Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:32 pm


mastershake916 Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:00 pm Posts: 2227 Location: Sac town	goliathdrakken wrote: I bought the original Linksys back when FON started. I've been using it ever since, except i removed the FON firmware and put my own on it. Seeing as I can never pass up free gear I just ordered up one of these. I wonder how easy they will be to hack and but my own firmware on them. Does anyone know the specs of these routers they are giving away? I think that they're fon specific.
Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:43 pm


DrNathan Site Admin Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:26 am Posts: 1138 Location: Chicago	mastershake916 wrote: I think that they're fon specific. Nope, there's hacking a plenty to be had. Google "Fonera Hacking" and there's a bunch of info about hacking it via the web interface (Fon patched the latest hack, but there will be more). There's also info about hacking it via the built-in serial interface. I dug up some stuff on simulating the "Fon home" heartbeat as well. I bookmarked the links at work, I'll post them up tomorrow. Oh yeah, got mine ordered too. Thanks Cerberus. I may just have to get one sent to work as well... _________________ Team Hack-a-day Chat Room The Dr's Office - My ever so slow to update blog
Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:21 pm


mastershake916 Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:00 pm Posts: 2227 Location: Sac town	Do they check if you register it? Because it may take me a while to get it set up.
Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:53 pm


snorkle256 Joined: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:17 pm Posts: 1520 Location: somewhereville, usa	It does not Look like I could really set it up anywhere, Comcast does not allow it. I am still trying to decided whether SBC does or not _________________ Powered By Feedburner "My snorkle! My snorkle! Judge won't like it if I don't have my snorkle! You PLANT it... Don't want baby snorkles."
Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:40 am


snorkle256 Joined: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:17 pm Posts: 1520 Location: somewhereville, usa	Well it looks like neither Comcast nor SBC(AT&T) allow such a thing but I may sneak it under with some QoS and a third NIC in my smoothwall _________________ Powered By Feedburner "My snorkle! My snorkle! Judge won't like it if I don't have my snorkle! You PLANT it... Don't want baby snorkles."
Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:45 am


PocketLnt Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:01 am Posts: 1617 Location: New Orleans, LA	Ordered and anxiously awaiting shipment. I don't even think I'll end up plugging it in without disabling the FON communications first. I'll be interested in seeing what kind of wireless router this thing really is and what (if any) third paty software (OpenWRT or DD-WRT) can be installed on it. _________________
Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:00 am


DrNathan Site Admin Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:26 am Posts: 1138 Location: Chicago	PocketLnt wrote: Ordered and anxiously awaiting shipment. I don't even think I'll end up plugging it in without disabling the FON communications first. I'll be interested in seeing what kind of wireless router this thing really is and what (if any) third paty software (OpenWRT or DD-WRT) can be installed on it. Plenty: http://stefans.datenbruch.de/lafonera/ http://jauzsi.hu/2006/10/13/inside-of-the-fonera http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/La_Fonera I plan on hacking away once I get mine. I'll provide full write-ups _________________ Team Hack-a-day Chat Room The Dr's Office - My ever so slow to update blog
Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:40 pm


goliathdrakken Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:27 pm Posts: 411 Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA	sweet, now that i know i can put dd-wrt on it i cant wait to get mine and hack away at it. _________________
Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:19 pm


PocketLnt Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:01 am Posts: 1617 Location: New Orleans, LA	Well I knew the original routers were full-on WRT54GL inksys routers with new firmware on them, but I'm still unsure as to the models pictured on the site and listed under the order form. They're definately not WRT54GLs so I'm curious if the current brand of *WRT firmware will work on them. _________________
Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:37 pm


bird603568 Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:16 pm Posts: 772	brainslayer is amazing. he has nothing better to do than write firmware and play in a techno band heres how to reflash it http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/La_Fonera_Flashing _________________ http://www.oddree.com \|\| http://deadfool.wordpress.com/ Last edited by bird603568 on Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:52 pm


BillytheImpaler Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:39 pm Posts: 4625 Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA	bird603568 wrote: brainslayer is amazing. he has nothing better to do than write firmware and play in a techno band Now all he has to do is get packet filtering working and I'll be a happy man. _________________ [img:468:100]http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4585/shinerbockbf4.gif[/img] (1.21 gigawatts) / (88 miles per hour) = 30757874 newtons
Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:57 pm


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