[*] free FON routers

[DAN KEIZER]

I tried mine with my xp laptop and it associated just fine. 
BTW: Bill made reference to it being openwrt based -- they have a binary image that can be flashed onto existing linksys/buffalo compatible h/w ..

Here is wrt's entry for this device:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Fon/Fonera
I particularily liked the 9090 port option.

Here's a nice little snippet as to what it sends to the fon server:  http://stefans.datenbruch.de/lafonera/
and if you want to enable ssh without opening it up for the serial mod, you can use this:
http://blog.blase16.de/index.php?url=2006/11/28/Hacking-Fonera

Will be fun to check out later :-)

Dan.

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Walberg <sean at ertw.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 6:57 am
Subject: Re: [*] free FON routers

> I got mine yesterday. Works great except I can't associate with the
> private ssid!  Might be a problem with my laptop (win2k) so I'll try
> with WinXP tonight before digging further into it.
> 
> Sean
> 
> On 3/7/07, Dan & Michele <ve4drk at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Thanks for the good info tonight .... I decided to check out the fon
> > router i received ...
> > upon startup (without it being hooked up to an internet 
> connection), it
> > has firmware: 0.7.1 r2 with a dns entry pointing to 213.134.45.129
> > (ns01.fon.com)
> >
> > So, I checked things out and went through the config ...
> > it so happens that it does an automatic firmware upgrade when 
> one is
> > available ... I'm  now at revision 0.7.1 r2 and a new entry is 
> available> under the advanced menu: "port forwarding"
> >
> > So .. all is interesting, will have to do some more tests on it ...
> > haven't checked out it's ports yet, but it listens to 80 and 
> 8080 .. no
> > telnet nor ssh that i know of yet ..
> >
> > Dan.
> >
> > Bill Reid wrote:
> > > Further to my discussion of the FON social router.
> > > The invite a friend to get a free router has some caveats.
> > > I am only allowed to invite one friend. Canada is not in the 
> drop list
> > > so I picked USA. No idea if this is just an oversight or 
> intented. I
> > > sent Rob an invite. There is a suggestion that when he signs 
> up as a
> > > Fonero then I will be able to invite another.
> > > Thanks to Shawn and John for the presentations tonight. Another
> > > informative meeting.
> > >
> > >
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> 
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