I was poking around the FON forums, it might just be my WPA doesn't work properly. There are some instructions on how to log in to the router's admin port and play with the encryption settings.<br><br>Sean<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">DAN KEIZER</b> <<a href="mailto:ve4drk@shaw.ca">ve4drk@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I tried mine with my xp laptop and it associated just fine.<br>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 ..<br><br>Here is wrt's entry for this device:
<br><a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Fon/Fonera">http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Fon/Fonera</a><br>I particularily liked the 9090 port option.<br><br>Here's a nice little snippet as to what it sends to the fon server:
<a href="http://stefans.datenbruch.de/lafonera/">http://stefans.datenbruch.de/lafonera/</a><br>and if you want to enable ssh without opening it up for the serial mod, you can use this:<br><a href="http://blog.blase16.de/index.php?url=2006/11/28/Hacking-Fonera">
http://blog.blase16.de/index.php?url=2006/11/28/Hacking-Fonera</a><br><br>Will be fun to check out later :-)<br><br>Dan.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Sean Walberg <<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com
</a>><br>Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 6:57 am<br>Subject: Re: [*] free FON routers<br><br>> I got mine yesterday. Works great except I can't associate with the<br>> private ssid! Might be a problem with my laptop (win2k) so I'll try
<br>> with WinXP tonight before digging further into it.<br>><br>> Sean<br>><br>> On 3/7/07, Dan & Michele <<a href="mailto:ve4drk@shaw.ca">ve4drk@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:<br>> > Thanks for the good info tonight .... I decided to check out the fon
<br>> > router i received ...<br>> > upon startup (without it being hooked up to an internet<br>> connection), it<br>> > has firmware: 0.7.1 r2 with a dns entry pointing to <a href="http://213.134.45.129">
213.134.45.129</a><br>> > (<a href="http://ns01.fon.com">ns01.fon.com</a>)<br>> ><br>> > So, I checked things out and went through the config ...<br>> > it so happens that it does an automatic firmware upgrade when
<br>> one is<br>> > available ... I'm now at revision 0.7.1 r2 and a new entry is<br>> available> under the advanced menu: "port forwarding"<br>> ><br>> > So .. all is interesting, will have to do some more tests on it ...
<br>> > haven't checked out it's ports yet, but it listens to 80 and<br>> 8080 .. no<br>> > telnet nor ssh that i know of yet ..<br>> ><br>> > Dan.<br>> ><br>> > Bill Reid wrote:
<br>> > > Further to my discussion of the FON social router.<br>> > > The invite a friend to get a free router has some caveats.<br>> > > I am only allowed to invite one friend. Canada is not in the
<br>> drop list<br>> > > so I picked USA. No idea if this is just an oversight or<br>> intented. I<br>> > > sent Rob an invite. There is a suggestion that when he signs<br>> up as a<br>> > > Fonero then I will be able to invite another.
<br>> > > Thanks to Shawn and John for the presentations tonight. Another<br>> > > informative meeting.<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>
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</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Sean Walberg <<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>> <a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/</a><br>><br><br></blockquote></div>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sean Walberg <<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>> <a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/</a>