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− | My brother gave me a FONERA router which I will make into a WLAN link station soon. Here are the important links I have collected:
| + | The Fonera is a fantastic platform because |
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− | == Flash it ==
| + | * it is cheap |
| + | * there are many routers on sale in Ebay |
| + | * power consumption is minimal |
| + | * it has two network interfaces: LAN / WLAN |
| + | * it has a GPIO interface |
| + | * there's a lot of information on the net |
| + | * LINUX / OpenWRT will run on it |
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− | * http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Fon/Fonera
| + | and since my brother just gave me one of these wonderful devices, I planned to '''pimp''' it a little bit: |
− | * http://sodoityourself.com/accessing-serial-console-on-the-fon
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− | * http://jauzsi.hu/2006/10/13/inside-of-the-fonera
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− | * http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/LaFonera_Hardware_Serial-Cable-Port
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− | * http://www.flickr.com/photos/mother/261623405/sizes/o/
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− | * http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/262.html
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− | * http://wiki.cuwin.net/index.php?title=Flashing_the_La_Fonera_with_OpenWRT Excellent intro on flashing the fonera
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− | * http://freethenet.scribblewiki.com/Merhaki Flashing a technically very related hardware
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− | * http://sots.refuzed.org/?p=129&language=de Very cool: Upgrade the fonera by some SD Card storage (German)
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− | I intend to use the FONERA router as remote little box to serve a WLAN link, but also to handle a packet radio Terminal Node Controller. Because it is a little hard to have software running on it, I want it to make its ttyS0 available over the network to my core box... '''ser2net''' seems an interesting way to go.
| + | * [[Turn a Fonera router into a link station]] |
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− | * http://www.nwlab.net/tutorials/ser2net/konsolenserver-linux.html | |
− | * http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=13161
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− | Hacking it is extremely simple. Just follow the instructions given [http://sodoityourself.com/accessing-serial-console-on-the-fon here] and connect a level shifter correctly and you will get access to the Redboot BIOS. The only little difficulty I ran into was to keep any kind of flow control switched off. If HW flow control should still be "on", you cannot write to the console and entering CTRL-C will not cause Redboot to come up.
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− | +PHY ID is 0022:5521
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− | Ethernet eth0: MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
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− | IP: 0.0.0.0/255.255.255.255, Gateway: 0.0.0.0
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− | Default server: 0.0.0.0
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− | RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM]
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− | Non-certified release, version v1.3.0 - built 16:57:58, Aug 7 2006
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− | Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc.
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− | Board: ap51
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− | RAM: 0x80000000-0x81000000, [0x80040450-0x80fe1000] available
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− | FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87f0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each.
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− | == Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
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− | == Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
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− | == Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
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− | ^C
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− | RedBoot> ^C
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− | RedBoot> ^C
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− | RedBoot>
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− | In order to flash the device, the following is very, very helpful. Eventually, it worked with my device:
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− | * http://wiki.cuwin.net/index.php?title=Flashing_the_La_Fonera_with_OpenWRT
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− | == Upgrade it ==
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− | Since that's done now, I'm planning further ugly things: I want to upgrade my Fonera with some Storage. I.e., install a MMC card and control it through the GPIO pins. Here are the necessary links to the documented knowledge:
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− | * http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Customizing/Hardware/MMC - general GPIO / MMC information
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− | * http://fghhgh.150m.com/ - a driver for GPIO
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− | * http://www.fonboard.de/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1945 - an extensive discussion with lots of info
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− | * http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Fonera_SD-Card_hack - great info, here for DD-WRT
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