fonosfera

Hi all,

Some of you might have noticed that Rudolph has been removed from the location it was made publicly available at. Many wonder why… well, Rudolph had a congenital illness: the FON Hotspot did not work and also, it registered a wrong MAC address on FON’s system.
Anyway, you can still compile the image from svn if you want to use the rest of the benefits.
We are working hard, even if it is Christmas and will try to release a new fixed RC asap.

Also, 2.3.5.0 will be available for the Fonera 2.0g too. A bit later than for the 2.0n, but it will come.

Thanks for understanding.

Hi all,

I would like to kindly remind you that “rudolph”, this is 2.3.5.0_rc2, is only a “release candidate”. We know it has bugs and we DO NOT recommend it for anyone that doesn’t like testing and reporting bugs.
We know it is a long waited firmware: it has very nice functionalities that many of you asked for (bridge, wlan client etc) but please be patient. There have been MAJOR changes on the firmware, including a completely new WiFi driver, so don’t expect it to work perfectly on the first run.

I am sure you all understand this is not an easy task. We are a small team and really appreciate your feedback and support, but also suffer your impatience and unhappiness. So please, try to be comprehensive and give usgood feedback so we can make Rudolph grow into a nice firmware from the little young reindeer it is now :)

Thanks a lot for your patience and understanding ;)

Ho, Ho, Ho, …..

its been nearly 3 months since the last update, but it was worth waiting.
Just intime for xmas, Santa has sent us a new update called Rudolph (2.3.5.0)

Rudolph

Santa gave Rudolph a lot of presents for us. The main ones are :
- adds new wifi driver (fixes 11n only, iphone, powersave,…)
- adds openvpn server
- adds upnp mediaAV in DEV-only image
- adds wifi-wan mode
- adds bridge mode
- adds wps support
- fixes cache problems that cause errors after 24 hours
- fixes ntp server pool, we now use openwrt pool
- qos was not enabled even if selected in webui due to a typo
- fixes column header in torrent app
- open torrent port and allow client to register as active on tracker
- disabe snr graph on fon_status page as it was not working as expected
- fixes wpa validation 8-63 chars with special chars are no supported
- small fix to SimpleForm template
- fixes “onsucess” logic of firewall app
- allow anonymous login for ftp (and make it configurable on webui
- onlined now only checks the fon server
- typo in italian translation, openvpn, qos pages
- fixes coova for NEC cell phones
- disable tcp_ecn in sysctl
- adds port allocation logic of switch when in bridge mode
- fixes lucid when ip changes
- fixes lan netmask
- fixes mac override for wan port
- fixes large file download in fonbrowser

This is RC2, a few translations are still missing but if everything goes well, we will release 2.3.5.0 final next week.

Enjoy !!

Developer image: http://download.fonosfera.org/Rudolph/20091210_FON2303_2.3.5.0_DEV-RC2.tgz

New release,

Fixes:

• The addon supports passwords with non-ascii characters. (ticket  477)
• Update the UI whenever a link is sent to the fonera.
• Update the UI whenever a download is manipulated from the download manager.
• Update the download manager window on the last item manipulated when dealing with multiple items

As usual, grab it from here or here.

Thanks,

javier

Hi

This new release brings multiple selection in the main download window. You can right click on various downloads and trigger an action on all selected downloads.

We hope you find this feature usefull. You can get it from the addon website and here.

Enjoy!

Hi

We have moved the firefox extension to addons.mozilla.org. We may continue to post updates here but basically we want to add it to the place it belongs.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/51665

New stuff:

• more bugfixes.
• new menu to access common tasks from the download window.

Enjoy ;-)

P.S: You can still grab it from here.

Hi there!

New release with small improvements:

- Firefox 3.6 support, in case you’re running the bleeding edge. This has been tested with beta 3.
- Bug fixes mainly discovered during 3.6 testing
- New: Quick add links feature.

If you right click on the statusbar a new window will pop-up.

The new window will show a textbox where you can add text urls and send them to the fonera.

That’s all,

Grab it from here.

Hi

Another small update to the Firefox addon. Since errors happen and you want to know about them we’ve included some UI updates to show the last error occurred in the course of your downloading activities.

When a file cannot be downloaded by the fonera, for instance you tried to send a megaupload/rapishare link without having an account configured or you tried to download a non-existing file the firefox addon will change the status icon to a warning message icon with a tooltip showing the error description (the best we can make of it ;).

You can right click on the status icon to clear the error and continue.

The error message will also appear on the download manager window as well as a link to the fonera dashboard to quick access the control panel in case you might want to investigate further the error. If not, you can click on the X button and the error message will dissapear.

That’s it. The plugin was heavily tested with the latest firmware of the Fonera as well as Firefox 3.5 but if you have any trouble using it, please report your bugs on the fonosfera tracker or Fon’s support forums including the firmware version of your Fonera as well as the Firefox version and operating system you are using. Remeber you can see all features of the addon in the addon wiki page.

Get it from here

Thanks,
Javier

Hi all,

New relase of the firefox addon. Since there’s been quite a few releases so far and the plugin seem stable enough we’re bumping the versioning number ;)

In this release we’ve tweaked the way the plugin connects to the fonera so it’s a bit more gentle. This will make the plugin behave better, specially when you’re using the plugin from the WAN which appears to be most of you. We’ve also fixed a bug in which some of the downloads weren’t cleared from the manager window when clear completed button was used. Another fix was to be more consistent between the fonera’s downloads status and transmission’s so both use the same wording, hence a more unified UI.

There’s a new feature for massive downloaders, the new list view:

In this view the download manager will show the list of downloads in a simplified list so you can have a better view of more downloads in the same window without the need to keep scrolling down. The start/pause/cancel actions are available when you right click on an item from the list as well as the information tooltips when you hover over a item from the list, so don’t worry there no loss of functionality. :)

Both the view and sorting options are now stored as user preferences so your choice will be preserved when you close your browser. You can toggle between the icon and list view by using the right hand side buttons in the toolbar of the downloader manager window.

The plugin was heavily tested with the latest firmware of the Fonera as well as Firefox 3.5 but if you have any trouble using it, please report your bugs on the fonosfera tracker or Fon’s support forums including the firmware version of your Fonera as well as the Firefox version and operating system you are using.

Get it here,
Javier

From the department of release often, release early, we have a new foneradownloader addon release.

This release brings small bugfixes introduced in the previous release and small features to the download manager window.

We’ve added some filtering options in case you want to distinguish from torrents and downloads easily.

We have also added a sorting option so you can track more easily the current state of all your downloads. Currently you can sort by paused, completed or in progress downloads. We hope you like this small update.

That’s all, bugs and issues belong to our support forums ;-)
Get it from here

Thanks,
Javier

UPDATE: Somehow I managed to upload a pre-release version of the plugin with a bug for Mac users. :( Please verify you’re using the correct xpi with this md5 checksum: 7c940083aebaf2d9b5a0df492277b5b3