One more short update about the Fonera 2.0n
Hi all,
We have successfully tested some of the fixes today (or so we think so) and have an image almost ready for user testing. We have selected a set of users that have been reporting FON bugs consistently and in a comprehensible way in the last months to us. Also, they have experienced most of the important bugs that have been reported, so are good candidates to represent most of the rest.
Those users will be helping us test the firmware in the field. If you are not in that list, please forgive us and be patient. More users means more feedback (better), we know, but also much more coordination work. So, please understand we wanted a kind of reduced and well selected set of testers.
We still are working on some fixes, so what they will test is not meant to be a pre-final firmware, but an advanced stage firmware, with some important fixes. We can advance there is no major changes, don’t expect a cool super-fancy firmware, but just what we considered the most critical bugs (wifi connectivity, fonspot, stability, some 3g dongles support…) fixed.
How long will they be testing? Well, that depends on how good we made our work till now. Hopefully one week approximately should do it. Meanwhile we will keep working on the still open bugs and hopefully have a ‘final-to-be’ firmware ready for them by next week. Let’s cross fingers!
These users are, of course, free to talk about their findings about this new firmware with the rest of the community. They can blog, post, twit, comment, share on IRC… whatever they want.
Stay tuned and thanks again for your patience and trust!!
March 9th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
If you were a little bit more realistic. Call this a beta not a pre-final.
But thanks for working on it again.
March 9th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
schunz: I am not sure what you mean… I don’t consider it neither a beta nor pre-final. Did I misunderstand what you mean or did you misread? I said it is *not* a pre-final: “We still are working on some fixes, so what they will test is not meant to be a pre-final firmware”
March 9th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Thanks for the support anyway!!
March 9th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
I noticed the updates today (9/3)…
I only just compiled svn1650 yesterday (with changes on 4/3)…
will do an svn co again tonight…
for those that like numbers “2.3.6.0 - rc4 v2 ”
or “svn 1654″
i’m curious about the wifi & 3g :-)
March 9th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
guys,
it’s great news …. but will you work on the fonera2G again?
mine is still useless …
March 9th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
checked out, compiling…
March 9th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
would it be possible publish a list of the newly supported dongles? maybe someone of the testers can “blog, post, twit, comment, share on IRC”
March 9th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
I’m building right now revision 1655 :-)
March 10th, 2010 at 2:26 am
Hi
i’m happy to see you guys are actually trying out the very latest changes by yourself!!
Thanks a lot
March 10th, 2010 at 8:17 am
I send it via tftpd but it doesn’t seem to “compute”?
it stays in “bridge”-mode…
Does tftpd automatically flashes the device? does it overwrite the existing config?
March 10th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
people interested to test out the new firmware :
http://chez.tinico.free.fr/fonera2n/
and do subscribe to the mailinglist or mail your progress/issues on boards.fon.com
March 10th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Hello Steven:
Sorry but… ¿which .img is the correct (1650 or 1655)?
Thanks for the link.
March 10th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Firmware not valid at update my fonera in both.
Sorry for my english.
March 10th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
@steven: tftp will not be enough to flash the fonera. Take a look at http://trac.fonosfera.org/fon-ng/wiki/sshflash
March 10th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Hi , i have a question, so how upgrade fonera with this files ?
Regwards
Nuno Rodrigues
March 10th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
The failsafe method is mentioned here : http://wiki.fon.com/wiki/Firmware_Restore
but at the moment I get a “timeout” when trying to “put” that restore image of 2.3.0 on the F2N;
I guess I have to file for an RMA…
it’s currently a dumb switch(?)
reset button nor failsafe work…
March 11th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Thank you steven. But how do i add folders from usb disk to the media server?
March 11th, 2010 at 8:14 am
don’t you see the folders of your usb stick on your Xbox360 or PS3 using the uShare instance?
March 11th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
i do have a noxon iradio, i can see “Fonera: 1″ then “mounts” and after that “empty”. Ithink i have to mount the usb disk. But it ist mounted.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
http://boards.fon.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7046&hilit=ushare
and
http://boards.fon.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=6711
are nice threads to follow!
March 12th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Hello,
Why you don’t add also the Romanian Providers on 3G dongle list? We have Vodafone, Orange, DigiNet Mobile, Cosmote.
Please take thi suggestion serios and add that providers on list, or if have somebody more details, tell me how to add on that list and after i will send to include on this firmware.
Thank you
March 13th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Could s1 provide a version of that firmware that is installable via a normal upload in the Fonera webinterface please? I can not upload that .img file
March 13th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
This lasts extremely incredibly! I want to test the new version finally, too
March 14th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Here is my build of svn revision 1655 - again with absolutely no warranty. I have added OpenVPN support (which works fine here). Unfortunately, the tgz file is not accepted by the web update page ( I did not find out why, yet), so you need to use the commandline stuff.
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/363267564/fonera20n-fon2360-svn1655-openvpn.tgz
March 15th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Where is WiFi-WAN Mode? I need it.
Thanks
March 16th, 2010 at 10:20 am
nice to see some progress at last. and the community is involved, too. :) good!
March 16th, 2010 at 10:27 am
irc channel and mailinglist between FON & Community is fairly empty… in the last 4 months… FON is very occupied with the delivery of 400.000 FON SIMPL and the PEEK FON
March 17th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Other time…
I love fonosfera if fonosfera tells me what is he doing!!
I need news once time at the week.
I can not get along without knowing anything!
This bewilders us all and makes us
lose patience besides getting
not trust anything in you!
Please more information!
Please more frequently!
I need you! And the Fonero community too!
Pd : I was a fan of fon!
I’m feeling very stupid!
March 18th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Do you have an idea now about the date of the release?
Personaly, I’m waiting the ticket 540 (http://trac.fonosfera.org/fon-ng/ticket/540) to be fixed. I’m using SIP via my Android phone and need to connect to my private signal with it to work properly. It’s my professional phone number so it’s very very important for me.
Please give me a date!!!
March 18th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Any news yet about the new firmware? ;-)
I have problems with my Fonera 2.0n and the Wi-Fi connection with my iPod touch / iPhone?
April 17th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
anything that makes the fon router actually usefull?
i have the thing for months by now and i got so angry that i wanted to review the thing and point out every bad aspect of it..like i do with everything.
but i told myself w8 until the new fw is out. so is it out yet?
May 21st, 2010 at 5:27 am
i can’t connect my evdo modem to fonera 2.0n…can you help me?