I bought a fonera+ router and now I'm wondering if I can flash it. The problem that I want to solve is that I need to use it as an access point disabling the routing mode. At my place I already have a wired network and so I need both wan and lan ports in order to put the AP between the router and one of the clients, I have to use the 2 ports of la FONERA+ as a switch. is it clear?
I just want to create a wireless access point that makes me connect to my old network and let me connect to the others pc on the old network.
can someone help me?
Topic: Fonera+, can I flash it??
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A simple search of fonera in this forum shows that yes, you probably can install OpenWRT on it, at least on a non + model. In fact, there seems to be so may results on it, that I suspect you may not be too proficient on the subject, in which case it may not be the best solution to be the first one to attempt it with a new model.
However, I suspect that you do not need to. If all you are trying to do is to extent your existing wired lan with an AP for simple wireless internet access, and sign in to FON, you probably only need to plug in the fonera WAN into one of your normal network ports, as if it is a client.
You certainly do not need to put it between an existing client and the network.
There may be some issues with PvP games because of the 'router-behind-a-router' setup, but WWW should work, as does eMail, and also your FON login and sharing should work. Any wireless client may not see your normal network clients.
If you want a real AP to your local net, you need to somehow login to the fonera device, disable its DHCP server, assign it a normal fixed IP, and connect the LAN port to your network. But then the FON stuff does not work, you just have an AP.
Mind you, I do not have a fonera myself, so I am kinda applying general router behavior rules to your fonera, but as it is a specialist device, it may have some unexpected behaviors.
(Last edited by cybermaus on 24 Aug 2007, 17:18)
cybermaus wrote:
A simple search of fonera in this forum shows that yes, you probably can install OpenWRT on it, at least on a non + model. In fact, there seems to be so may results on it, that I suspect you may not be too proficient on the subject, in which case it may not be the best solution to be the first one to attempt it with a new model.
However, I suspect that you do not need to. If all you are trying to do is to extent your existing wired lan with an AP for simple wireless internet access, and sign in to FON, you probably only need to plug in the fonera WAN into one of your normal network ports, as if it is a client.
You certainly do not need to put it between an existing client and the network.
There may be some issues with PvP games because of the 'router-behind-a-router' setup, but WWW should work, as does eMail, and also your FON login and sharing should work. Any wireless client may not see your normal network clients.
If you want a real AP to your local net, you need to somehow login to the fonera device, disable its DHCP server, assign it a normal fixed IP, and connect the LAN port to your network. But then the FON stuff does not work, you just have an AP.
Mind you, I do not have a fonera myself, so I am kinda applying general router behavior rules to your fonera, but as it is a specialist device, it may have some unexpected behaviors.
thank you, I used la fonera as an AP as you wrote, and as you wrote fon stuff doesn t work.
I hope that in the next future also fonera+ could be flashed easily.
Well, it is flash-able, in fact, it is simply listed as number 27 in the hardware table, had you tried searching a little bit, with a set of instructions.
But if you do put OpenWRT on it, it will no longer be a FON router...
(Last edited by cybermaus on 24 Aug 2007, 22:38)
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