Compatibility List

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Important clarification: You can connect to FON Spots with any WiFi device with an HTML browser (as you have to login to authenticate yourself). If your WiFi device does not appear in this list, it does not mean that it is NOT compatible with FON. It only means that no one has confirmed it yet. If you have any device, and you can confirm it's compatibility, please add it to the list. If you have any tips & tricks concerning that device - this is the place for sharing them with others.

This page is intended to list devices that we have confirmed work with with FON products. Either because you can connect a Fonera to it, this is the case for modem or routers, or because you can connect to a FON Spot with it.

Contents 1 Phones & PDA 1.1 Android based 1.2 Linux based 1.3 Symbian based 1.4 Palm OS Based 1.5 Windows Mobile based 1.5.1 WM2002/2003 1.5.2 wm6 1.6 iPhone 2 Modem & Router 2.1 Adsl 2.2 Cablemodem 2.3 Broadband router 2.4 Switches 2.5 Hubs 3 Other Devices 3.1 Wireless Phones 3.1.1 Accton Skype phones 3.1.2 Panasonic 3.2 Mediaplayers 3.3 Gaming Consoles 3.4 Laptops 3.5 Picture Frames 3.6 Robots 4 Operating Systems 4.1 Windows 4.1.1 Windows 9x/ME 4.1.2 Windows XP 4.1.3 Windows Vista 4.1.4 Windows 2008 4.2 Linux/Unix 4.2.1 Ubuntu 4.2.1.1 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon 4.2.1.2 8.04 Hardy Heron 4.2.1.3 8.10 Intrepid Ibex 4.2.2 Gentoo 4.2.3 Debian 4.2.4 Haiku 4.3 Mac OSX 4.3.1 Leopard 4.4 Nintendo Wii 5 Wireless Cards 5.1 Sources to get nice wifi solutions 5.2 tested devices 5.2.1 USB 5.2.2 PCI 5.2.3 pcmcia 5.2.4 Onboard MoBo

Phones & PDA

Android based

• T-Mobile G1

Linux based

• Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100
• Nokia Tablet Pc N770,800,810 : (Turn off powersaving!)
• Archos 605

Symbian based

• Certain Nokia models
• Samsung Symbian smartphones

Palm OS Based

• Palm OS Garnet 5.4
• Palm Tx

Windows Mobile based

WM2002/2003

• HP Ipaq RX 3715 (only with WPA TKIP connecting to Myplace)
• HP Ipaq h5450 (only with open connection to public Fon_SSID)

wm6

• HTC Tytn2 (Turn off powersaving!)
• HTC Diamond
• HTC Artemis (P3300)
• HTC S620 / Sony Ericsson P1
• Simvalley XP-45 (WM6.1)
• Qtek 9600 / SPVM3100
• SPV M600
• PDA X500

iPhone

• iPhone & iPhone 3G

Modem & Router

Adsl

• ADSL Philips (Belgacom)
• ADSL Speedtouch 500 (Ethernet)
• Free's Freebox v4 B
• Livebox (provided by Orange in Spain)
• Netgear DG834G v2
• Siemens SpeedStream 4100

Cablemodem

• Cablemodem Motorola (Telenet)
• Cablemodem (Chello/UPC)
• Netgear CBVG834G (Numericable)

Broadband router

• Level-1 WBR
• SMC 7004BR
• Linksys WRT54G
• AVM Fritzbox Fon aka Eumex 300IP from Deutsche Telekom
• AVM Fritzbox 7170
• Lancom 1611+
• Thomson Speedtouch 546i v6

Switches

• Dlink

Hubs

Other Devices

Wireless Phones

Accton Skype phones

• Accton SkyFone VM1185T
  • Has been successfully tested by the FON community

• Belkin F1PP000GN-SK
  • Has been successfully tested by the FON community

• Edge-Core WM4201
  • Has been successfully tested by the FON community

• Netgear SPH101
  • Not compatible due to updates only allowed by Wifi and not USB (only recharging)

• SMC WSKP100
  • Compatible and 100% supported by FON

• Logitech LAN WSPH01WH
  • Not compatible due to updates only allowed by Wifi and not USB (only recharging)

Panasonic

• Panasonic KX-WP80

Mediaplayers

• Commodore Gravel In pocket (Comes with FON_AP wispr client support!)

• SansaConnect comes with FONspot support (Slacker framework)

• Archos 604/605/705 Wifi optional Browser plugin($$$), myplace WPA support

• Ipod Touch builtin browser, iFON connection manager, Myplace WPA support

• Sony Mylo

• REMARK : the Microsoft ZUNE only has WiFi capability to connect to other ZUNE players to share music. It's as of yet incapable to connect to the internet via an accesspoint

• Creative Labs X-FI Zen MyPlace WPA support

Gaming Consoles

• Playstation Portable (PSP)

• Nintendo DS

• Nintendo Wii

Laptops

• OLPC Laptop (with Sugar)
• Asus eeePC

Picture Frames

• Using Myplace default settings (WPA/TKIP)
  • eStarling
  • MomentoLive

Robots

• Using Myplace default settings (WPA/TKIP)
  • Spykee, The Spy Robot

Operating Systems

Windows

Windows 9x/ME

Windows XP

Windows Vista

• Windows Vista Home Premium

Windows 2008

Linux/Unix

• Connecting with MyPlace using Linux
  • Make sure you have a Linux distribution that allows WPA/TKIP encryption
  • Make sure you have a Wifi network card that supports WPA/TKIP encryption
• In the next example our Wifi pcmcia card is "ra0" but it can be something else on your linux!
• In the example below we have configured our Fonera to use WPA2!
  • by default the Fonera operates at WPA/TKIP

vi /etc/network/interfaces
allow-hotplug ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode managed
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPA2PSK
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid "MyPlace"
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=*********************                                                                         
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid "MyPlace"

• Test with "ping 192.168.10.1"

A better idea is to use WPA_Supplicant. See the Manual of your Distro for Installation and Configuration.

Ubuntu

• There is a known issue in some releases of Ubuntu where it can only detect networks on channel 1 & 11

To fix this you have to edit the following file:

/etc/modprobe.d/options 

• and add this line :

options mac80211 ieee80211_regdom=64 

• save & reboot

7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

8.04 Hardy Heron

8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Gentoo

See Gentoo Wiki for Configuration of WPA.

Debian

• Lenny Lenny/WPA

Haiku

* The successor of BeOS, haiku, has no problem connecting to FONspots

Mac OSX

Leopard

Nintendo Wii

Wireless Cards

Sources to get nice wifi solutions

• CDRwinkel
• Confero24

tested devices

USB

• RealtekRTL8187 : NOK : 100% signal with FON, but unable to connect (Report)
• Edimax 150Mbps nLite EW7711UTN (1T1R) : OK BUT AVOID : It hardly connects at Wifi-N speeds, can not connect to hotspots that are not in thesame room... it's small size has it's repercussions on it's antenna...no possibility to add a better antenna (unless soldering?) infosheet
• Zydas 1211B : OK : Recommended...works perfectly to connect to fonspots which are a few rooms away...The antenna can be replaced but is by default better than usb sticks that don't have any antenna...
• Belkin Wireless G rev2 : OK BUT AVOID : It works nice on a FONspot but we recommend max 1 wall inbetween and to be happy with a 1Mbps speed. The device gets very hot...but no issues in surfing the net 24/24h 7d/7d via a FONSPOT!

PCI

pcmcia

Onboard MoBo