Firmware Update

From FON Wiki Beta

The firmware is the set of software that operates your Fonera. Depending on your device it might be possible to update it and enjoy new features as well as the latest bug/security fixes.

Fonera and Fonera+

It is not advised to update the Fonera and the Fonera+ firmware unless you are told to do so by a FON technical support representative. For these two models updates are automatically performed remotely. If you brick or damage your device while manually upgrading it, you will not be granted any warranty or support services.

Fonera 2.0g and 2.0n GUI

The Fonera 2.0n and the Fonera 2.0g often benefit from firmware updates that add new features. You can update your Fonera 2.0 via WiFi (connected to the private signal), or over Ethernet:

• Download the tar.gz file from http://download.fonosfera.org/LATEST/
• Connect to your Fonera 2.0
• Browse to http://fonera or http://192.168.10.1
• If you connect for the first time the configuration wizard appears, skip it by clicking on Abort.
• Click on "Settings" then "Advanced"
• Login with the username admin and your password. The default is admin.
• Click on "Firmware Upgrade"
• Browse to the tar.gz file you downloaded, do not uncompress it.
• Click on "Upgrade" No matter what, do not disconnect power cable while updating, the process takes up to 30 minutes for Fonera 2.0g and around 6 minutes in the case of the Fonera 2.0n.
• When the process is completed your Fonera will reboot. You may check that all of your settings were correctly kept.

Fonera 2.0g and 2.0n CLI

• Flash a "developer" image directly via commandline using a secure telnet (SSH) connection
• Connect to Private WiFi signal or Computer Ethernet ports (black) where SSH is open.
  • Windows users : Get putty.exe and connect to 192.168.10.1 (Fonera 2's IP) with "ssh"
  • Other user (Linux or Mac OS X) :

$ ssh root@192.168.10.1

1. Login with the username root and your password. The default is admin.

• cd /tmp
• wget http://.....file.image, where the URL is the binary release. Note that your router must be connected to the internet.
  • if it's a .tar.gz then uncompress it with tar xzvf file.image.tar.gz

uci set registered.fonreg.dev=1
uci commit
tar cvzf /tmp/sysupgrade.tgz /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/dropbear /etc/samba/smbpasswd /etc/samba/secrets.tdb /etc/config/firewall /etc/config/upnpd /etc/config/umtsd /etc/config/registered /etc/config/gdata /etc/config/facebook /etc/config/flickr /etc/config/mountd /etc/config/fon /etc/config/ddns /etc/config/wizard /etc/pureftpd.pdb /etc/pureftpd.passwd /etc/config/luci_dlmanager /etc/config/twitter /etc/config/firewall
mtd -j /tmp/sysupgrade.tgz -r write fonera20n.img image > /dev/null 2>&1 

• Wait approx 20 minutes (Fonera 2.0g) or 5 minutes (Fonera 2.0n), the router will reboot automatically.

Troubleshooting

My Fonera is unusable or does not respond as expected

Most of the time it is just a matter of configuration. First try to restore the factory settings by pressing the reset button (while Fonera is ON) or from the dashboard (Settings >> System >> Factory default) and then configure again your Fonera.

Only in extreme cases like failed firmware updates you will have to use firmware restore method.