Gosh, this person must be working for D-Link

This is what people think when they see the NAS, network switch and DGL-4300. Like all consumers, I like to make sure that I spent my money on quality stuffs. After reading reviews, I feel that these equipments are good, hence I got it and blogged about it. Perhaps I should stop sharing the applications I have compiled and keep for my own use.

Gosh, this person must be working for Linksys

With the WRT54G in the category listing plus the fact that I got 2 equipment from the WRT54G family and spend time exploring OpenWRT packages on it doesn’t mean that I am working for Linksys.

Gosh, this person must be working for Nokia

I got the N80 and I just wish to share my findings.

This entry contains archives of firmwares specifically for Atheros devices. They have been compiled and mostly tested by me. Don’t hold me responsible if it breaks your device. Do take note that you would need to install the webif and configure the wireless (/etc/config/wireless).

Installation of webif (x-wrt) can be found here

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Have posted earlier regarding the FON recovery service I am offering. How do you send your FON router to me?

Upon reaching my place, it will be dissected and then flashed to the firmware requested and tested before sending back to you.

Accidentally bricked your FON router while flashing to 3rd party firmwares like DD-WRT or OpenWRT (Kamikaze)?

Can’t enable the dropbear (SSH daemon) on the FON router?

Don’t know the procedure to flash FON router to 3rd party firmwares?

Need help in flashing FON router back to its original firmware?

I might be able to help. Send the FON router to me for the above mentioned services and I will send back the FON router through postage as well.
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Configuring FON to connect to a WEP secured wireless network as a client is pretty much the same as configuring it to join a WPA network (see in trackbacks)

Follow only Step 2 of that entry and we just need to change the settings used for /etc/config/wireless The config would look like:

config wifi-device wifi0
option type atheros
config wifi-iface
option device wifi0
option mode sta
option ssid <SSID>
option encryption wep
option key <wep key>

Ensure that all your settings are done right before rebooting. Else you might lock yourself out of the router due to misconfigured network interfaces.

There are hundred and one stuffs to be done with the FON router! My current D-Link network camera (DCS-2120) wasn’t capable of connecting to my wireless network due to the constraints of DCS-2120 in accepting certain characters in my WPA key. I toyed with the settings in console mode (of DCS-2120) and failed to make it understand the WPA key, so I guess I would need to work around it.

To work around it, I configured FON to be the wireless bridge! The DCS-2120 would connect to the FON through the ethernet port and FON would connect to my network as a wireless client.

Configuring it is easy on OpenWRT (kamikaze).

Step 1
Ensure you have connectivity with the internet, ssh into FON router and install WPA-Supplicant if you are planning to connect to a WPA secured network.

root@OpenWrt:~# ipkg update
root@OpenWrt:~# ipkg install wpa-supplicant

Step 2

Next would be configuring the ethernet port to be the lan interface and the wan to be the wireless. Now my /etc/config/network looks like this. If you don’t wish to delete off any additional stuffs you have inside, you can comment them off by add a # at the start of the line.

config interface loopback
option ifname lo
option proto static
option ipaddr 127.0.0.1
option netmask 255.0.0.0

config interface lan
option ifname eth0
option proto static
option ipaddr 172.16.0.1
option netmask 255.255.255.0

config interface wan
option ifname ath0
option proto dhcp

The ethernet port would distribute Class B address and the FON router itself would be using the IP 172.16.0.1/24

Step 3

Next would be configuring the wireless to be in client mode. My /etc/config/wireless now looks like this

config wifi-device wifi0
option type atheros

config wifi-iface
option device wifi0
option mode sta

Configure the WPA settings. Create a new file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf (create the file wpa_supplicant.conf at /etc/). In this file, you would specify the SSID of the network to connect to as well as the passphrase for connecting to it.

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

network={
ssid=”<SSID>”
psk=”<passphrase>”
}

To get the wpa_supplicant to auto-run on startup. We would need to create a shell script.
Create the file /etc/init.d/wpa_start.sh (filename is wpa_start.sh and located at /etc/init.d/)

#!/bin/sh
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

Change the permission of the shell script to 755 and creating a symbolic link from /etc/rc.d/

root@OpenWrt:~# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/wpa_start.sh
root@OpenWrt:~# cd /etc/rc.d/
root@OpenWrt:/etc/rc.d# ln -s /etc/init.d/wpa_start.sh S90wpa_start

Reboot the device and FON is configured! Make sure all your settings are correct or you might be locking yourself out of FON due to misconfiguration of network interfaces!