I'm sure most of you have heard of FON, referred to as "the largest Wi-Fi community in the world" by their official site.
It's an awesome idea; that you share a little of your Internet with others for, in turn, the ability to use any other FON based hotspot.
https://www.fon.com/en/info/whatsFon
This firmware is commonly being used on other Linux routers. I'm curious, is anyone here looking to run FON firmware on their NETGEAR open source router? Anybody working on porting it over?
We'd love to hear about it, as we may just have some exclusive opportunities for programmers out there to get involved...
it would be best to port Fon-NG which uses the latest Luci Openwrt and adds a nice looking Plugin system.... call it an "openwrt App Store" :-)
svn co https://svn.fonosfera.org/fon-ng
The netgear doesn't have a usb port I guess?
the FON-NG also runs perfectly on it's Fonera+ counterpart (1 wan, 1 lan, no usb)
but it hasn't yet been tested on a broadcom chipset like the Netgear
Hells, Yeah. If someone makes a fully-functional Fon firmware build that runs on many different routers, then maybe we can get Fon to go back to being a wifi company instead of a merchandiser.
elfonblog dot fondoo dot com
First of all, hello to everybody in the myopenrouter community.
I know that this is a relatively old post, but i would like to see the fon firmware ported to the WNR3500L.
I'm also interested in seeing fon capable firmware running on more hardware
one can get access to the svn.fonosfera.org and get "netgear" destination added to it?
I would like to have fon firmware on the WNR3500L. thanks.
+1 for the 3500L
@Roberto - this has been a common request on the forums, and sadly nobody that I know of has built this firmware for the WNR3500L... yet. I am by no means a Linux or open source router "expert" myself - although I know enough to get my hands dirty, I couldn't port the fimware on my own by any means!
Can only be ported by someone of Netgear...
As only these people have been porting eg Openwrt or DD-Wrt or Tomato... and not the developers of Dd-wrt/tomato/...
eg there are netgear specific "non opensource" stuff that they can't compile
the howto build of fon-ng is here : http://trac.fonosfera.org/fon-ng/wiki/build
but "make menuconfig" will only yield to destinations ... it's upto the netgear people to add a "netgear" destination with it's propertiery hardware (network/wifi)
@skynetbbs,
you are completely wrong here, netgear asus and others use an sdk from broadcom.
This sdk contains a proprietary module + sources for a wrapper module that can be build for the specific kernel. Exactly the same sdk is used by dd-wrt tomato etc.
I haven't looked at the fon sources, but I doubt that they have the need to change code inside the wireless driver.
please do take a look and combine the 2...
imho you will only have to find out the links to the "broadcom" network names...
instead of atheros (ath0/1) and Ralink (ra0/1) they will become something else (broadcom) specific?