Hi Folks,
Paco is finally here, loaded with fixes, new features and improvements!
Just in time to have some holiday time to play with this new firmware.
What changed?
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Comparing this release with the previous stable, 2.3.6.2, here’s a summary of
the most important changes:
- 2.0g now supports bridge mode (but not wifi-bridge mode, due to
technical limitations).
- The “Orange page” with the “Your internet is misconfigured” message
was removed. It caused more problems than it solved, due to onlined
incorrectly detecting a broken connection when it was still working.
- Various networking and wifi fixes and improvements that can make the
network more stable and a bit faster in some circumstances.
- Wifi scans can now be performed from the web interface.
- Status display in the dashboard is improved.
- Large USB disks (>2TiB) are now supported.
- Multiple Dynamic DNS providers are supported now.
- Various software and drivers have been updated.
- OpenVPN was made a lot more configurable.
There are dozens and dozens of smaller changes, which are listed in
detail in the changelog:
http://download.fonosfera.org/2.3.7.0_Paco/Changelog.txt
So, how do I upgrade?
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Download the web upgrade tarball below, navigate to your Fonera’s
dashboard through “Settings” and then “System” and upload the tarball
there (under “Firmware update”). Note that you should not unpack the
file you download (and make sure your browser doesn’t automatically
unzip the file either, it should remain a .tgz file).
Note: On 2.0g, the firmware update might fail due to insufficient
memory. If you upload the firmware through the webinterface, but that
page keeps loading indefinitely (and you do not get the updating
countdown), you’re probably seeing this issue as well. As a workaround,
you can disable windows file sharing (“Settings” -> “Fileserver” ->
“Windows Network Shares”) and/or the public Fonspot (“Settings” ->
“FONSpot”) to free up some memory. This should allow the 2.0g to
successfully unpack the firmware and start flashing it.
In the coming weeks, we will also offer this firmware upgrade directly
from the dashboard, making the upgrade even easier, but this procedure
needs a bit of testing before we enable it.
This firmware is available for the following hardware. Be sure to pick
the version for your hardware. If you pick the wrong one, the firmware
update will silently bail out and no upgrade will happen (no error will
appear either).
- Web upgrade tarball for 2.0g (FON2202)
http://download.fonosfera.org/2.3.7.0_Paco/FON2202_2.3.7.0.tgz
- Web upgrade tarball for 2.0n (FON2303)
http://download.fonosfera.org/2.3.7.0_Paco/FON2303_2.3.7.0.tgz
The above links point to the end user’s versions of the firmware. For
different versions, like the developer’s version (which allows SSH
access and custom plugins) and the .img version (which can be installed
through SSH), you can look in the Paco directory on the download server:
http://download.fonosfera.org/2.3.7.0_Paco/
If the upgrade somehow fails and you need to recover, the FAQ section
has recovery instructions:
https://fon.zendesk.com/entries/21439902-firmware-restore
Special thanks go out to all of our users who have been testing the
testing releases and have been providing excellent feedback and even
contributed back some code and improvements!
Have fun!
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