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.
While we keep working on revamed 3G support for the next feature release, we
also found some small but important bugs or regressions. To make sure you have
the most stable firmware possible, we’ve collected the most important bugfixes
and put them in the 2.3.7.1: Paco Jr. release.
What changed?
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Here’s the (exhaustive) list of changes:
- Prevent a brute-force attack on the private wifi signal when WPS is
enabled.
- Make the “Media” share work again.
- Make file sharing on 2.0g work with Windows Vista and up without
having to change the LMCompatibilityLevel registry setting.
- Update the Twitter to the most recent Twitter API.
Overall, we recommend all users to install this update.
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/2.3.7.1_PacoJr/FON2202_2.3.7.1.tgz
- Web upgrade tarball for 2.0n (FON2303)
http://download.fonosfera.org/2.3.7.1_PacoJr/FON2303_2.3.7.1.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 PacoJr directory on the download server:
http://download.fonosfera.org/2.3.7.1_PacoJr/
If the upgrade somehow fails and you need to recover, the FAQ section
has recovery instructions:
https://fon.zendesk.com/entries/21439902-firmware-restore
Have fun!
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