Fon Flash

[Eric]

I'd like to officially announce the release of Fon Flash, a new program based on AP51 flash, for flashing La Fonera devices. It has been tested, and works with the original 2100/2200 devices, as well as the newer Fon+ and Fon2.0 models. Binaries and sources are now available in the download section.

Screenshot of Fon Flash:


The primary improvement in Fon Flash over AP51 flash is that it can flash several different types of firmware. While AP51 flash is suitable for flashing Gargoyle / OpenWrt, it cannot flash the latest official Fon NG firmware which requires three files to be flashed to the device, or the latest releases of DD-WRT (v24 and v24sp1) which require only one file. Fon Flash can flash all of these configurations.

Summary of improvements over AP51 Flash:

• 1) Can Flash Fon NG and DD-WRT as well as Gargoyle/OpenWrt
  2) Now works on Mac OS X as well as Windows and Linux
  3) New cross-platform GUI, works on all 3 platforms
  4) No longer consumes 80% of CPU resources, like AP51Flash

On Windows you will need to first install WinPcap. Vista users may also need to install MSVC++. I am currently working to recompile Fon Flash for Vista, to eliminate this latter dependency, but for now this is necessary for Vista Users.

Thanks go to the original author of Ap51 Flash, Sven Ola, and to Steven Leeman who has helped with testing and suggestions. Steven has also set up a site with instructions on how to flash original fonera firmware to any of the existing Fon models using Fon Flash.

[nice]

Thank you. I have been struggling with Kolofonium for the past few weeks. This works great.

[myeyre]

Great thanks!!

I'm restoring a Fon+ to original fw using FonFlash. This util makes flashing amazing easy.

Thanks again!!

[myeyre]

I'm here again to report my successful flashing

Cheers.

[enzo]

Does Fon Flash by any chance work also for other routers different from Foneras, such as the TP-Link TL-WR1043ND?

[enzo]

Never mind, I flashed it with the "Upgrade firmware" feature in the original software. But now I have a kernel version problem: I need to install some modules to handle USB storage (according to http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl- ... s=wr1043nd , besides kmod-usb2 which is already in place, kmod-usb-storage, kmod-fs-ext2 and e2fstools - which I guess was replaced by e2fsprogs), but the module packages at http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/1 ... /packages/ are for a kernel (2.6.32.10-1) older than the one in the Gargoyle image at http://www.gargoyle-router.com/download ... actory.bin (2.6.32.16-1):

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root@Gargoyle:~# opkg install kmod-usb-storage
Installing kmod-usb-storage (2.6.32.10-1) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/ar71xx/packages/kmod-usb-storage_2.6.32.10-1_ar71xx.ipk.
Not downgrading package kernel on root from 2.6.32.16-1 to 2.6.32.10-1.
Collected errors:
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-usb-storage.

Any suggestion?
Thanks,
Enzo