jprknight

Thought I would come back on this one and add airdrop-ng is also in included in backtrack 4 RC1.

I just had to come back and post. After leaving my Fon as not much more than a brick for a couple of weeks I can back to it and started the whole flash thing again. This time I was able to ping and use open tftp from Windows 7, whetheras previously it was a no show. Very strange. Anyway one thing is for sure. The serial port is pretty much essential for someone like me. :) Flash fon, f*ck with all manner of settings, flash fon... etc etc.

I think it was a lot to do with Windows 7 as well. I closed down my AV & Windows Firewall. Went through and stopped as many services as I could which I thought were relevant, but still the fon could not ping the tftp host. So it was a great relief when back track just worked. I have a new found respect for linux today :)

Hi all, So I order the cable as per Digininja's fon serial cable page and and hey presto redboot. Interestingly Open TFTP Server on Windows 7 gave me no end of pain. The built in TFTP within backtrack worked first time. Picture of my now working pl2303 custom made USB to Serial cable. Lesson learned, there are different serial cables out there. Play it say and go with DigiNinja's example. Then again I am probably the only person on this board stupid enough to try out a different cable in the first place. http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8560/im...01008261058.jpg Thanks to everyone for their help, I am now up and running, and sharing my internet to all my new friends. :) jprknight

Thanks for the info. Sorry I got stuck on the project page which did not include a download link. Thanks again, j

Hi all, I have been looking around for a place to get airdrop-ng and it seems there is none? Is this true or does someone have a link? Thanks, jprknight

Ok guys I have ordered one up. So hopefully by mid next week I should be seeing some redboot.

I know tell me about it. Ok I am going to order one of those puppies up. I thought it looks very much like the cable you have in your serial cable page.

Hey Sparda, Thanks for suggesting this, unfortunately I would not know where to begin with this process. I think my cable is completely wrong. jprknight

Hi Guys, I have put the positive on transmit and the ground on ground an I get a negative intication. Reversing the multimeter connectors and I get 5v. So it looks like the pl2303 cable I bought is not good for Fon work. I have found this on ebay: http://tinyurl.com/2epv52n is this the kind of cable anyone has used before, or should I go buy something else? Thanks, jprknight

Hi Emeryth - Yes I have checked the voltage on my ground cable from the fon connector to the connector which is plugged into my serial cable. Looks ok. The USB - Serial cable I have bought from ebay is here: http://tinyurl.com/2w5g267 Has anyone else been able to use one of these cables successfully? It is described as a USB to serial rs-232 db-9 adapter cable. It echoes back input when I connect Rx and Tx; at this point I am in doubt wether the cable is giving me proper ground. The only thing which makes me think it does is the fact I only get garbage characters when I connect it. Without the ground I get no output when the fon boots from putty connected into the com port.

Just fired up my Windows XP desktop and got the same results. I had thought perhaps Windows 7 was interupting the process even though I have tried running as administrator. hmm.

Tried out the various standard values I found, none of which made things better.

Yeah I just read on some random website garbage is most commonly caused by the wrong baud rate, perhaps the manufacturer has decided to change this? Is there a list of standard values to try out? hmm google.

I have just connected one cable from the Tx on the Fon to the Rx on the serial cable, along with the ground and I get garbage as in my previous post. If I power on without the ground or power on the ground shortly after powering up the fon I get nothing.