shift Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 When you reflash hasager onto your fon you loose your "free hotspot access" Is there a way to fake the heartbeat or just run a heartbeat script on some other old router to maintain your free hotspot access? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 If all you want is "Free Wifi" beacons then ssh to the fon and run iwconfig ath0 essid "Free Wifi" I think beaconing is on by default, if not you'd also need an iwpriv command to enable it. Try and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 The idea behind it is you share your wifi and others share with you. Could i just mimic the fon heartbeat so i can use other wifi for free when traveling? i still want to hack the fon with jasager (looks like a fun project) i just ordered one last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 I'm guessing heartbeat == beacon so just use the commands and you'll be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 the heartbeat is not the wireless beacon. The heartbeat it a signal sent back to FON headquarters letting them know that the fon is active (for mapping and account rights) making you an active contributing member fonera or an Alien that has to pay for service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 ok, in which case I haven't done anything with that. There is a ddwrt project for doing something like that though I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excid3 Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 ok, in which case I haven't done anything with that. There is a ddwrt project for doing something like that though I think. If you just unlock your fon and install Jasager on there it should work fine. Flashing a new firmware obviously will remove the callbacks to the fon community so you will be forced to work with the official fon firmware. It runs a special openwrt 7.09 so I see no reason why it would not work to run Jasager on it with the official firmware. Something like this would need to be done for the Fon+: http://www.fonboard.nl/wiki/HowTo_Fonerapl..._La_Fonera_Plus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Isnt Jausager a firmware ?so wont it overwrite the fon+ firmware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 That is the idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I was hoping that someone had been able to successfully work the fon callbacks into a ddwrt or open wrt. I have a wrt54gsv1 at home as my main router and would love to have fonnera network access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 I for the most part found out how to add heartbeat to any router, just need someone to wireshark the fon and see what its sending to where. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donito Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I for the most part found out how to add heartbeat to any router, just need someone to wireshark the fon and see what its sending to where. this link may give you a bit of information: http://hackaday.com/2006/07/01/fun-fon-hacking/ In the comments they discuss the heartbeat tying it to: http://download.fon.com/heartbeat.php?mac= The link is a bit outdated so YMMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
or4n9e Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 opkg install http://piranha.klashed.net/pub/2.0/package...0.6F-1_mips.ipk and you're all set. For your convenience heartbeat got released today with Piranha 2 alpha3. Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 Awesome, thank ya :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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