> Dear all
>
> We are very happy to introduce the new fon development community
> program: the fonosfera.
>

> You all have demonstrated that the foneras are able to do much more than
> what they currently do. You, the development communities, have fixed
> many bugs, added features and improved the functioning of the fonera and
> so, we would like to give you the opportunity to keep doing this great
> work. This is why we have decided to launch our latest product, the
> fonera 2.0, under the umbrella of a new development framework, the
> fonosfera.
>
> The idea behind the fonosfera is to open a channel so all the

> development work the communities have been doing and will do in the
> future, can reach any fon user in a simple way. We want the communities
> to keep their autonomy and don’t want to merge them all into one. We
> know you already have your own members, your rules and your methodology:
> we don’t want to change that. Doing so, we expect you will be encouraged
> to work happier and more motivated in new developments. We will try to
> make things easy for you and give you all the credit for your work.
>
> As so, the fonosfera will be not much more than a space for gathering
> and sharing with other developers and offeri

ng your work to end users
> all around the world. It will be a framework where you will find
> development and community tools such as svn, trac, forums, mailing list,
> wiki etc. This is something we would like to define with you all. In
> order to do so, you have selected 1 member of each of your communities
> to act as a contact point. These people will have direct contact with
> the fon team in charge of the fonosfera project. They will receive our
> notifications and will be in charge of giving us the impressions,
> decisions, comments and feedback of their corresponding communities.

>
> Currently, we are setting up the source code of the fonera 2.0 which
> basically consist on the source of the fonera+ (so you can already work
> with it) plus some additional parts that are very interesting:
>
> * NTFS-3g driver: this driver was available long ago for but it
> didn’t work for big endian mips devices (as the fonera is). We
> sponsored the porting and testing of it. It

is already available
> to download at the official page, but we will also include it in
> the source tree we will provide you.
> * Some controls for hard drives in the web interface. We have done a
> reduced web tool to manage the hard drive from webif.
> * HSDPA connectivity scripts (still under development)
> * New wifi driver binary: it’s still under testing but seems to be
> much better.
> * And more
>
> Our goal is to make this new device a success. Because this will mean
> that many more foneras will be available for connection around the
> world. We want the fonera to be a useful device at home so they are
> online 24h a day. This will improve the quality and size of the fon network.
>
> To achieve this, we have set

up a development flowchart. It basically

> defines how things should be done to get the most efficient, secure and
> flexible development framework. There are some limitations that fon as a
> company has and sometimes you will have to understand that, but we don’t
> think they will have much impact on the project.
>
> The summary for this development rules is basically:
>
> * you will have 100% freedom to develop what you want to
> * all packages/development eligible to be *official* fonosfera
> packages, will have to be tested in a trustful way by the community
> * fon will try to make all packages official, as long as they don’t
> go against our interests or potentially harm the users (owners or
> visitors) or have legal issues
> * the packages should be organ

ized so that there are no conflicts
> between them and even less with fon’s minimal functionalities
>
> This is just a list summarizing the conditio

ns, but you can see they are
> more than reasonable. For more detail, please wait until we have
> contacted with your representatives. They will explain all the project
> to you and will of course accept your suggestions and hand them to us.
>
> You will soon receive your corresponding fonera 2.0 if you didn’t yet.
> We hope you will enjoy using it and working on it. You have full access
> to it and of course, we are eager to help you.
>
> The devices you received do not have the latest firmware, because they
> were produced about 6 months ago. So you will probably need to reflash
> them with the latest firmware or one of your own.

The source code we

> will provide you will be newer, but soon, we expect to merge with the
> latest OpenWrt trunk, and this will be the base for the future fonera
> 2.0, when it reaches the market.
>
> So, this is it. We are so happy that we finally took the step forward
> and we expect you will like this new fon-era. You will hear from us very
> soon again.
>

> Best,
>
> The firmware team and the fonosfera team at FON
>
>

> P.D.: find attached the logo of the fonosfera, both for black and white

> backgrounds (either can be used on coloured backgrounds)

Apprendo da una segnalazione del buon Steven Leeman pare che qualcuno sia riuscito a installare Oswave su due Fonera, un “firmware” davvero interessante.

Quali i benefici? Vi bastano 88 canali wifi tra i 2,3 e i 2,7 Ghz e un bridge wireless sui 2,7 Ghz?

Ah, quasi dimenticavo. Qualcuno ha chiesto a Martin Varsawsky:

1. Posted by A.Faith - April 3, 2008 3:23 pm - #

   I was wondering, if you are promoting all those FON hacks, why don’t you release a development firmware of Fonera, that could allow you to modify your fonera without disturbing it’s original functions. after all, it could help a lot the FON community.

2. Posted by Martin Varsavsky - April 3, 2008 8:55 pm - #

   A. Faith

   In the next 90 days we will!

Il piccolo eeepc mi ha lasciato. O, meglio, l’ho lasciato nelle mani di Surreale e la Jfamily affinché ne scaturisse una recensione al femminile.

Già, perché come per ogni oggetto Geek o Tech, si trovano parecchie impressioni al maschile, al limite nerd, ma poche al femminile.

Quindi, all’occhio.

Per quanto riguarda questo blog, chiudiamo, per ora, l’argomento, con qualche benchmark. In realtà, ne ho compiuti 3. Uno con l’eeepc “liscio”, con Xubuntu e in condizioni di utilizzo per me normali, Firefox aperto, Pidgin e Skype aperti, le altre due nelle medesime condizioni, ma con un overcklock via sistema operativo e uno via bios.

Ecco i risultati dei benchmark compiuti con Geekbench 2.0.10 build 347. Per esteso metto solo alcuni dati salienti, per i dettagli, scaricate pure i file in allegato a questo post:

Eeepc standard:

Score: 487
Elapsed time: 243.3

Eeepc OS overclock:

Score: 780
Elapsed time:132.1

Eeepc BIOS overclock:

Score: 790
Elapsed time:119.2

Ora qualche informazione sul disco ottenuta con hdparm:


/dev/sda:
geometry = 486/255/63, sectors = 7815024, start = 0

Eeepc standard

Eeepc OS overclock

Eeepc BIOS overclock

Eh, si, c’era da immaginarselo che prima o poi OpenWRT sarebbe arrivato sulla Fonera. Secondo quanto riportato in questo forum, è possibile scaricare una versione del firmware dal seguente link e installarla al posto del firmware originale fornito da FON.

scp files to fonera and execute cmd’s at console.reboot. have fun
mtd write works until now,only when kamikaze is installed!
writing on original firm will brick fonera!

Leggete bene il thread nel forum di dd-wrt prima di aggiornare il firmware: è sempre un’operazione rischiosa e soggetta a “bricking” ovvero a ridurre la vostra Fonera in un simpatico quanto inutile mattoncino bianco.

Ah, tanto che ci sono…buon Natale in ritardo a tutti e buon anno nuovo in anticipo a chiunque legga queste righe. E anche a chi non le legge.

[Via tech.am]