Kolofonium is the new hack for La Fonera routers with 0.7.2 firmware loaded to enable SSH. It is described in detail at Stefan’s website.
The hack is really simple: All one must do is login to your La Fonera and change the nameserver (DNS) of your La Fonera to 88.198.165.155 and reboot. What this does is allow Stefan’s website to send the hack back to your router for you. Meaning you don’t really have to do a thing. After the router reboots you should be able to connect via SSH. This should work with other firmwares, too so please leave feedback. Please change the nameserver according to your ISP or network setup after the reboot.
Working on latest firmware release 0.7.1-2.
To enable just do the following:
- connect to web interface of la fonera via “My place”
- change the dns to 88.198.165.155
- reboot la fonera
- Download Putty and Connect via ssh access
- change the DNS entry once logged in to the one of your choice ( I suggest OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 )
If you are not familiar with OpenDNS i suggest you go to www.opendns.com I just added it to all my routers 
its very simple and saves time.
16 responses so far ↓
Elund // March 20, 2007 at 10:07 pm |
Probably a newbie question
I can’t change the DNS to 88.198.165.155 when I am connected to the web interface (192.168.10.1) of la fonera via “My place”.
Please, what do I miss?
dltv // March 26, 2007 at 6:38 am |
you connect wirelessly and its under the setup options to change the DNS
Pedro // April 10, 2007 at 7:53 pm |
in the 3rd step when you say reboot the fonera what do you mean by that?
Power off followed by power on again?
Thanks in advance
slv0r // May 25, 2007 at 5:49 pm |
ok so i got ssh access can i upload dd-wrt firmware??
dltv // May 25, 2007 at 6:04 pm |
Yes you can. just have to boot into it
slv0r // May 25, 2007 at 8:38 pm |
well i like how it hacks it remotely but it doesn’t look like it keeps ssh enable and auto update disabled.
http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/250/1/
so i followed everything upto ip_address -l 192.168.1.254/24 -h 192.168.1.166
fis init
load -r -v -b 0×80041000 root.fs
fis create -b 0×80041000 -f 0xA8030000 -l 0×002C0000 -e 0×00000000 rootfs
load -r -v -b 0×80041000 vmlinux.bin.l7
fis create -r 0×80041000 -e 0×80041000 -l 0×000E0000 vmlinux.bin.l7
fis create -f 0xA83D0000 -l 0×00010000 -n nvram
after i load root.fs and want to load it the fon never does anything i tryed 3 times and once left it for 20 mins
Minimalistic // May 27, 2007 at 12:20 pm |
Work perfect on my Fonera. It came with version 0.7.1-r3. And now it’s unlocked!
Thanks .
nigel // November 23, 2007 at 2:02 pm |
So is this working with 0.7.2r2?
letsko // November 28, 2007 at 3:48 am |
no, it will not work with 0.7.2-r2
J.Y. Zhang // December 26, 2007 at 5:02 pm |
I have a 0.7.2-r3 and it refuse to do any tricks. If any body know a way of reflashing it. Please let me know.
Ash // December 30, 2007 at 2:21 am |
i have a r3 and i am the same no ssh and minimalistic clames he has done a r3 i have read that you can do upto 5 but i dono if its true.
Beowulf // January 2, 2008 at 9:31 pm |
Has anyone found any information on how to do the hack on 0.7.2 r3? Please post if you have…Thanks.
dltv // January 3, 2008 at 1:12 am |
If i had a R3 i would post my results however i do not have access to a R3. Someone care to send me one?
Dr. Know // January 18, 2008 at 4:37 am |
I have an R3. All my internet is wireless though, so I was unable to successfully test the DNS hack above. (agreement with the neighbors).
I am able to use a serial cable borrowed from a friend, and that seems to be working though.
Dr. Know // January 18, 2008 at 4:38 am |
Sorry. I just typed in a junk website to submit the form, and it ended up pointing at a linkbait site. If someone could remove my link above or point it somewhere nicer, that’d be nice.
Giovanni // October 28, 2009 at 12:11 pm |
The DNS server 88.198.165.155 doesn’t respond
It’s Down, how can I hack my 2100 fonera?
I have telnet closed for redboot, so i don’t know what to do.