This could be it people. I get people from all over coming to read my blog because of the former post and tutorial I did on hacking the La fonera, but a lot of people have come here in hopes of a new hack. Some have come looking for a R3 hack. It appears this wait is over.
* First this is not my hack or tutorial so I have no way to verify this info is 100% working. I would be willing to try this on someone elses router should someone sent it to me.
In the newest firmware FON had blocked the “internal” DNS that is used for downloading updates. This rendered the modification of the DNS useless or so they thought!
In order to preform the new hack you must have the following:
- You must have a Router
- You must be able to set the Routers IP to :213.134.45.129
- You must be able to set the Routers DNS to: 88.198.165.155
First make sure your router is not plugged into the internet. Next connect to the La Fonera (default MyPlace) and access http://192.168.10.1 /. Once logged in go to Advanced Options / Connect and insert 213.134.45.200 as IP, 255.255.255.0 as the subnet, 213.134.45.129 as the Gateway and DNS. Then save the La fonera and restart. It should revert the firmware back to 0.7.1 r1. *note some people said you may have to reboot the La Fonera a few times in order for this to work.
Now save the below cost as a HTML doc.
< HTML >
< head></head><body><center >
< form method=”post” action=”http://192.168.10.1/cgi-bin/webif/connection.sh” enctype=”multipart/form-data” >
< input name=”username” value=”$(/usr/sbin/iptables – INPUT 1 – p tcp –dport 22 – j ACCEPT && /etc/init.d/dropbear)” / >
< input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Submit” / >
</form >
</center></body></html >
Once you have executed this command you can loggin via SSH and follow the other tutorials on hacking the firmware.
Quick setup would be:
1. Set the non-fon router IP to 213.134.45.129
2. Set both primary and alternate DNS on non-fon router to 88.198.165.155
3. Plug Fon router into the non-fon router
4. Connect via the private wireless (MyPlace) to the Fon router
5. Navigate to 192.168.10.1
6. Click on Advanced Options / Connect. Select static IP and enter 213.134.45.200 as IP, as a mask 255.255.255.0, and 213.134.45.129 both as a gateway and as DNS.
7. Then push the reset button on the router or unplug the router and replug it in
8. Wait for the router to reboot(at least 3 minutes) and then wait another 5(Just in case)
9. Try to SSH into 192.168.10.1 via the wireless
10. If that does not work, do 7 to 9 over again
After I SSH’d into the router I disconnected the fon router from the non fon router and flashed the firmware.
16 responses so far ↓
hcaaman // January 10, 2008 at 10:04 am
wow… what a roundabout way to get to kolofonium
anonymous // January 10, 2008 at 11:54 pm
It’s fake.
Q // January 11, 2008 at 1:38 am
It doesn’t work here either
dltv // January 11, 2008 at 1:54 am
sorry guys.. wish i could test the validity of this but i cant.. sorry if it doesnt work if you get it to work let me know.
Jay // January 14, 2008 at 3:47 am
I was able to get this to work and another member was also on the DDWRT forums where I originally posted these steps. The numbered steps are a direct copy/paste from from my post here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=25354
I suggest posting there with issues/success
mark // January 26, 2008 at 4:55 pm
this definitely worked on my 7.2 r3. I was able to flash ddwrt on it easily.
Thanks so much for posting this.
NoRouter // January 27, 2008 at 12:50 am
Downgrading Fonera 0.7.2 r3 without an extra router.
I found a solution to use a pc as router, if you dont have an extra router you can set up for downgrading the fonera using the dns-injection trick.
What you need is:
PC with two network interfaces (wlan and regular nic worked fine for me)
I did the following:
1. Connect your pc to your fon router (through private wlan, default is called MyPlace) and access 192.168.10.1 using a web browser. Click on Advanced Options / Connect. Select static IP and enter 213.134.45.200 as IP, as a mask 255.255.255.0, and 213.134.45.129 both as a gateway and as DNS. Apply and close.
2. Connect the Fon to my PC with the cable included in the packaging (my nic has autosense and could connect straght away, you might need a crossed cable if your nic cant autodetect this.)
3. Connect to the wlan access point that is connected to the internet using your wlan in your pc. (if you have two nics, connect your computer using a cable to your internet connection)
4. Go to network connections and right click your nic that is connected to the internet. Go to properties. Click advanced and click “Allow other network users to connect to the internet through this computer’s internet connection”. Click General tab.
Go to TCP/IP click properties again. On alternate configuration
set Preferred DNS Server to 88.198.165.155.
5. Now set your other Nic (that is connected to the fon router) (it will be set to 192.168.0.1 by default) to 213.134.45.129
6. Just to make sure dns cache on your pc is cleared, Click Start-Run write CMD then press enter. in the prompt write ipconfig /flushdns then press enter.
7. Reboot your fonera. If you have access to another pc with wlan, try connecting to the MyPlace again and check status tab on the web interface on the router (this is what i did). Is it 7.1 r1? then you’ve been downgraded and can continue flashing. Otherwise try rebooting the fonera (make sure you are still sharing your internet connection on your pc while rebooting the fonera). Took me 3 tries before it flashed to the old version.
Thanx for the tutorial!
vibe666 // July 31, 2008 at 10:36 pm
i think that a lot of the people having problems with this might be those people with a limited understanding of what to do at the stage where you say “Now save the below cost as a HTML doc.” and supply some html code.
a lot of people wouldn’t know what to do with that and it is not explained very well at all.
from my (limited) understanding, what you are doing is fooling your fonera into thinking it is connecting to it’s regular update server when in fact it is connecting to a web server created by you to tell it to downgrade it’s firmware.
it connects to the IP addres sis thinks is it’s update server, when in fact it’s actually connecting to your router spoofing that IP address and then redirecting it’s ‘phone home’ signal to a webserver running on your PC with the above html file set as the homepage.
if this is he case then I think it would be a good idea to expand your guide for people who are unsure how to do this as not everyone wanting to re-flash their fonera will know how to do this.
a link to a simple webserver app and instructions on fowarding the port on your router etc. might go a long way to helping people understand the guide better.
as it is, i think I understand it and have had a go at getting all this working but i’ve still failed to downgrade my firmware so I’m obviously doing something wrong.
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Housepainter // August 1, 2008 at 12:25 am
I did hack my Fon today. I used google to find some info, and found this guide. And it worked. Now I use my Fon as a wireles bridge to my xbox.
Thanks!
vibe666 // August 1, 2008 at 11:57 pm
after doing some more investigation it looks like I’ve totally misunderstood what was happening and I was wrong about all the webserver stuff (where’s the delete post button when you need it!).
rather than what I thought was happening it seems to be basically the kolofonium hack but being a little bit cleverer in fooling the fonera into thinking it’s going to it’s legitimate update server when infact you’ve re-directed it to the kolofonium dns server instead.
i think my confusion came from thinking that the non-fon router needed to be disconnected from the net to avoid communicating with the outside world, wheras it’s just the fonera that needs to be disconnected until after it’s IP & DNS settings are changed, then it needs to be plugged into the non-fon router after that has been configured to point to the kolofonium server.
maybe that could be made clearer in your tutorial so others don’t make the same mistake as I did?
thanks again though, I think I’ll have it sorted in the morning, but it’s too late now and I’ll need to do a lot of messing with my home network to get it all working (and adsl2mue, 3x wrt54gs’s with WDS and 6 wifi clients and 3 wired ones) and I don’t want to mess it up. but once i have this figured out I can ditch the extra wrt’s and wired clients and go totally wifi and avoid having to rewire my whole house.
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vive666 // August 6, 2008 at 9:10 am
Got it all sorted thanks. A couple of things worth mentioning though. It did take a few of the 30 second resets before the router downgraded itself, so be patient. Also, after I got SSH enabled permanently I was not able to connect it to the net to access the needed downloads, so I had to return my main router to it’s default config to give the fonera net access again and after a little while it re-upgraded it’s firmware to 0.7.2 r3 BUT SSH was still enabled and this did not cause any issues at all and I was still able to re-flash the fonera with dd-wrt without problems.
modzsi // October 9, 2008 at 6:48 am
Since I have a BT router i could not change my ip address, but the NoRouter solution it worked like a charm! Thx
Edward Chong // October 14, 2008 at 3:47 am
Thanks for your information.
It is work for me. My La Fonera has been downgraded to 0.7.0 r5.
Thanks again!
Ricardo // December 12, 2008 at 9:31 pm
hi , anyone can confirm that it can be done without the extra router?
i only have one modem
Zoltan // January 14, 2009 at 8:32 am
Richardo, I will try it without another router. I have got a Linksys, but first I’ll use without it. Be patient, I’ll send some info about it.
Dimitris // February 4, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Zoltan, Is it works now or not because i try to make it work but neither two way can fix my fon it still has 0.7.2 r3
what I do wrong?
Please I was a little help