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Nov 20 18:41:10 <chmd> Hi, I am planning to buy a router very fast in a physical store, and I am wondering: is it possible to run a fon hotspot on a non-fonosfera device?
Nov 20 18:41:44 <chmd> for example, a very classic, very widely available WRT54G
Nov 20 18:42:42 <chmd> In case it is possible, do I _have_ to flash it with the fon software, or can I install a specific package on the top of openwrt?
Nov 20 18:44:25 <chmd> The thing is, I need a router very short term, so although a fonosfera would be preferable, I would go for another device if I can get it to work with fon
Nov 20 18:45:00 <chmd> plus, I would like to hack it a little bit to emit several networks, one of them being connected to a vpn
Nov 20 18:47:51 <chmd> oops s/fonosfera/fonera/
Nov 20 19:25:07 <blathijs> Hey chmd
Nov 20 19:26:07 <blathijs> That's not currently supported. There is a ticket about it, to enable the FON stack on top of OpenWRT, but I haven't investigated yet if it's at all possible and/or if Fon wants to support that
Nov 20 19:27:39 <chmd> blathijs: ok, then question number 2: is the fonera sufficiently hackable for me to run not only the classical 2 networks, but another one that I would connect for example to a VPN
Nov 20 19:27:43 <chmd> ?
Nov 20 19:27:52 <chmd> blathijs: or even to TOR
Nov 20 20:15:44 <blathijs> chmd: It's certainly possible, but you'll have to dig in deep because quite some of the networking and GUI scripts make assumptions about the network structure
Nov 20 20:16:44 <blathijs> Note that this is true for the 2.0 foneras, the SIMPL is significantly less hackable (it only has 2MB flash, so there is no shell, and it is not meant to be upgraded by the user)
Nov 20 20:45:53 <chmd> blathijs: thank you for the infos
Nov 20 20:47:51 <chmd> Then I think I'll go for some a WRT54G, and maybe buy a fonera device separately later
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