The Fonera 2.0 just became available in Europe (on April 21st) and is expected to arrive here in the US in May, making this the perfect time for taking a first look at the new 2.0 software.

I had gotten my hands on the La Fonera 2.0 beta hardware back in December 2008 and had deployed an OpenWrt 8.09 RC release soon there after, which was still on there. This meant that I needed to somehow reflash the router with the new loader and firmware before I could see what the new Software was all about.

Putting the original (or newer) firmware back on a Fonera FON 2.0

During booting, the FON 2200, waits at IP address 192.168.1.1 on port 9000, for a brief moment, to receive an interrupting Control-C. The process of how to get to the bootloader prompt is described in some detail over here: La Fonera 2.0 (FON 2202) Hacking, Cleaning House