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6/27/09
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So you just bought a Fonrea and thought you were a Hacker… Now it wont Boot ? No Problem
Fon Serial Port Install
Warning: Applying these changes to your Fonera+ will void it of its warranty. FON does not support these modifications and will not be held responsible for their consequences. This should only be done by advanced users.
Well i got my new Fonrea 2200 (AKA Fon +) and me and my friends decided to put Jasager on the little guy well somewhere in the middle of that we bricked it. : ( In looking for a solution i found a couple of ways to unbrick the Fon, You can buy a USB Cable for Kyocera KX440 KX433 KX444 K4130 K404 K9 cut off the end and wire that up. Or make custom cable building some jumpers out of cdrom audio cable/ Power switch. When you are performing this i found that you have to power the device up with just Rx and Tx connected then after a second or two connect the ground to get it to work most of the time. You can tell when this needs to be done because when you try to start a serial connection you will see a bunch of garbage across the screen. So me and my friend’s decided to install a more permanent solution. Check the gallery to see how we did it.
Hi ryan,
nice hack what your friend and you did. I am on the same but i dont want to wait or to order that Kyocera-Cable. What i am interessted of is how that can work? Since the Fonera+ is on 3,3V logic and normal serial-connections are on 5V logic?
So you just plug in a normal serial-cable to your pc? nothing else no logic-ttl-changer and stuff like that?
greets from germany
eftex
Yes i did what i forget to but on the blog was that the adapter i was using has a rs232 to ttl converter built into it i purchased it at usbgear.com