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Sunday, November 12, 2006

La Fonera on a Mac

My La Fonera is neato. But there were a few critical details left out of the install docs for us Mac Users.

• Everything more advanced than 'plug it in' references the User Manual on the CD. The CD is useless. It's got no files on it other than the Quick Install Guide (QIG.pdf) that you already have in printed form. To find the user manual, go here: FON: and click on: "Activate it when it arrives. More" It will launch a flash app that lets you download the user manual. Or you can click here: http://www.fon.com/manuals/M2100_1_01.pdf
  
  
• Default WPA settings don't work on a MacBook. You must log onto the router's admin console and change this. Plug the router into your mac via the included ethernet cable. Surf to http://192.168.10.1 in your web browser. Log in. The user is 'root' and the password is the WPA key for the private SSID/MySpaces. If you just opened it, it should be the S/N on the bottom of the device.
  
  Now clik on 'Private WiFi' and change the Authentication from 'WPA/WPA2-Mixed' to 'WPA2'.
  

Your MacBook will now connect. I assume this is not just a MacBook thing, but a Mac thing. Why wouldn't they document this? It's a huge pain for a Mac user trying to figure it out. Hopefully google searches will find this and other Mac users will learn from my efforts.

P.S. Works great now!

# posted by Nathan : 11/12/2006 01:08:00 PM

Comments:

Thanks for writing this up - I followed your instructions to get my La Fonera working on our MacBook. Oddly enough, the same problem didn't arise on my G4 Powerbook. I've written more about it here.

# posted by  ryano : 2:45 AM

 

Hi,

thank you very much, you saved me a lot of trouble. I also searched the site fon.com for a users manual, but had no success. Why don't they link it in the downloads section?

Never mind - now everything is green and running!

Regards,
Ingo

# posted by  Ingo : 2:47 PM

 

Hi,

my default settings are:

username: admin
password: admin

best regards

Florian

# posted by  flo79 : 8:06 AM

 

yeah, mine was admin/admin too - thanks florian and thanks for this post - int the web brilliant

# posted by  timbee : 10:08 AM

 

Thank you for this! Worked like a charm. Just needed to reboot the router after changing the settings.

# posted by  danial : 7:00 PM

 

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