What exactly is the module? The SFP port in the 2100 is fixed at 1G and does not provide interaction with the module inserted to the chipset. So there is almost no configuration, it works or it doesn't. Steve

I changed the heatsink compound and swapped the unit into production. It is sitting at 29-31deg now in my basement and is stable. I have left "Turbo" off, as I don't think it is needed or helpful on a passive cooled system. FYI - anyone with the same unit. the igb7 and igb6 are reversed, so it is igb0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 6

@admins Here's a good list of NICs and their OEM equivalents. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/list-of-nics-and-their-equivalent-oem-parts.20974/ i340 and i350 chipsets are relatively current and inexpensive.

@provels Well imho WiFi doesn't belong on a pfSense ... (well firewall) So now you're logging to the internal 500GB ?? I'm syslogging to a remote Linux Syslog server , always liked that best. You have a neat system now ... /Bingo

I've not tried to set any values. The default values work well for me on the APU.

@stephenw10 Yes.

Yeah, you don't need a serial port. A USB connected com device is built into the SG-1100. Just connect to it with a standard USB to USB micro cable and you should see the new virtual com port device detected. Steve

@xt_ntwrk said in Sierra Wireless MC8805/DW5570 not working: @ctrlzundo Thanks for the remark. I saw that in some datasheet before. What i was not 100% aware of is that most (if not all) providers in Germany killed already the UMTS frequencies... Do you have any other LTE or 5G card which you can recommend; which works fine with pfSense and is for mini-pci port? I am using a Sierra Wireless MC7710 here in Germany with T-Mobile

@ph0ton said in Improving power consumption on Nuc 11 pro: I have never come a across a machine in the past 15 years how had problems with C-states, unless it was related to instabilities in the BIOS / UEFI bios. I have now reactivate (because I cannot exclude that maybe something else has caused the shutdowns - at that time I made also some changes regarding the USB-Ports and the update from 2.5.2 -> 2.6.0) the setting: hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest=C3 (it sets automatic the dev.cpu.0/1.cx_lowest to C3) and I keep a eye on it and will give feedback if something happends ... Result: dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 30.82% 69.17% 0.00% last 637us dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 59.30% 13.53% 27.15% last 267us Interesting: dev.cpu.0 never go to C3 Edit 09.05.23: After rebooting the system dev.cpu.0 is going also to C3: dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 62.51% 7.06% 30.42% last 1250us Regards, fireodo

Do you see a crash report? Does it crash if you don't fit an expansion card? Nothing in those logs looks like a problem. Is it stable running some other OS? Steve

@lse4 Install the SPI.1A module on the SPI header of the apu2 system board. Please watch the orientation (white stripe). Then power on. The SPI module will override the on-board flash, which could be blank or corrupted. Boot tinyCore Linux or another OS from an USB stick. Then remove the SPI module while power is on, and reflash the BIOS, from the booted system (OS). Then all will be fine for you

Curiosity got the better of me there is nothing under the lable no cutouts for buttons at all

@mr-john-0 As today AES-NI and/or Intel Quick Assist will do that job integrated inside of the CPU, much better. At the photo shown above, you may try out to unmount the PCIe adapter from the PCIe card, if this is able to realize! You may stich in that adapter (if it is one) into a other PCIe card like a NIC to mount it back. It is not a guarantie but its worth to try it out.

@patch I have always been an optimist and it has served me well in the past. Besides 8860's are not all that common. I had to purchase mine in Canada. The 8860 is a terrific Firewall/VPNs! Plus they have 3 spare Sata ports and 2 spare mStata ports with one additional mSata already been used. I installed 3x Enterprise mSata SSDs in ZFS Raid in my 8860 to ensure extra redundancy etc. It's cheap insurance for a lot of peace of mind. Normal SSD's are not infallible, hence the upgrade to Enterprise and the ZFS Raid also provides extra data protection and much longer UP time if/when a SSD ever fails. Brad.

@patch Thanks, but I am keen to eliminate the provided Aussie Broadband modem (as it's not particularly reliable) and, if possible, would like an all-in-one solution (rat than a separate modem in bridge mode) for both elegance and also fewer devices to go wrong in the chain...so I am keen to know whether the Transcend module will do the job.

I have a serial GPS on cuau0 for NTP time keeping. What device? cuau0, cuau1... is serial and cuaU0, cuaU1,... is USB, where it is connected to? What chip set (ublox,...) Around 1 in 10 boots, I get no active peers on NTP status. Sometimes I have ~12 satellites in waiting chain and 5 till 8 in usage, but sometimes there is no connection. It is owed to the circumstance that the antenna (active) must be also good positioned to get a flavour connection and being able to reach many satellites. In the past I would reboot the firewall and in the majority of cases the GPS would come up functioning. You may be able to high up the delay time at the boot time too! This has gone on for over two years of using pfSense on the same appliance. Which hardware you are using? Today instead of rebooting, I ran cu from the command > line (cu -l cuau0 -s 4800) and got a response that there > was a stale lock on the port and got no data from the GPS. You may be able to use the console on two ways: console ntpq > enter > PE > enter cu -s 9600 -l /dev/cuaU1 or cu -s 9600 -l /dev/gps0 to see the output. Seems to be a bit of a possible race condition where a lock is not removed in a timely manner during shutdown or the reboot process. The delay time might be tzhe right answer in your case.

@cg50000p Available on Amazon now. 2.7 is fairly solid. I have no problems using it with i-225’s and would assume i-226’s are fine.

@charlesdevis My Dell Wyse 5070 consumes 8W per the TP-Link HS-300 power strip that it’s plugged into: [image: 1675089551249-f64a8b21-32d6-4ee8-9bb3-eb8efc047d00.jpeg] (screen shot is from my Sense device that reads power stats from the powerstrip) While my Asus RT-AC86U consumes 9W of power

@stephenw10 Probably the appliance I’d get if shopping for one. IF I had it to do over instead of a nice albeit older Dell i7 for free and then add the cost of several Intel i225 NIC’s, I’d do this appliance. The cost of the NIC’s about the same as this appliance. The new gen processor while not today’s i7 my guess is it outperforms the early gen i7 in the old Dell. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6J2ZKTM/?coliid=I2ZTQKSXOF5P6&colid=B016TSAJFGNR&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1

@stephenw10 I think you're right. As far as I can tell the update is for motherboards with the embedded i-225 chipset not the stand alone NIC's.