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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Ok, well I would try:

      hint.uart.0.at="0"
      hint.uart.1.at="0"
      

      But setting it disabled there is probably just as good. There is probably some resource conflict caused by the serial ports on the device for some reason.

      Steve

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        cgi2099 @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10

        Yes these work for first boot if you interrupt no problem, they just don't persist without commenting out the above lines and those don't persist through updates/upgrades.

        Just a pain because this is setup in a closet without a keyboard and monitor, so there is no way to update/upgrade without taking it out of the closet etc...

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Right which is why you need to put them in /boot/loader.conf.local which is maintained across an upgrade.

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            cgi2099 @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10

            Ohhh okay, took me a while to get there lol

            So just add:

            hint.uart.0.disabled="1"
            hint.uart.1.disabled="1"
            

            to the loader.conf.local and all should be good?

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              You'll have to test to know if that works. Be sure to have console access in case it doesn't boot! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                cgi2099 @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10

                I will give it a shot this evening

                Thank you so much :)

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                  cgi2099 @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10
                  This did work!

                  Thank you so much :)

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Great to hear. ๐Ÿ‘

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                      A Former User @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10 said in boot/device.hints:

                      Right which is why you need to put them in /boot/loader.conf.local which is maintained across an upgrade.

                      Would you please so friendly and take a minute on top to this file called /boot/loader.conf.local please.

                      If I write something in, like the thread opener his line,
                      and I have several different line to put in for several things
                      and I want comment this line for what they are standing,
                      how to do this without problems? as an example:

                      set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                      hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                      hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                      hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                      
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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        The octothorpe # indicates a comment so you could do:

                        # CPU Power and Frequency settings
                        set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                        hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                        hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                        hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                        
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                          A Former User @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10
                          Thank you!

                          Here is none active and;

                          # set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                          #hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                          #hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                          #hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                          

                          here are all active, is this rigt?

                          # set CPU Frequent high up to 1400 MHz
                          hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
                          hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
                          hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1
                          

                          I will try out this for my new installation on CP Engines APU to tune the CPU is able going something between
                          1000Mhz and 1400Mhz against default 600Mhz to 1000Mhz.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            That's correct.

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                              A Former User @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10

                              Thank you very much for that information.

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