NOkIA ip330 works great

jzsjr

Any advice on booting to the console?

Jim

bweyr

Any advice on booting to the console?

Jim

HI you need a null modem serial cable. I got one at compusa about $15. you can get them cheaper online.

1.Connect the cable to you first serial port(com1 usually the top one if you have 2) on the back of your PC. You must make sure the serial port is enabbled in the bios of the PC

2. connect the other end of the null modem cable to the consule port(not the serial port) of the NOKIA (do not turn on yet)

3. On your PC open hyper terminal and create a new connection choose com1 and make sure of the following settings

Bits per second 9600

Data bits 8

Parity NONE

Stop bits 1

Flow control Hardware

Hit ok and you should see a blinking curser in the uper left hand corner.

4. Now turn on the NOKIA and you should see the bootup in the hyper terminal screen.

Hope this helps

jzsjr

When you installed pfsense on the hdd after the 99 command did you reboot and then turn the installation computer off remove the hdd and put in the IP330, or did you reboot after installation and do any kind of nic setup and then move it to the IP330?

thanks,
Jim

bweyr

@jzsjr:

When you installed pfsense on the hdd after the 99 command did you , or did you reboot after installation and do any kind of nic setup and then move it to the IP330?

thanks,
Jim

Hi after the 99 I turned the installation computer off, remove the hdd and put in the IP330. On the nokia from the counsel I then did the nic configuration LAN fxp0, wan fxp1, opt fxp2. fxp0 is the port closest to the counsel port

jzsjr

Thanks for the info. This is pretty much what we tried to do on Friday but did not get anything via the console port. I am using a cable that was successful viewing console off a foundrynetworks switch. How long after you booted the IP330 did you see anything on the terminal? Is the IP330 bios driving the console or is the pfsense OS doing that? We'll be trying it again on Monday. Left everything at the office.

thanks,
Jim

bweyr

@jzsjr:

Thanks for the info. This is pretty much what we tried to do on Friday but did not get anything via the console port. I am using a cable that was successful viewing console off a foundrynetworks switch. How long after you booted the IP330 did you see anything on the terminal? Is the IP330 bios driving the console or is the pfsense OS doing that? We'll be trying it again on Monday. Left everything at the office.

thanks,
Jim

Hi it is the Machine BIOS that is driving the console. The BIOS boot screen comes up in the console first within 20 sec of turning it on.
Are you sure the cable is wired as a NULL modem?

jzsjr

The console does not appear to be working on the IP330 we got. We can tell that it is access the hdd though. Any ideas on setting up pfsense under these circumstances?

thanks,
Jim

bweyr

@jzsjr:

The console does not appear to be working on the IP330 we got. We can tell that it is access the hdd though. Any ideas on setting up pfsense under these circumstances?

thanks,
Jim

No sorry. But I still think you should check the cable. most foundry switches i've seen use a straight-through serial not a null modem serial.

hoba

You could try to edit the config.xml to fit the nokias configuration and boot it up with that. This way you can access it by the webgui and ssh and leave the serial console broken. Maybe someone of the fellow nokia330 users here can provide a factory default config with correctly assigned interfaces and turned on ssh with all other settings at default values for you and other nokia users. Can anybody help with that?

bweyr

HI
I can try that. I will test it out first. If it works OK I will post the config file

jzsjr

Hey,

You were right. I dug up a cable that came with one of our HP Procurves and it works. Right now our problem is the drive boots up and can not mount the root. We are going to try some things to figure this out. Have not been able to mount it manually so far.

thanks,
Jim

bweyr

@jzsjr:

Hey,

You were right. I dug up a cable that came with one of our HP Procurves and it works. Right now our problem is the drive boots up and can not mount the root. We are going to try some things to figure this out. Have not been able to mount it manually so far.

thanks,
Jim

Hi Jim
Glad you got it going.:)

jzsjr

Got it going and it auto assigned mac addresses to the nics. Very nice touch from the pfsense team.

thanks,
Jim

jzsjr

How do you like our rebranded IP330?

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hoba

Very nice! I like it :)

jzsjr

Bweyr,

Have you noticed that the halt command does not power the IP330 down? I can hear the hdd click like it is parking the head but the unit will not power off. Is this a limitation on the Nokia hardware?

thanks,
Jim

hoba

I don't know if the nokia has a similiar setting like the nexcom, but I had to make a special setting at the nexcom to make reboots and powerdowns available. I documented what is needed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/support@pfsense.com/msg03811.html
Also try disabling ACPI and check the Bios for powermanagementspecific settings.

jzsjr

Not really sure how to enter bios via console cable if it is even possible. Another question, Does the auto mac address assigner happen every time the machine is booted up? Can I go ahead and manually assign the fake mac addresses to the nics to it does not have to do this?

thanks,
Jim

jzsjr

I've been reading on how to get into the bios of the ip330 and I guess we still do not have a real null cable modem. Amazing that we do not have this. After the AT comes up we do not see anything from the machine until the freebsd starts to boot up. I have ordered some null cables so we'll just have to wait till they come in.

thanks,
Jim

hoba

Try teraterm http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
I use this to enter WRAP, Nexcom and other BIOSes. It has a break-function in the Dropdownmenu Control>Send break or just use ALT+B alternativly. Sometimes this works where other terminal emulations don't work. Send the break before the machine actually starts to boot.