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    • GruensFroeschliG
      GruensFroeschli
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      The successor of the 2c2 is the 2d2.
      These are the changes from 2c2 to 2d2:

      @http://pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm:

      •Increase USB current limit.
      • USB headers as build option.
      • USB ports 3 and 4 on header (not tested).
      • Change optional serial header J12 to COM2.
      • Add LED and switch pins to I2C header.
      • Populate buzzer driver circuit, add pins for use as GPIO.
      • Add option for power in header J18.
      • Some enhancements to reduce EMI.
      • Add second POSCAP to ruggedize 3.3V rail for high power radio cards.

      Are you affected by any of these changes?

      I have several of the 2c2 in use and never had any problems with them.
      If you can get them cheap i would go for it.

      We do what we must, because we can.

      Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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        Slam
        last edited by

        No I dont need those except I dont know what this means "Add second POSCAP to ruggedize 3.3V rail for high power radio cards".

        Ive tried googling for this but cant find what it is, I plan to put 2 radios in the 2c2's one 2.4ghz and one 5ghz, would the above affect me?

        if not then ill go ahead and order 2 for test lab.

        thanks

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          Seth
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          I believe you'll loose WDS with pfSense.

          –Seth

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          • dotdashD
            dotdash
            last edited by

            The change was needed for the Alix to be able to handle certain high-power radios. I'm not sure exactly how powerful a radio would cause problems- >200mW? >500mW?
            Here is a post from when this fix first came out: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,8877.0.html

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              Slam
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              Thanks a lot guys, I think Ill just order a pair.

              Seth: Ya I know, no wds support in fbsd, but Im going to play around and see if I can achieve similar thing in pfsense, possibly <5GHZ>radio:a -WAN> <lan -="" radio:b<2.4ghz="">then bridge lan 2 wan, I think Ive seen someone post something here about doing it this way.

              Cheers

              Slam</lan>

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                Slam
                last edited by

                Ive been told they dont come with DB9 serial port, but if i solder on, it should work ok,

                thanks dotdash, ill look in to that further.

                cheers guys

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                • dotdashD
                  dotdash
                  last edited by

                  @Slam:

                  Ive been told they dont come with DB9 serial port, but if i solder on, it should work ok,

                  What? Unless they were a custom run with the serial port specifically deleted, there should be a serial port. http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2c2.htm

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                    Slam
                    last edited by

                    Yeah, they come in these cases with only one usb port showing and 2x lan, heres the pic of the board itself, db9 missing.

                    slam

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                      Seth
                      last edited by

                      Thought you may be interested in the following unit
                      http://www.engeniustech.com/datacom/products/details.aspx?id=244

                      NetGate
                      http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=712

                      Cheaper vendor
                      http://www.microcom.us/eap3660.html

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                        Slam
                        last edited by

                        Thanks Seth, Ill check them out further, I noticed the EOR7550, very nice peice of kit and ideal with 2 radios.

                        Cheers

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                          Slam
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                          Well I ended up getting 3 of these, m0n0 and ddwrt boot up fine, I installed pf 2.0 on a spare pc, backed up config.xml, edited interfaces to relate to the alix's (vr0 & vr1) then i fed it back in the spare machine with the restore function, it rebooted and I powered off the computer when it was doing POST, swapped over the cf card to the alix and….didnt work  :D

                          I must of missed something but Ill give it a go again later, as a last resort Ill buy a db9 port!

                          By the way, the person I bought this off has a shit load of old WRAP's that he's selling for peanuts, but even more alix c2c's

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                          • dotdashD
                            dotdash
                            last edited by

                            Try a newer 1.2.3 embedded snapshot, the default interfaces changed to vr0 and vr1 a while back.

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                              Slam
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for the heads up, Ill give the new 1.2.3 nanobsd go.

                              Slam

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                              • dotdashD
                                dotdash
                                last edited by

                                I've just been using the stock embedded ones so far. http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_2/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/embedded/

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                                  Slam
                                  last edited by

                                  Thanks for the link, the latest snapshot (pfSense-1.2.3-20090615-1722.img.gz) worked great for me.

                                  Ill eventually have to get a serial port attached for bios updates, but atleast I can play with it for the time being!

                                  Cheers

                                  Slam

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