ALIX 2c3 and pfsense (LEDs)
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OpenWRT is Linux, so not very helpful there.
I wouldn't hold my breath on the changes getting backported to the 6 branch, but 1.2.1 is going to be 7 anyway.
Note that I don't have anything very useful at this point. My kernel is pretty stock and not suited for pfSense. You would need to get the module compiled into a proper kernel. That's only going to happen when- pfSense is based on a FreeBSD version with the changes (7.1?)
- A developer with an Alix wants flashing LEDs enough to put the new version in.
- Someone wants cool lights on their Alix enough to put a bounty up to get it done.
I'll drop in a feature request to see if anyone is interested.
edit for ticket number: http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/tktview?tn=1784
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It makes lots of sense!
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I know this thread is very old, but I just thought I'd mention that I just committed a patch that should bring rev 1.11 of geode.c to the 1.2.3-RC snapshots.
At least it's a step in the right direction for ALIX users, the LEDs should at least have hardware support now.
As of right now (11:56PM EDT June 18th, 2009) a new snapshot hasn't happened yet, so if you want to test, wait for the next snapshot after that date/time.
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- A developer with an Alix wants flashing LEDs enough to put the new version in.
That did it.
Must. Have. Blinkenlights. :o
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Yea!
Doh!
https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repos/mainline/commits/001241e4e49f6c8bb408628f073642dd5377f826 -
Yea!
Doh!
https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repos/mainline/commits/001241e4e49f6c8bb408628f073642dd5377f826Yeah the patch didn't apply cleanly, I'm working on it still :)
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Ok, I fixed the patch and committed again. Not sure when the next snapshot will be due.
I've got one building on my own builder, too, so if mine finishes first (unlikely) I'll test it on my ALIX and report what I found.
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jimp,
Thank you very much!
Do you know how I can get them tide up one for networking and one for HDD led….
Must see blinking leds :o
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jimp,
Thank you very much!
Do you know how I can get them tide up one for networking and one for HDD led….
Must see blinking leds :o
Not sure about that part yet. I have a new image built, but I haven't tried it yet, I'm chasing a different problem down at the moment.
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Well I'm still not sure how to assign the LEDs various tasks, but I can tell you the patch worked
My middle light is blinking, not sure what that is indicating, but it's blinking… which is better than off :-)
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Various cool things to do:
On
echo 1 > /dev/led/led3
Off
echo 0 > /dev/led/led3
Fast blink
echo f > /dev/led/led3
Slow blink
echo f9 > /dev/led/led3
(Works with any number from 1-9 or blank)
Morse code
echo "m…---..." > /dev/led/led3
I use led3 in this example but it works with 1-3.
Still not sure how I'll tie them to things or make them generally useful, but I'm open to ideas. (I don't know if they can be tied to network activity or not, doesn't look like it, but we'll see)
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Looks like a new embedded snapshot just happened, it should have this.
http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_2/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/embedded/pfSense-1.2.3-20090620-0341.img.gz
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Jimp,
Maybe you can add what dotdash did which was add RSW's blinkled-…
That would work! :)
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Jimp,
Maybe you can add what dotdash did which was add RSW's blinkled-…
That would work! :)
If I can get a link to the source, perhaps. I couldn't find it with a quick Google search.
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jimp,
I PM dotdash to see if he shares the source code…
Lets see how it goes.TIA!
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I found it here on the forum:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,3454.msg21194.html#msg21194I'll keep experimenting.
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It still compiles and runs for me, I've got LED2 showing my WAN activity and LED3 showing my ath0 activity.
It would still need some kind of a user interface to configure, I'll have to see if I can whip something up.
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jimp,
Thats great!!!!
Lets see how it works out!
Thanks!
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Just grabbed a new image and loaded it on an Alix. The /dev/led devices are there and working- thank you Jim. I couldn't find blinkled, but that may not be in the build yet. Anyway, here are my two cents as to some handy options for the LEDs.
- Use an LED as a 'ready' or 'armed' light. Helpful when you are working with a remote end user. I did something like this by putting a script to light LED2 in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and appending a command to turn it off in /etc/rc.shutdown (kind of a hack).
- Activity for an interface. RSW's blinkled works well for this eg- blinkled -i ath0 -l /dev/led/led3
- VPN linkup. I'd like to be able to do this with IPSec (like on a PIX or something), but I'm not sure how to go about it. Just putting it out there.
- Blink an LED on active alert. I believe this was done with WRAPs at some point, but I never had a WRAP to test with.
- A simple gui would be cool, enumerate the led devices and provide a menu with some stock options or a custom script.
These are only suggestions, I'm happy just to have the led devices now. I can do more testing on this if you need it.
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dotdash,
Good to hear it's working for you, too. I have locally compiled blinkled and have it working, though it will take a little time before I can get any kind of gui going. blinkled is not currently in pfSense anywhere, but if I can get it working with a UI I'm sure it will find its way in.
I doubt it would be a good candidate for a change that would make it into 1.2.3, but 2.0 may only be a couple months away at this point, depending on progress.
I think LED2 already does blink on an active alert, but a slow blink. I'd like something more like you see with: echo 'm…---...' > /dev/led/led3
As long as I know blinkled works for people and doesn't cause any undue load issues, I'll carry on. It seems to work fine on my ALIX and I have yet to see top say it uses more than 0.00% cpu :)
