Installation on Intel D2500CC (atom with dual NIC board)
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Where did you guys find this board?
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Got mine from minipc.de in Germany (delivery costs to the UK weren't too bad). Logic Supply EU store suggest they will have it in stock from 1st March.
Boot from the live CD (some odd video corruption - some characters appear as blocks rather than the character typed when you enter WAN and LAN set-up information etc.), struggling to get an embedded image to boot properly from a USB flash drive (Geometry errors)
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Does the reading of the thermal sensors work with this board?
//Jani
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Not sure - still struggling to get embedded install to boot from USB flash drive. Keep getting GEOM warnings and boot stopping - which I think are to do with the way the image is being written to the flash drive (have tried physdiskwrite in Windows and dd in OS X on a Mac).
Booted once OK from a USB drive with 4GB embedded VGA i386 image but got fsck -y warnings - so re-flashed and now can't get it to fully boot at all.
Booting from USB CD drive fine - but I want an embedded install. May go down the SATA CF card route instead…
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Where did you guys find this board?
I bought it here
http://www.cartft.com/catalog/gl/78Together with the M350 mini ITX case and the picoPSU power supply a small combination for a firewall/router.
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What happens if you try with a sata HD ?
Can you try to output the console to the serial port(s) instead?(sry for the q;s i have been looking for this board myself, very interested in how it behaves :))
//Jani
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What happens if you try with a sata HD ?
Can you try to output the console to the serial port(s) instead?(sry for the q;s i have been looking for this board myself, very interested in how it behaves :))
//Jani
Don't have a spare SATA HD or a Serial capture option at the moment - as my D2500CC set-up is not being built at home but at a second location. Hope to be able to do both things soon, but at the moment I only have a USB DVD-R drive, a DVI monitor, some USB sticks and a couple of laptops to work with…
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Booting from USB CD drive fine - but I want an embedded install. May go down the SATA CF card route instead…
So far my system is running well on D2500cc, but i386 version only. I tested two installations so far:
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Embeded 4 GB nanobsd version on CF card with CF to STAT adapter. The installation I did on my Windows PC with physdicwrite.
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Normal installation on SATA HDD. The istallation I did by booting from USB pen drive with memstick build I created before on my Windows PC with physdiskwrite
Did you tried to update BIOS to Ver 30 and disable S.M.A.R.T. dunction in BIOS? I did not figured out what exactly was the root cause for my reading errors. But afder doing this and switching off in Bios all components I do not use everthing is working fine with i386 build.
Now I'm wondering why I bought the CF card. The intention was to create a low power system for home use. But I can not see a difference in power consumption between CF card in SATA adapter and 2.5" SATA HDD. With HDD I can use HDD cache for squid. But I'm not sure if this hardware (2.5" HDD) is perfect for 24/7 in fanless system.
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Hello,
I placed an order for this mobo, i will report my results later.
I thought of running a small(<60Gb) SSD drive on this instead of a CF-solution.
Small SSD;s are quite priceworthy vs a CF-card
//Jani
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Building my first PFsense box, and saw this board recommended elsewhere on the forum based on its expected low street price (intel says $85 MSRP), its low wattage, and crucially the dual intel nics.
Besides getting a little tired of waiting for these to hit the USA retailers (just saw one site move their eta from march 5th to march 13), I'm wondering if some of the other canoe creek atom ITX boards would do just as well, or better.
D2500HN is only a single Lan, same everything else as the d2500cc, but readily available for as little as $70 shipped.
D2700MUD has a 2.13ghz cpu vs the 1.86ghz 2500, and has hyperthreading, which neither 2500 does.
Would adding a pci intel gigabit card to either of these boards give me the same throughput as the dual nic d2500cce? Worth noting that I only have 20/5 Fios internet at the moment,but my aim is to allow this box to last as long as possible.
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Would adding a pci intel gigabit card to either of these boards give me the same throughput as the dual nic d2500cce?
The best the PCI bus could do is run one direction of a gigabit ethernet at line speed in ONE direction. The dual nics are probably capable of running both NICs at line speed in both directions concurrently. I don't know if the limiting factor will be the hardware or the software.
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Hello,
I got pfsense2.0.1-i386 running pretty much straight out of the box.
Updated bios to latest, attached a HDD and a USB-cdrom, chose "3", Boot Pfsense using USB.
A bit of artifacts on the install screen(s) but F10(refresh) helps (screenmap us-ascii_to_cp437.scm seemed a bit better)
Found on-board NICs without any problems, also installed a quad PCI NIC. All working.
kldload coretemp works for temperatures (http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=39595.0)
So far so good, been running it for 1,5h :)
Regards
Jani
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Got mine from minipc.de in Germany (delivery costs to the UK weren't too bad). Logic Supply EU store suggest they will have it in stock from 1st March.
Boot from the live CD (some odd video corruption - some characters appear as blocks rather than the character typed when you enter WAN and LAN set-up information etc.), struggling to get an embedded image to boot properly from a USB flash drive (Geometry errors)
I have same character problem. Every fourth character is blanked. Did you maybe figure out how to fix it?
Same problem here http://149.20.54.209/showthread.php?t=30337
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I have same character problem. Every fourth character is blanked. Did you maybe figure out how to fix it?
Same problem here http://149.20.54.209/showthread.php?t=30337
This kinda worked for me;
A bit of artifacts on the install screen(s) but F10(refresh) helps (screenmap us-ascii_to_cp437.scm seemed a bit better)
//Jani
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thx, I will try that
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I bought it here
http://www.cartft.com/catalog/gl/78Together with the M350 mini ITX case and the picoPSU power supply a small combination for a firewall/router.
This was the built I was looking at. But my readings on this forum:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,45746.0.htmlleads me to believe it will run too hot. I understand 40mm cooling fans can be fitted to the case, has anyone fitted these inside the case? any recommendations for a quiet 40mm fan or is there another case people recommend?
On another note is anyone running a usb wifi access point with this board? I would be interested to know which one and whether it fits in the hidden front usb panel.
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This was the built I was looking at. But my readings on this forum:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,45746.0.htmlleads me to believe it will run too hot.
Maybe if you run a stress test at 100% CPU load over long time as someone did in the feed you mentioned.
But you also can see my comment there. Running pfsense as home firewall fanless is absolutly no issue as long you do not place the case in a small cabinet without air circulation. -
well I was going to use the same case as you, M350 mini itx case and sit it inside our server cabinet. But I am slightly concerned, might use a silverstone sugo sg05 or look for a rackmountable case. Anyone else fitted this in a 2U?
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and sit it inside our server cabinet. […] or look for a rackmountable case.
When I build up my home use pfsense system my intention was to make it silent and reduce the power consumption as much as possible.
When you are planning to install it in a server cabinet don't think too much about. Take a 1U rackmount with fan. For mini ITX there are even dual rackmount cases existing where you can install two boards in one case.