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    Installing on a Firebox X700

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    • stephenw10S Offline
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      No there's no special card. Like I said both I tried worked fine.
      It is possible that the Sandisk CF cards you are trying to use are incompatible.

      Have you tried m0n0wall on one of the Sandisk 4GB cards?

      Are you seeing the red arm LED?

      Steve

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        GOBIGRED
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        yes i seethe red led light it beeps ones when booting up dont know if that tells much. the board has a green light on it as well

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        • stephenw10S Offline
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Those things are all good signs. The beep happens after the memory test as it tries to boot an OS.

          What size card is m0n0wall booting from?

          Steve

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            GOBIGRED
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            Its booting from the 4g scandisk!! i went out and got another CF aits a lexar 4 g 200x works with m0nowall not with pfsense

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            • stephenw10S Offline
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Hmm, well that's very odd.
              Are you using the 4GB image?

              Try using a 1GB image instead. It's possible the image doesn't fit on the card.
              E.g. http://files.chi.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-1g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz

              Steve

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                GOBIGRED
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                ok tryed that image, when i turn it on the 0-5 blinks green power is orange and arm/ disarm is red it beep the lcd is lite up after it beeps the lcd goes black a few moments later lcd lights up i open putty speed 9600 data bits 8 stop bits 1 parity none flow control xdn.xoff and still nothing anyway you could send me the image your using since it works?

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                • stephenw10S Offline
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  The actual image I'm using is:
                  http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/pfsense/downloads/pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-1g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz

                  Try setting flow control: none.
                  Also make sure you have putty open before you boot the box.

                  What baudrate does m0n0wall use?

                  Steve

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                    GOBIGRED
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                    I tried setting it to none and still get nothing i dont know whats going on!!

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                    • stephenw10S Offline
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Hmm, this is odd behaviour. I'm now starting to imagine crazy scenarios to explain it.

                      It still seems to me most likely that the image is simply not writing to the card correctly. Are you using the same method for the m0n0wall image?

                      Although it should make no difference there is a possibility that an older pfSense image may work. Try:
                      http://files.chi.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/old/pfSense-1.2.3-RELEASE-1g-nanobsd.img.gz

                      Steve

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                        GOBIGRED
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                        Update i still cant get the firebox to run pfsense!!! i have ordered a new one and will give updates about how the process is with that one? is there any other suggestions on what to do to get the one i have now to work?

                        thanks

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                        • stephenw10S Offline
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          Well I think I'm out.  ???
                          Let's review what you have tried.
                          Try to list everything you have tried and I'll see if I can see anything we've overlooked.

                          It shouldn't be this difficult!  ::)

                          Steve

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                            GOBIGRED
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                            so i first tried using windows 7 to use phydiskwrite to flash a four gig cp and nothing worked, i tried many diffrent  images still
                            then i load a windows xp box ran everything with admin rights and still get nowhere, tried four diffrent cp all 4 gigs still nothing, trying to find a store around that sells a 2 gig,

                            List of card i tried
                            -scandisk
                            -kingston
                            -lexar
                            -cannon

                            Still no luck sucks big time really wanted to throw a pfsense box in to the network soon

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                              GOBIGRED
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                              Steve i think its writting to CF. The only reason i think that is after i try it in the FB and i go to flash it again to try another one it makes me format the card agin because windows cant read it. I think its there DB9 but i dont see how its brand new i went out and got it cuz i dont use them with cisco products and thats what i deal with the most so im a little confused, You said there is no special serial cable needed right?

                              Thanks for helping as much as you have!!!

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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Even if the image was not correctly written to the card it would still over write the fat32 format that Windows uses. It would still ask you to reformat it even if the image was corrupt. I have never had a physdiskwrite give any trouble with Windows XP and a USB card adapter. The only time it has failed to write the image was when the card was too small for the image but then it gives an error to tell you that.

                                Even so you might as well try using Win32 Image Writer instead. Unlike physdiskwrite it can't gunzip the image file so you have to do that your self first with Winrar or some similar program.

                                The cable required is a standard Null Modem cable. It's no different than the one required for m0n0wall so if that's working it should be fine.

                                Steve

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                                  GOBIGRED
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                                  i cant figure out how to use win32 image writer lol!! I cant belive its this much of a pain!!!

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                                  • stephenw10S Offline
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    You could try this image.
                                    It's an image of a 16MB CF card, so it will fit on almost any card, with FreeDOS loaded. It boots with its output to the serial port at 9600. It has no purpose on this box other than as a test.
                                    When it boots just before it switches to the serial console it beeps three times so you know it has booted correctly. If you hear the beeps but don't see anything on the serial console you know you have a problem with your serial connection.

                                    Steve

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                                      dLockers
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                                      I had no success using Windows to write the image, I reverted to using a virtual machine with Ubuntu.

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                                        GOBIGRED
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                                        Install Solved!!! IT was the cable !!
                                        Now how do i configure the interfaces?
                                        Is there a gui or is it all command line?

                                        And what do i do to Fix the lcd ?

                                        Thanks

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                                        • stephenw10S Offline
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                          WOOT!  ;D

                                          Did you setup the WAN and LAN initially via the serial console?
                                          If not I suggest you re-flash the card and go through the inital setup again, that's easiest.
                                          After that you can access the web GUI via the LAN interface on 192.168.1.1 (unless you changed it). From there you can assign the other interfaces and have fun with all the other features.
                                          There is still something strange that affects only the X-Core box that you may find. The serial console does not spawn a menu as it should after the bootup messages. There are several workarounds, I'm using this: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7458.msg241783.html#msg241783

                                          Thanks to some great work by several people there is now a driver for the firebox LCD in the lcdproc-dev package which is in the pfSense package system. Not all the bugs have been squashed yet but it's functional.

                                          Steve

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                                            GOBIGRED
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                                            Steve,

                                            What do you mean by this (Thanks to some great work by several people there is now a driver for the firebox LCD in the lcdproc-dev package which is in the pfSense package system)? im having trouble trying to get the lcd to work? Im running the 2.01 image!! cant seem to find anything with steps to get to work thanks

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