Anyone use the Jetway NF9HQL-525 yet?

stephenw10

This board seems to tick all the boxes.
4 X Gigabit on board
Serial console connection
Bootable CF slot
On board DC-DC PSU.

I'm not sure how you could improve on that. (6X Intel Gb NICs? ;))

Steve

fragged

@stephenw10:

This board seems to tick all the boxes.
4 X Gigabit on board
Serial console connection
Bootable CF slot
On board DC-DC PSU.

I'm not sure how you could improve on that. (6X Intel Gb NICs? ;))

Steve

How to improve it? Put a real CPU on it for starters :D

hcsteve

What power supply are people using with this board? I get that it's a 12V DC input, but the Jetway specs say nothing about the current draw.

stephenw10

Hmm, curious that they don't mention a power rating. :-
However you can safely assume it won't ever draw more than, say, 48W so you'd be good with a 4A power brick. In reality you could probably use a far smaller brick but I would want to test it first to be sure.

@fragged:

How to improve it? Put a real CPU on it for starters :D

Ha. Well it's horses for courses here. It's perfect for most SOHO scenarios though.
I did think of one thing that would improve it and that's a wide input on the power supply. That way you could use any laptop power brick.

Steve

joebobfrank

cmb: Where do we get the 2.1 version? I do not see it on the mirrors. More important, when will it be released as stable?

How about this hardware: KINO-PV-D4253?
Will this work with pfsense?
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/IEI-KINOPVD4253-and-KINOPVD5253/

fragged

@joebobfrank:

cmb: Where do we get the 2.1 version? I do not see it on the mirrors. More important, when will it be released as stable?

Check the 2.1 Snapshot Feedback and Problems -forum for download link. I think the most issues left are with captive portal and possibly some ipv6 related stuff.

stephenw10

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/

@joebobfrank:

How about this hardware: KINO-PV-D4253?

Would probably work fine but do you really need 5 serial ports?

Steve

joebobfrank

5 serial ports would be overkill. I guess I'll hold off on a new hardware purchase for a while.

@stephenw10:

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/

@joebobfrank:

How about this hardware: KINO-PV-D4253?

Would probably work fine but do you really need 5 serial ports?

Steve

macmonac

can we boot on usb ?

Regards

richard_b

@macmonac:

can we boot on usb ?

I did a build with the 2.1 beta on this motherboard, and had no problem booting from USB and the CF card with a 2GB card and the appropriate image.