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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      Nice.  :)
      You almost certainly shouldn't have a gateway on LAN, off topic though. Do you have another thread going to discuss that?

      Steve

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        Topper727
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        I do not put gateway on lan.. I only do on Wan.. I think the checking code in there is what is not right. I am use to tools to see variable values and debugging tools.. I don't have any for doing this kind of work so makes it harder to know the failure.

        Off topic. will look for or create for the problem I have with Gateway issue

        Dell 2950 g3 server
        Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
        Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
        8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
        8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
        Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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          mikeisfly
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          Please forgive my ignorance but I would like to get a few lines added to this package. When ever I upgrade my system or reinstall which isn't all the time admittedly, but I have to manually add the port necessary to get my crystal fontz 635 to work. It's kind of a pain in the you know what and it would be cool if it was there natively. I would love to have the following lines added:

          /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.inc:

          
          case "ttyU0":
          	continue;
          	break;
          
          

          and

          
          case "ttyU0":
               $realport = "/dev/ttyU0";
          break;
          
          

          /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.xml:

          
           <option><value>ttyU0</value>
          		<name>USB Com port 3 alternate (/dev/ttyU0)</name></option> 
          
          

          I'm thinking some kind of commit is necessary but not sure of the process. I have no knowledge of github or am I over thinking the process?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            That doesn't work with cuaU0 then? Odd.

            Steve

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              mikeisfly
              last edited by

              That doesn't work with cuaU0 then? Odd.

              Steve

              Nope. I just stopped the service and tried that port. But when I try to restart the service it won't restart. I remember you helped awhile ago to discover ttyU0 was the port that I needed to use. I'm not sure if my screen is special but it's not usb its serial but connects to a USB port. When I connected to Windows that's when I discovered that it had some kind of USB to Serial adapter built into it. The screen is just a CrystalFontz 635 that I bought directly from CrystalFontz. If I use the crystalfontz 633 driver I get a blank screen, I have to use the crystalfontz packet driver. It is my understanding that I can only get the LED on the left side of the screen to work if I use the crystalfontz 633 driver. Would be nice to have those working.

              Just for my knowledge what is the difference between cuaU0 and ttyU0? I tried to do a little searching but I'm not getting any answers.

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                As far as I know (and I'm a bit unsure on this) it's just a terminology difference. Older versions of FreeBSD used tty for serial ports, newer versions use cua but tty is kept for compatibility. In both cases the capital 'U' indicates a USB connected device.

                Steve

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                  Topper727
                  last edited by

                  Yes, CrystalFontz Packet driver is what you need to use. As far as those LED's on the left edge the code I put up here makes those work.

                  https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/532

                  Mike, Couple messages back I explained some you might be interested in seeing those (end of page 32)

                  Dell 2950 g3 server
                  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
                  Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
                  8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                  8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
                  Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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                    mikeisfly
                    last edited by

                    Yes I saw those but I thought is said that you needed to use the crystalfontz 633 driver. I will take a look again. Is there anyway that my port can be added to the package? Thanks.

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                      mikeisfly
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                      Topper727 wrote:

                      Yes, CrystalFontz Packet driver is what you need to use. As far as those LED's on the left edge the code I put up here makes those work.

                      https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/532

                      Mike, Couple messages back I explained some you might be interested in seeing those (end of page 32)

                      Thanks my LEDs are now working they are on. Hopefully I will have sometime this week or weekend to workone the WAN gateway issue. I am also going to sit down to figure out how I can get my port added to this package.

                      Thanks all for the help.

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                        Topper727
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                        Glad to see you got it working.  I hope to get my changes (fixes) put into the lcdproc package as well. I seen Michelle is one who started it.  Maybe she is one going to put these changes in and submit to package system? I am not familiar with this process yet.

                        Dell 2950 g3 server
                        Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
                        Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
                        8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                        8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
                        Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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                          jasonlitka
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                          I just got a pair of boxes which have LCDs in them that I'd love to get working.  Can anyone tell me how I'm supposed to identify which driver I should be using?

                          The boxes are Lanner FW-8865.  I sent an email over to them asking for more info on what LCD was installed and how it was attached, but I was hoping that with any luck someone here would be able to get me started.

                          http://www.lannerinc.com/products/x86-network-appliances/rackmount/fw-8865

                          I can break anything.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            There was a report recently that another Lanner box worked with the sdeclcd driver. That has code in it to work with the XTM5 which is a lightly modified Lanner box. Easy test.

                            Steve

                            Edit: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,68481.msg375797.html#msg375797

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                              jasonlitka
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10:

                              There was a report recently that another Lanner box worked with the sdeclcd driver. That has code in it to work with the XTM5 which is a lightly modified Lanner box. Easy test.

                              Steve

                              Edit: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,68481.msg375797.html#msg375797

                              You. Are. Awesome.  It was "USB COM Port 1" and "Watchguard Firebox with SDEC".

                              Any idea if there's a way to get traffic statistics for multiple interfaces?  I'd love to be able to show total throughput on WAN1 + WAN2.

                              EDIT:  Interestingly enough, Lanner just got back to me and said it's hooked up via Parallel.  Not sure why the setting I picked worked unless the driver portion ignored it.

                              I can break anything.

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                No idea on network stats though there are various code mods in this thread that add functionality you might look through.
                                Yeah I think the sdec driver is hardcoded to use the parallel port. It's interesting that it works at all. I had always assumed that Watchguard had insisted on backwards compatibility with their x-core boxes, which had an sdec LCD, and that was the only reason it works with much newer models. Maybe not.

                                Steve

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                                  jasonlitka
                                  last edited by

                                  Who actually maintains this package? I'd be interested in subsidizing the development a bit if I can get an aggregated traffic option in the UI and have it part of the package.

                                  I can break anything.

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Michelle (mdima) forked the original lcdproc package and updated it. See the first post in this thread.

                                    Steve

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                                      jasonlitka
                                      last edited by

                                      @stephenw10:

                                      Michelle (mdima) forked the original lcdproc package and updated it. See the first post in this thread.

                                      Steve

                                      Yeah, I was hoping that wasn't the case.  Not online for more than 3 weeks.  PM sent though and crossing my fingers.

                                      I can break anything.

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                                        Topper727
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                                        I just got the updates to fix the LED's merged. I hope this means that it will be and update in our packages list. I think this will happen soon.

                                        I just confirmed, if you re-install the LCDProc-dev package you will get the LED Patch now.

                                        Dell 2950 g3 server
                                        Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
                                        Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
                                        8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                                        8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
                                        Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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                                          nobita0313
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                                          I am using HD44780 with LCD2USB on PfSense 2.1. My Lcd is messed up and character are not aligned.
                                          Youtube Video

                                          I have another identical LCD display and adapter and they work normally on a NAS with lcdproc 0.5.6, so I think it is a bug in the package?

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Can you try to kill the php client and start the standard LCDproc client?

                                            Steve

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