Gigabyte Intros Bay Trail J1800 Based Mini-ITX Board
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These are perfect for pfsense, one could get a 2 port ethernet card and have a very green system yet powerful enough for future use.
Will be interesting to see what a complete baytrail system gets on full load…
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Is the onboard NIC supported by pfsense? its Realtek.
Out of curiosity, because i have looked at boards like this 100 times, debating on what I want to use to build a pfsense box, but would you get a pico psu and get a case, or what would you do to get your rig ready for pfsense after purchasing this Gigabyte mini-itx board.
I like that it has such a low price, high CPU clock speed, fanless and most of all the low power consumption.
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Now MSI joined the club:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-bay-trail-j1800i-j1800,25980.html
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Military class 4. Its also for around $60 too. I like the price, CPU speed and power consumption.
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Another new board about to be released:
Gigabyte Announces Quad-Core J1900-Based Motherboard
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-j1900-motherboard,26067.html
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So you would probably have to wait until pfSense 2.2 for these boards to work?
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So you would probably have to wait until pfSense 2.2 for these boards to work?
Could have problems if there aren't any usb 2.0 ports and depending on the chipset and network.
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Motherboard with onboard Realtek NIC are very bad…
Pfsense 2.1 and also 2.1.1 is not compatible with Gigabyte Motherboard with J1800/1900 because this motherboards have NIC Realtek 8111G.
At this moment also Intel Nic I210 not working with Psense 2.1.1
Bst
Luis Martins -
Motherboard with onboard Realtek NIC are very bad…
Well, they're not "very bad", but the performance of the Realtek NICs isn't good.
Pfsense 2.1 and also 2.1.1 is not compatible with Gigabyte Motherboard with J1800/1900 because this motherboards have NIC Realtek 8111G.
Some variants of the RT 8111 do work. I don't know about the 'G' version though.
At this moment also Intel Nic I210 not working with Psense 2.1.1
Really? It should.
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The new igb driver was backed out on 19th Feb. The driver in 2.1.1 snapshots currently is the same as that which shipped in 2.1 release which doesn't support the i210. As far as I'm aware at least. ;)
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,72763.msg398485.html#msg398485Steve
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So that Gigabyte Quad-Core J1900 motherboard may work with pfsense 2.1.1 and maybe 2.1?
Will its Realtek NICs be a big loss in performance compared to an Intel NIC?
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What I like about the GigaByte J1900 board is that the PCI slot isn't blocked by jumpers or big capacitors.
However you might not be able to use the mini-pci-e slot…
I can install my PCI-X based dual intel NIC without a hitch and disable the onboard realtek nics. -
Supermicro already has a j1900 board out, and it comes with dual Intel
i210AT NICs:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/celeron/X10/X10SBA-L.cfmWould that board work out of the box with pfsense 2.1/2.1.1, even if you did have to use a PCI NIC to get it to work? or even any of the J1800/J1900 motherboards for that matter
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http://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-150
Coming mid-April ::)
They describe the realtek NIC as :
RTL8111G (in the PDF data diagram)
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I built a J1900-based pfSense box, only to find that pfSense has issue with Bay Trail processors that prevents it from booting properly: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3678
I hope that this will save someone else from having the same trouble, or encourage the issue to get resolved.
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Hi Everyone
I just got a Gigabyte J1900N-D3V motherboard and booted off my trusty pfSense memory stick. Only to be presented with the dreaded "Bogus Interrupt Trigger Mode" message.
After looking around the interweb and trying different things, I found this to work for me.
Update the bios to F3 (came shipped with F2)
I re-imaged my trusty pfSense memory stick with "pfSense-memstick-2.1.3-RELEASE-amd64-20140501-1552.img" just to be sure.Installed first time, no errors.
Here is the strange bit. If I do a 5) Reboot system, it boots back every time.
If I do a 6) Halt system, she will error out with this error once I hit the power button to start up again.
panic: Bogus Interrupt Polarity
Now at this stage, I hit the reset button on the box (as opposed to powering off) and it will boot.
Just seems to be an issue when starting the box from a fully shutdown state.weird or what? 2 parts of annoying I might add.
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As linked to in kenmasterson's bug report this is a BIOS bug in the form of a bad ACPI table, I guess Gigabyte didn't fix all the problems with F3. Get on them with your error, you never know they might actually fix it in F4. ;)
Steve
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As linked to in kenmasterson's bug report this is a BIOS bug in the form of a bad ACPI table, I guess Gigabyte didn't fix all the problems with F3. Get on them with your error, you never know they might actually fix it in F4. ;)
Steve
Let's hope so. I'm reporting the issue to Asrock, too.
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Better than not booting at all! ;)
You may be able to prevent the hang at halt problem by disabling suspend/low sleep states in the BIOS.Steve
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As linked to in kenmasterson's bug report this is a BIOS bug in the form of a bad ACPI table, I guess Gigabyte didn't fix all the problems with F3. Get on them with your error, you never know they might actually fix it in F4. ;)
Steve
Let's hope so. I'm reporting the issue to Asrock, too.
I have done the same for my Q1900M, although I'm not expecting too much from them.
Does anyone have any advice, is there some BIOS settings I could try?
