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      midacts
      last edited by

      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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        Tikimotel
        last edited by

        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.

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          midacts
          last edited by

          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.cfm

          Would 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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            Tikimotel
            last edited by

            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)
            or
            RTL8111E-VL (specs)

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              kenmasterson
              last edited by

              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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                sdl007
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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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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  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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                    kenmasterson
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10:

                    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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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      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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                        paulsnoop
                        last edited by

                        @kenmasterson:

                        @stephenw10:

                        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?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          So you have the Asrock Q1900M? And it's failing to boot showing the 'interrupt trigger' error?

                          Make sure you're running the most recent BIOS. Try disabling ACPI features in the BIOS.

                          Steve

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                            paulsnoop
                            last edited by

                            Hi Steve, thanks for the reply.

                            @stephenw10:

                            So you have the Asrock Q1900M? And it's failing to boot showing the 'interrupt trigger' error?

                            Yes I have the Q1900M, error is 'bogus interrupt polarity'.

                            @stephenw10:

                            Make sure you're running the most recent BIOS. Try disabling ACPI features in the BIOS.

                            BIOS is the latest (1.30). Here is what I have tried so far:
                            CPU
                            Disabled Speedstep
                            Disabled C States
                            Disabled Enhanced Halt (C1E)

                            Chipset
                            GPU memory to 64mb
                            Disabled IGPU
                            Disabled Onboard Audio
                            Disabled S5 Sleep

                            Various submenus
                            ACHI mode
                            Disabled Intel Smartconnect
                            Disabled Serial port
                            Disabled Parallel port

                            ACPI menu
                            Disabled suspend to RAM
                            Enabled ACPI HPET table
                            Disabled all power on (keyboard, LAN etc)

                            Boot menu
                            CSM Enabled
                            Legacy mode OpROM policy for PXE, Storage, Video

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Hmm, well 3 options I see:
                              1: Fix the bios yourself. Might not be that tough but it's risky.
                              2: Run a hypervisor and run pfSense as a VM.
                              3. Wait for Asrock to fix it. Could be a loooooooong time!

                              I did also look into the possibility of overriding the faulty table at boot. You can do that with the DSDT table but I'm not sure about the MADT.
                              The actual patch to FreeBSD required to workaround this is small but appears to have gone in only on Jun 23 this year so will not have made it into 10-rel and hence pfSense 2.2.
                              https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187966

                              Steve

                              Edit: typos

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                                paulsnoop
                                last edited by

                                Thanks for the tips Steve. As VMWare also has problems with this CPU, I suspect I'll end up going with Hyper-V.

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                                  notar
                                  last edited by

                                  Good morning
                                  I have a q1900M motherborard with two intel nics pro/100 and, this morning, i have finish the router with pfsense. When i load pfsense and i select 1 in the menu, i have the same problem with ACPI but, when i select 2 in the menu, all work fine and install go fine. I am just a problem with the route. Sorry for my English, i have French.

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    So you can boot if you select 'ACPI disabled'?
                                    You can make that permanent by adding the line in /boot/loader.conf.local. See:
                                    https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options#pfSense_2.0

                                    Steve

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                                      notar
                                      last edited by

                                      @stephenw10:

                                      So you can boot if you select 'ACPI disabled'?
                                      You can make that permanent by adding the line /boot/loader.conf.local. See:
                                      https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options#pfSense_2.0

                                      Steve

                                      Good morning
                                      Yes, i can boot with ACPI disable. Thanks for the tip. Notar
                                      PS : I can't install amd64, it bug. I have installed the i386

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                                        notar
                                        last edited by

                                        Good morning
                                        I have tested the pfsense 2.2 alpha and it work fine with acpi enable. Just the dns seem don't work and it is necessary to put a dns in network config. Why this, i don' know. Notar

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          2.2 is still in alpha. A new DNS forwarder is being used and I guess a bug was introduced while things are being ironed out.

                                          https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78356.0

                                          Steve

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                                            elbob
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi,

                                            Long time pfsense user but this is my first post here.

                                            I just want to add to this thread by saying I recently bought a J1900-D3V board. I got around to assembling it yesterday and came across the same issues others were having.

                                            However I did try a trick that was suggested above that worked. On cold boot I get the Interrupt Trigger error. However If I press the reset switch it will boot up with no issues.

                                            I've installed 2.1.4 64bit.

                                            Hopefully this workaround will help someone until a more permanent fix is available from Gigabyte or BSD kernel workaround.

                                            I forgot to mention that I'm using the F3 version of the BIOS and I also disabled all the UFI stuff so everything in the Advanced –> CSM configuration section of the BIOS is set to Legacy.

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