APU1D4 front LEDs

HunorR

Hello, i'm trying to find some tutorial or some drivers to install on my apu to start up my front leds.Can somebody help me out or at this time the led driver is not supported? The APU1 is not from NETGATE.

HunorR

anybody?

Guest

@HunorR:

anybody?

This must be given from the PC Engines Alix Boards manufacturer, but likes in the past
they where even willing to help Linux and BSD projects to activate and use them.

But at this time I really thing PC Engines has some problems with their Alix APU Bios
and pfSense is opening their first shop in the USA and the next will follow inside Europe
this or in the next month and pfSense is based now on FreeBSD 10 so some things must
be written new and this takes some time. I think this is more pointed to those circumstances.

jporter

Have you tried: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/969a579330fba0a35206e499ab2d44da7c5c7117/etc/inc/led.inc

phil.davis

On Alix 2D13 there are these device files:

/dev/led/led1
/dev/led/led2
/dev/led/led3

On my APU systems they are not there. That will be a stumbling block.
The APU sings nicely when stopping and starting, but no flashing lights.

stephenw10

On the APU they are controlled by apugpio as far as I'm aware.

Edit: I mean /dev/gpioapu see:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75477.msg424065#msg424065

Steve

phil.davis

In that other thread I see there is extra stuff, so I guess that makes the /dev/led devices appear. led.inc checks for the existence of the led* device files before it tries to do anything, so something of the gpioapu thing needs to also make led* devices.

stephenw10

You don't need the led devices to turn on the leds though. You can just write to gpioapu. Though the logic seems a bit odd. I can only control the first two LEDs on my box here.

Steve

jimp

There is a different driver for the APU LEDs that makes them show up as /dev/led entries, but the licensing on the driver was a bit odd, I'm not sure that ever got properly cleared up to include it.