Will pfSense work on a 79$ intel computer stick?
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Of course, it would have to use a powered USB hub with USB NICs and the throughput would be very low. But will it work at all?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Z83S-Mini-PC-2-32GB-Z8350-Processor-2M-Cache-64-bit-Windows-10-Linux-system/32794217227.html -
Why bother when you can get a SG-1000 for not much more?
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USB network cards will give you grief. ZOLTAC CI325 or a pfsense branded box are better ideas.
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Both the CI325 and the SG-1000 costs 200$ and more with shipping.
Anyway, meanwhile I found out that the Intel Cherry Trail processors work with Linux but not with FreeBSD, so the answer to the question I asked is negative.
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as the stick lacks a ethernet port, no one bothered to try before.
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Both the CI325 and the SG-1000 costs 200$ and more with shipping.
Anyway, meanwhile I found out that the Intel Cherry Trail processors work with Linux but not with FreeBSD, so the answer to the question I asked is negative.
What are you basing this on? I'd be very surprised that FreeBSD didn't support those CPUs out of the box because there's largely nothing to "support", no special drivers involved. The support for the integrated graphics is a completely different matter though but for pfSense you'll get the standard VGA graphics at least no matter what.
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@kpa:
Both the CI325 and the SG-1000 costs 200$ and more with shipping.
Anyway, meanwhile I found out that the Intel Cherry Trail processors work with Linux but not with FreeBSD, so the answer to the question I asked is negative.
What are you basing this on? I'd be very surprised that FreeBSD didn't support those CPUs out of the box because there's largely nothing to "support", no special drivers involved. The support for the integrated graphics is a completely different matter though but for pfSense you'll get the standard VGA graphics at least no matter what.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/57321/
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=118614.0
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/59275/ -
Do you have this device already? I certainly wouldn't buy one specifically for this if you don't.
It looks like it should boot with the UARTs disabled though.
Steve
