PC Engines apu2 experiences
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Not sure. It only has 4GB RAM, and some 32-bit operating systems are faster.
How about those other things?
It uses very little RAM. As my tag says APU2C4. I've never seen RAM usage over 30% and I use pfBlocker too, run my own web and mail servers too. 2Gb would probably be sufficient.
It works perfectly well with a default install. With the fact it supports AES you can enable that… or not, it's optional but enable it anyway.
As has been said already 32bit is deprecated anyway.
It's a really good device and takes only minutes to install and set up pfSense from scratch.
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Do you need the temperature sensor?
Yep
Is the cpu scaling from the lowest bottom to the highest top as needed by default?
Not sure. It was talked about in this thread. Do I?
Is this a mSATA or SSD that supports TRIM?
Of course.
- Hardware TCP & large receive offload changes
Is all running fine without any issues, like you was imagine it?
Of course, but maybe it can run better, which is obviously why I asked.
- AES-NI changes
Are you using the OpenVPN or IPSec VPN method?
Of course, that's why I asked.
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I noticed today that the APU2 makes a quick short beep every time I login via the GUI.
Have I just never noticed this or is it new in 2.4.0?
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I noticed today that the APU2 makes a quick short beep every time I login via the GUI.
Have I just never noticed this or is it new in 2.4.0?
Mine always did this from SSH via the speaker on the computer running putty but it's new for me the speaker of the apu2 device now beeps kind-a cool really
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I have to ask this but which is better between the two BIOS series releases for the APU2? 4.0.x or 4.5.x/4.6.x?
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Never had issues with either of them.
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Any ideas why I'm getting a board mismatch error:
Calibrating delay loop… delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffae000.
Found chipset "AMD FCH".
Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
This coreboot image (PC Engines:PC Engines apu2) does not appear to
be correct for the detected mainboard (PC Engines:PCEngines apu2).
Aborting. You can override this with -p internal:boardmismatch=force.As you can see in the logs, they're the same exact board so I'm not sure why there's a mismatch?
EDIT: Nevermind, I already figured it out. It seems to be caused by the space between PC and Engines so forcing it fixed the problem.
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Any ideas why I'm getting a board mismatch error:
Calibrating delay loop… delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffae000.
Found chipset "AMD FCH".
Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
This coreboot image (PC Engines:PC Engines apu2) does not appear to
be correct for the detected mainboard (PC Engines:PCEngines apu2).
Aborting. You can override this with -p internal:boardmismatch=force.As you can see in the logs, they're the same exact board so I'm not sure why there's a mismatch?
whats the firmware filename and model apu you have?
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@marjohn56:
Any ideas why I'm getting a board mismatch error:
Calibrating delay loop… delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffae000.
Found chipset "AMD FCH".
Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
This coreboot image (PC Engines:PC Engines apu2) does not appear to
be correct for the detected mainboard (PC Engines:PCEngines apu2).
Aborting. You can override this with -p internal:boardmismatch=force.As you can see in the logs, they're the same exact board so I'm not sure why there's a mismatch?
whats the firmware filename and model apu you have?
I have the APU2C4. See my edit notes above, I already fixed it.
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Any ideas why I'm getting a board mismatch error:
Calibrating delay loop… delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffae000.
Found chipset "AMD FCH".
Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
This coreboot image (PC Engines:PC Engines apu2) does not appear to
be correct for the detected mainboard (PC Engines:PCEngines apu2).
Aborting. You can override this with -p internal:boardmismatch=force.As you can see in the logs, they're the same exact board so I'm not sure why there's a mismatch?
They're not exactly the same: somebody decided things would look nicer if they added a space, so now you're forced to override the safety check to install the firmware. Let the author know the missing space didn't really bother you.
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yes, the force option, I did not need that, strange.
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Any ideas why I'm getting a board mismatch error:
Calibrating delay loop… delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffae000.
Found chipset "AMD FCH".
Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
This coreboot image (PC Engines:PC Engines apu2) does not appear to
be correct for the detected mainboard (PC Engines:PCEngines apu2).
Aborting. You can override this with -p internal:boardmismatch=force.As you can see in the logs, they're the same exact board so I'm not sure why there's a mismatch?
They're not exactly the same: somebody decided things would look nicer if they added a space, so now you're forced to override the safety check to install the firmware. Let the author know the missing space didn't really bother you.
I must have gone from a different firmware version :)
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Any ideas why I'm getting a board mismatch error:
Calibrating delay loop… delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
coreboot table found at 0xdffae000.
Found chipset "AMD FCH".
Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
This coreboot image (PC Engines:PC Engines apu2) does not appear to
be correct for the detected mainboard (PC Engines:PCEngines apu2).
Aborting. You can override this with -p internal:boardmismatch=force.As you can see in the logs, they're the same exact board so I'm not sure why there's a mismatch?
They're not exactly the same: somebody decided things would look nicer if they added a space, so now you're forced to override the safety check to install the firmware. Let the author know the missing space didn't really bother you.
Yes, I figured it out after a few seconds of Googling and stumbling upon your post in the PCEngines forum :)
@marjohn56:
yes, the force option, I did not need that, strange.
Probably because when you bought the device, you had a BIOS with version of 4.0.8 or above. I bet yours is pretty new.
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Possibly, I have two APU's one that's live and one that's test. The live version runs 4.0.7, from the pcengines site.
The other has bounced around a bit, so maybe I did have to force it, or not…. can't remember. ::)
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Has anybody had any luck getting the front LED's to work with pfSense?
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Has anybody had any luck getting the front LED's to work with pfSense?
Please read this post carefully word for word.
APU2C4 led´sI would be installing a VM (FreeBSD 11.1) and compile it by my self and copy it then into the pfSense box.
Reddit apuled.ko -
What would the LED's do when those drivers are installed?
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I just wanted to check, does anyone else have these messages about needing to accept intel licenses in their /var/log/dmesg.boot?
I updated the firmware yesterday to 4.6.1, now I’m not sure if it’s related.
Of course, after doing what it says, the errors/warnings go away.
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What would the LED's do when those drivers are installed?
I suppose you would be able to configure the LED’s to show gateway status etc.
There are packages that you can install from the pfSense software repository (blinked and gwled) for this if you want to see what the options are. But apparently there’s some extra steps required to actually make it work.I haven’t bothered, I never look at it anyway :P
