PfSense on a Celestix S-X MSA 4000

kendalja

I was able to find this out there not sure if it would help:

https://github.com/camerongray1515/Celestix-Scorpio-X-LCD

stephenw10

Unfortunately it doesn't. It still uses the same Linux driver:

def lcd_display(message, line=1):
    message = str(message)
    line_selection = "\x00" if line == 1 else "\x01"
    preamble = "\x02\x00\x00{0}\x28\x00\x00\x00".format(line_selection)
    endpad = "\x20"*(40-len(message))

    data = preamble + message + endpad
    with open("/dev/hidraw0", "w") as lcd:
lcd.write(data)

Addresses /dev/hidraw0.

Interesting that that driver is in VyOS though…. if it's a standard Linux driver we might be able to see some clues.

Steve

kendalja

dmesg on system yields:

ukbd0: <vendor 0="" 2="" 0x0cb6="" keyboard="" +="" lcd,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus1</vendor>

fmertz

Looks like there is something testable with the information published this far.

The Python code shows a sequence of hex codes

The device is known

The BSD shell has the printf built-in, and it accepts codes on octal format.

So, to hexadecimal 0x20 becomes octal \40

Try something like this:

printf "\02\00\00\61\50\00\00\00Some Message" > /dev/ukbd0

Try this for line 2:

printf "\02\00\00\62\50\00\00\00Some Message" > /dev/ukbd0

kendalja

So something interesting happened. I rebooted the machine and now dmesg shows:

ukbd1: <vendor 0="" 2="" 0x0cb6="" keyboard="" +="" lcd,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus1

This is what I get while running the printf command

[2.3.5-RELEASE][root@pfSense.geek.local]/: printf "\02\00\00\61\50\00\00\00Some Message" > /dev/ukbd1
/dev/ukbd1: Device busy.</vendor>

stephenw10

Hmm, that's not good. Changing device names makes it that much harder to work with even we could get it to accept any input. :-\

Steve

fmertz

Good reading here:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ukbd&sektion=4

Seems like we would need that character device. Once it shows as /dev/kbd1, that printf should be directed to it. Worth a try…

kendalja

@fmertz:

Good reading here:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ukbd&sektion=4

Seems like we would need that character device. Once it shows as /dev/kbd1, that printf should be directed to it. Worth a try…

I’m relatively new to pfsense here and have read that. How would I go about compiling that in the kernel and config to test? May need a little guidance here but looks like we’re getting somewhere here!

fmertz

Actually, looking at the Linux device, it suggests it is a raw device. Maybe the character device is not needed.

Maybe it needs to be initialized read/write:

exec 3<> /dev/ukbd1

kendalja

@fmertz:

Actually, looking at the Linux device, it suggests it is a raw device. Maybe the character device is not needed.

Maybe it needs to be initialized read/write:
exec 3<> /dev/ukbd1

I'll give this a shot when I get home and report back!

kendalja

@fmertz:

Actually, looking at the Linux device, it suggests it is a raw device. Maybe the character device is not needed.

Maybe it needs to be initialized read/write:
exec 3<> /dev/ukbd1

[2.3.5-RELEASE][root@pfSense.geek.local]/: exec 3<> /dev/ukbd1
Missing name for redirect.