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    Unresponsive SG-4860 after firmware upgrade 2.4.4

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    • RicoR
      Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
      last edited by

      Did you install the correct driver? https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers
      Checked in Device Manager COM3 is correct?

      -Rico

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        Blackops @Rico
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        @rico
        Rico yeah I downloaded the window 10 driver from the exact same link you sent. I went to check again and it was the same.

        When I check device manager under ports, it shows up as COM3 and there is no issue with the driver (i.e. red or yellow !).

        I can have the putty connection to the 4860 via console and if I unplug the USB from the computer it terminated the connection and will kill the putty session. So I would assume everything is good (from what I can tell). Just nothing happens when I hit enter in the putty terminal. The cursor just stays at the top. I even went and tried changing the baud rate just to see if maybe that would do it but it didn't.

        I just tried to see if by dumb luck I could connect through the web interface 192.168.1.1 but not luck either.

        So I am stuck as to what to do, since I cannot get anything to work. And everything was totally fine and I was accessing pfsense through the web portal right up until I hit the update button.

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        • RicoR
          Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
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          Try to play with the flow control, set it to OFF when you are on XON/OFF. And RTS/CTS must be disabled.
          I'd also try with another Console program. If nothing helps try with another machine or drop some message to Netgate support.

          -Rico

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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            What are the lights on the units showing? Green? Red?

            Drop a line to the support team at https://go.netgate.com and someone can help you get it back online (or potentially setup an RMA if it's a hardware issue)

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              Blackops @jimp
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              @jimp the lights on the back are green. Only turn red briefly when I power cycle, but goes back to green.

              Thanks for the negate link.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                Green is a good sign!

                If you can get the console connection working you should be able to get it going again then. There could be a larger issue at play but it has to be booting at least partially for the lights to go green.

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                  Blackops @jimp
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                  @jimp I got it to connect once a couple minutes ago but then was just stuck after I hit f1 to boot and did nothing. I have not been able to get it to connect again since then. I even tried duplicating the exact things I did when it did respond for a couple seconds.

                  This is what putty showed when I was able to get it to connect the one time, then after the Boot: F1 it does nothing and just sits there and cannot get it to respond to anything .

                  SeaBIOS (version SageBIOS-20170207_214005-localhost.localdomain)

                  iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:14.0 C100 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+7FB7AF80+7FADAF80 C100

                  iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:14.1 C200 PCI2.10 PnP PMM 7FB7AF80 7FADAF80 C200

                  iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:14.2 C300 PCI2.10 PnP PMM 7FB7AF80 7FADAF80 C300

                  iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:14.3 C400 PCI2.10 PnP PMM 7FB7AF80 7FADAF80 C400

                  Press F12 for boot menu.

                  F1 pfSense

                  F6 PXE
                  Boot: F1

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                  • RicoR
                    Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                    last edited by Rico

                    Please try to boot without any Network Cable connected, just Power and Console.

                    -Rico

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      Try to boot a pfSense installer (either Factory image, which you can get from the support crew if you don't have already), or a CE ADI memstick installer image. If it boots that, try to reinstall and perform a recovery installation.

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                        Blackops @Rico
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                        @rico that's what I have been doing. Haven't had anything but those 2 connected to the 4860. As I moved it over to my desk where my computer is so just bare bones hooked to it right now.

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                          Blackops @jimp
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                          @jimp I downloaded 2.4.4 memstick image and followed the instructions on website for writing image to a flash drive.

                          I have tried to gave the memstick in the USB port when I rebooted and tried connecting to console, but haven't gotten console to respond. The one time console did respond (which is the copy and paste I put in her above) I didn't have the memstick in at the time.

                          I am correct all I need to do is have the flash drive in the USB port and power cycle the 4860 and 🤞 hope it connects to console so I can start the install, correct? Want sure if I was missing a step but that is what I believe to be the steps.

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            Which memstick did you download, specifically? Make sure it's marked as an ADI memstick

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                              Blackops @jimp
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                              @jimp Looks like I downloaded the wrong version. I downloaded the serial one (pfSense-netgate-memstick-2.4.3-RELEASE-p1-amd64.img). I am downloading the ADI version now (pfSense-netgate-memstick-ADI-2.4.4-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz) and also this one just in case (pfSense-netgate-memstick-ADI-2.3.5-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz).

                              I will write it to the flash drive and try it and let you know how it goes.

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                                Blackops @Blackops
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                                @jimp well looks like that did the trick. Was able to get it to get into console mode and show it start up pfsense.

                                I will get back with you because I get stuck, but right now am watching my daughter so I can't be at the computer right now.

                                But I get to step #5 in here

                                https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/solutions/sg-4860/reinstall-pfsense.html

                                And I cannot get it to let me select option #6 configure boot options. I keep hitting the #6 but it just starts booting or doing something. It eventually stops asking what terminal type I want vt100, etc

                                Either way that is what I got to, but I will be back once I put my daughter down for a nap. But progress so far 👍

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                                • jimpJ
                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                                  If it asks for the console, you can use vt100 or xterm, if you're using PuTTY for example, then xtrerm is probably best. After that it should proceed through to the installer.

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                                    Blackops @jimp
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                                    @jimp Thanks yeah once I did that looks like ti started the install. Nice. I maybe winning now.

                                    Question for you I went to try and recover a backup from previous install, it gives me 4 options for partitions. Any idea which partition it would be on by chance?

                                    da0s2a freebsd-ufs (715M)
                                    dalsla freebsd-ufs (20G)
                                    diskid/DISK-000000022500lsla freebsd-ufs (20G)
                                    diskid/DISK-2004351423165190c8f6s2a..... freebsd-ufs (715M)

                                    Figured if I could recover my xml file it will save me time once I get it up and running again.

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                                    • jimpJ
                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                                      Probably the 20G drive. Both of those are likely the same disk. The 715M might be your USB drive.

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                                        Blackops @jimp
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                                        @jimp thanks I will try that one then. Some I had no idea. Thanks will let you know if I have any other questions. Much appreciated.

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                                          Blackops
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                                          @Rico and @jimp thanks guys. I have it up and running finally. I really do appreciate you guys helping me out. So much, thank you both.

                                          Had one last question, is there a good tutorial or article out there for first things you should do one you setup pfsense router? I thought when I initially set it up the first time I followed a tutorial on things to consider doing.

                                          Thanks

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                                          • RicoR
                                            Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                                            last edited by Rico

                                            Well right after Installation when you login into the WebGUI some wizard comes up and you will end up with a working and secure basic Setup. :-)

                                            -Rico

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