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      Fever_Wits
      last edited by

      Hello,

      i have a Firefox model x750e and i have 2 questions:
      1. I need to manually change the status status LED and send messages to the LCD display with a script.
      How can I do this?

      2. I will upgrade the processor with this:
      Intel Pentium M 770 SL7SL 2.13GHz 2M 533MHZ FSB SOCKET 479 Mobile CPU Processor.
      My question is someone did it and how it configured the jumpers. If yes, I ask for a photo.

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      • SammyWooS
        SammyWoo
        last edited by

        Well there is no pfsense direct support for custom boxes, so unless somebody wrote a driver….. SEARCH the threads here and hope u get lucky.  Otherwise is all DIY baby.

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          AndyC
          last edited by

          @Fever_Wits:

          Hello,

          i have a Firefox model x750e and i have 2 questions:
          1. I need to manually change the status status LED and send messages to the LCD display with a script.
          How can I do this?

          2. I will upgrade the processor with this:
          Intel Pentium M 770 SL7SL 2.13GHz 2M 533MHZ FSB SOCKET 479 Mobile CPU Processor.
          My question is someone did it and how it configured the jumpers. If yes, I ask for a photo.

          1. Assuming you are talking about the Watchguard Firebox x750e, here is a thread about that: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=130307.msg717808#msg717808
          Check the links in that post.

          2. I have the x550e with that CPU. There's info printed on the motherboard for the DIP switch settings. Use the "Dothan" setting.
          Pictures here: http://www.copyerror.com/2012/10/27/watchguard-firebox-core-x550ex750ex1250e/2/

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            Fever_Wits
            last edited by

            Thank you very much for AndyC,
            I came across this: https://blog.squidblacklist.org/?p=1062 and I was very confused.
            That's why I wanted some pictures from someone who did it.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              You can change the arm/disarm LED using WGXepc. See:
              https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox#Controlling_hardware_with_WGXepc

              You can run the LCD using lcdproc. If you need to write custom text to it though you might need to use a different client than the php client in the pfSense package.

              Steve

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                Fever_Wits
                last edited by

                Hello,
                I was lucky today and I came across this:
                ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/old/old-software-pages/Manuals/lcdprocHowto.pdf
                a script + this documentation + lcdexec, can do a lot of interesting things :)
                I hope this is useful to somebody.

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