Firefox and manual control of LCD and Led Status

[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.

[SammyWoo]

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.

[AndyC]

@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/

[Fever_Wits]

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.

[stephenw10]

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

[Fever_Wits]

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.