What is this board??? Help!
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@adven said in What is this board??? Help!:
Where can i find the readme.boot-flash.txt file.
it's inside the folder /root of your velocloud, or inside the image to flash on the usb key hosted on Kristian's site : https://modlog.net/velocloud-520-to-opensource/
cd /root # 0. **Optional** step 0 - Save off old ROM flashrom -p internal -r ./my-current.rom # -- # Step 1. Flash new Boot rom: ./dmi-tool -u firmware/vc5x0-cb-01-bootorder.rom # This should update the old boot flash, and show you what # entries it's preserving. With this release (01.00.00.00), # it seems to preserve the product serial number, UUID, and # board serial number, but it reads garbage for the product # name and # board version (both of which are new). # The fields that are shown are: # SN=VCExxxxxxxxxx, UUID_str=009fed51-565d-4fe0-b87f-f05daaf94c0c, BSN=xxxxxxxxxx, pname=EDGE520 bversion=1 # The key fields here are the product name and board version. # # pname = one of "EDGE520" or "EDGE540" (without quotes) # bversion = one of "1" (rev A) or "2.0" (rev B) (without quotes) # # -- # Step 2. Flash the appropriate updated DMI info for product name and board version if needed: ./dmi-tool -w -p EDGE520 -v 1 # -- # Step 3. Confirm all the info is correct: ./dmi-tool -r # Verify all of the fields, and then power-cycle. -
@shdf Yes, that command should work. As far as I know, there should only be two revisions of the 520.
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@shdf
The box reconfigured, with the old fw (5x0).
Installed Opnsense, went flawlessly.
LAN (igb0) with v4 on 192.168.1.1/24 and
WAN(igb1) not yet connected.
However, booting is not possible without a USB stick.
The message is: Missing bootloader.
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@adven From what I remember, it’s not possible to use the Ethernet drivers from the kristian openwrt image. Do you think there’s an easy way to run opnsense or pfsense with Ethernet support?
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@youraveragehomelabber said in What is this board??? Help!:
Do you think there’s an easy way to run opnsense or pfsense with Ethernet support?
No. It needs an igb driver that can recognise the connection type used the link to the switch. Or maybe one that just doesn't care about unknown types. We did link to the code mods that were done on OpenWRT to allow it in the now closed repo.
There have been FreeBSD drivers written to do this but as far as know none have ever been made public. Stormsheild/Netasq used exactly this type of setup in some of there devices.
So, it needs driver rework to igb, Non-trivial. And mode if you want to be able to configured the attached switch.Steve
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@stephenw10
Thank you for your response and information.
I just had opnsense working fine on the HD, without a USB stick.
Getting the drivers right is too hard for me, so that
is waiting.
gr. ad. -
I just got pfsense running on my 520-AC and the two SFP ports work flawlessly! I'm currently using two SFP to RJ45 adapters from eBay and I'm getting full gigabit throughput. I was able to get it to install onto the internal storage and all is good! Now we just need to figure out the rest of the ethernet ports on it.
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@youraveragehomelabber I got an edge-500-N, also the eth can not bring up, the 444-intel-igb.patch may help that, but https://bitbucket.org/velocloud/openwrt can not access now.
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@hc8903 Possibly something around here can help?
https://bitbucket.org/canofthings/openwrt/downloads/?tab=branches
https://bitbucket.org/canofthings/openwrt/downloads/?tab=tags
https://bitbucket.org/canofthings/deployment/downloads/
https://bitbucket.org/canofthings/openwrt/src/master/
https://bitbucket.org/canofthings/openwrt/src/master/trunk/target/linux/x64/edge5x0/files/root/firmware/
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@bubbadestroy Thanks very very much, that help me a lot.
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@bubbadestroy Thanks for posting this! It looks like this has all of the things that were in the repository that was made private. Now we can hopefully continue development on this project.
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@youraveragehomelabber For those that are interested, after doing a detailed inspection of this board of the hardware layout and component choices the Velocloud boxes are based on the same refrence design as the ADI RCC-VE series, aka the Netgate SG-4880 etc. The CPU, RAM, debug port connector, bios chip socket, various support chips, power management, mini-PCI-e layous, (with the Velocloud 520 forcing the mPCI-e to the bottom due to the ethernet switch). The use nearly the same Corebios firmware.
In fact since ADI publishes the source code to their version corebios as they are supposed to, if you had a source to the Velocloud bios, it would be very enlightening to compare the source codes.
As noted in this thread there are tricks required when flashing bios to preserve the DMI stored data including board ID and serial number. The netgate firmware upgrade tool has to use these too.For me personally, fixing the freebsd kernel to add support for the phy and ethernet switch, and fixing the bios, is a cost effective option, versus spending money on newer hardware,
It's not a solution for everyone, but few enough people know bios, kernel hacking, etc.
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hi,
here we can find some refurbished Dell EMC SD-WAN Edge 620, for a very interesting price. But i don't know if they are "unlocked", they say in the description that "No DNOS Installed", and "Supports Native Linux OS provided by the VNF partners. Supports KVM or ESXi hypervisors".
so do you think that we can easily install pfsense on it ?EDIT:
on a deleted message in reddit someone said :Dell EMC SD-WAN Edge 604 is a C3758 CPU It uses the same Motherboard as the VEP-1445.
However if you change the OS, it will boot loop. You must install the BIOS from the VEP-1445 onto the SD WAN if you want your own OS.
To Flash the BIOS you need to first flash the Dell Recovery OS from the VEP-1445 to the eMMC of the SD-WAN. Once booted to the recovery OS you can then flash BIOS.
EDIT 2 :
look at that : https://www.etb-tech.com/dell-emc-vep1425-switch6-x-1gb-rj45-2-x-10gb-sfp-sw02212.htmlLicenses Installed : OPNsense 19.7.10.1 Installed
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