What is this board??? Help!
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@stephenw10 thank you sir. I'll stay OT with pfsense in mind for sure. I do have the network gateway box the OP started up this project for this is such a nifty piece of hardware, it would make one hell of a little development server for a home IoT lab.
If there's anything I can do to upload from hardware let me know. But I think at this point vmware should have the entire device code virtually available to tool with on their cloud api dashboard no?P.S.
Glad I you are active on this, thought I was going to get lost here:https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=bios+intel&s=stars&type=Repositories -
VMware may have opensourced some of it. But the boot output we had previously looked like it was running OpenWRT anyway. So that code may already be available. It doesn't help is much in FreeBSD though as it Linux based, unless you're able to port that.
Steve
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I cannot get the USB to show as a COM for connection, how did you guys get this to happen?
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I don't have one of these but what does it show up as?
How are you trying?
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@stephenw10 looking at the picture above posted before I tried USB B to USB B, I also tried USB B to USB C.
I can do normal SSH but the command to flash to the other image is normally in the start up process. Not sure if I know of a way to do it via SSH and not "console" a bit out of my skill level.
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As I say I don't have one to test but I assume the serial console is the port on the side which I expect to be mini-USB B but I can't see that closely in the pictures. Exactly like most of our own hardware is.
Steve
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@stephenw10 There is no console port on the unit, usb rj45 or anything, just USB marked ports, REJ45 and SFP.
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In the photo above there is a cable connected to a port on the side. That looks like it's the console. It might be an internal port with no hole in the case....
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@stephenw10 Good eye!!! the blue on the bottom right got me. I did not see the black one on the left, I see it on the MB also now.
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@ryno5514 Got it loaded.
The unit has 6 ETH Ports and looks like the "LAN" ports are Intel pro100 each has its own mac. However, I cannot get any other ports but #4 to show
Network interface mismatch -- Running interface assignment option.
Valid interfaces are:
igb0 f0:8e:dbXXXX (down) Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version
Do VLANs need to be set up first?
If VLANs will not be used, or only for optional interfaces, it is typical to
say no here and use the webConfigurator to configure VLANs later, if required.Should VLANs be set up now [y|n]?
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Yes, that's expected with the default igb driver. It fails to attach to three of the NICs there probably because it doesn't recognisce the connected PHY.
Steve
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@ryno5514 This is from the official device manual, maybe something useful in there to help your PFSense on velocloud edge500 build.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-SD-WAN/3.3/velocloud-admin-guide-33/GUID-325E1415-EF99-4B22-902F-DA64CD5D8473.html
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That is a link to 'Enable SR-IOV on KVM'. It seems completely unrelated.
I doubt they would ever put up an actual service manual.
Steve
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@stephenw10 I just loaded 2.5
freebsd-version
12.2-STABLEStill has the same issue so going to tinker a little more
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@ryno5514 said in What is this board??? Help!:
@stephenw10 I just loaded 2.5
freebsd-version
12.2-STABLEStill has the same issue so going to tinker a little more
Tried the following also
cat /boot/loader.conf
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="1000000"
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop="524288"
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9="524288"
boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
console="comconsole,vidconsole"
comconsole_speed="115200"
autoboot_delay="3"
hw.hn.vf_transparent="0"
hw.hn.use_if_start="1"
legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1
net.link.ifqmaxlen=2048
net.isr.defaultqlimit=2048
net.inet.tcp.soreceive_stream=1
net.inet.tcp.syncache.hashsize=1024
net.inet.tcp.syncache.bucketlimit=100
net.pf.source_nodes_hashsize=1048576echo "dev.igb.0.enable_lro=0" >>/etc/sysctl.conf
echo "dev.igb.1.enable_lro=0" >>/etc/sysctl.conf
echo "dev.igb.2.enable_lro=0" >>/etc/sysctl.conf
echo "dev.igb.3.enable_lro=0" >>/etc/sysctl.conf -
I purchased a mSATA-PCIe-Mini-VGA-Adapter-Cable..
Plugged it into the Msata port on the bottom of the device.. put a vga wire to screen plugged in router hit keyboard button f12, enter, f2, Q, F and escape i belive..https://www.ebay.com/itm/IEI-Add-on-Video-Graphic-Card-IGCME-1300-R10-mSATA-PCIe-Mini-VGA-Adapter-Cable/353020687468
Ive gotten visual display to show bios options on monitor! I'll update any thing else. But yes, VGA from Msata is working on bottom pcie port.
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@bubbadestroy said in What is this board??? Help!:
Ive gotten visual display to show bios options on monitor! I'll update any thing else. But yes, VGA from Msata is working on bottom pcie port.
Thats a great find, I might pull the Wifi off and do that myself. I am going to put an LTE radio for the other slot but having video out would be nice.
Still trying to get this driver to work myself.
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Interesting. Are there any options for the NICs or switch?
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I think this is what you're asking
igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0xf0a0-0xf0bf mem 0xdfe60000-0xdfe7ffff,0xdff2c000-0xdff2ffff irq 20 at device 20.0 on pci0
igb0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igb0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igb0 attach returned 6
igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0xf080-0xf09f mem 0xdfe40000-0xdfe5ffff,0xdff28000-0xdff2bfff irq 21 at device 20.1 on pci0
igb0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igb0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igb0 attach returned 6
igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0xf060-0xf07f mem 0xdfe20000-0xdfe3ffff,0xdff24000-0xdff27fff irq 22 at device 20.2 on pci0
igb0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igb0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igb0 attach returned 6
igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0xf040-0xf05f mem 0xdfe00000-0xdfe1ffff,0xdff20000-0xdff23fff irq 23 at device 20.3 on pci0
igb0: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
igb0: Using 2 RX queues 2 TX queues
igb0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 3 vectors
igb0: Ethernet address: f0:8e:db
igb0: netmap queues/slots: TX 2/1024, RX 2/1024 -
TLDR: C.E. USB bootable PFSense totally loads (in second USB port for me) and displays with that mpcie vga adapter plugged in to a vga monitor.
That particular seller accepted an offer of
ITEM PRICE:US $20.00Other things I wondered was maybe a displaylink, but for sure that mpcie card work ed out well. I ended up relocating the mpcie vga adapter card top of the box.. carved a portal for the wire to stick out of in the roof of chassis housing... then relocated the wifi card that is in the primary slot to the secondary slot on the bottom (above the ami flash memory) . It reaches just-so without rewiring or modding.
So far, on the edge500 at least, it seems the AMI bios picks it up just fine when using a boot-able USB ISO image of any type (Linux 2.6 around about or above i assume)
Whatever image that would have normally been natively boot-able on a machine for Intel atom c2000-3000 | AMI Bios compatible... seems to load with display adapter in either mpcie slot... however, I think having serial usb in has craused it to halt the boot order due to default bios settings.. I could use a hand optimizing the bios settings for atom.
Photos to come sooner or later if interested.
