Still no SG-1100 2.5 development builds?
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I'm a bit worried about the movement of development from pfsense to TNSR. I've been running 2.5 dev builds on x86 hardware for a year but the SG-1100, which is provided by netgate, still doesn't have 2.5 builds.
Also is the AES acceleration, which was advertised as an upcoming feature when this hardware was first introduced, working yet?
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See here:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/151296/update-sg-1100-crypto-hardware/13 -
@bradsm87 said in Still no SG-1100 2.5 development builds?:
I've been running 2.5 dev builds on x86 hardware for a year but the SG-1100, which is provided by netgate, still doesn't have 2.5 builds.
There is no vast conspiracy here. It's just that there are some issues with pfSense on FreeBSD stable/12 on that platform we haven't worked through yet. We'll get to it well before release, but there are other things ahead of it in the queue (for pfSense and, yes, TNSR)
Also is the AES acceleration, which was advertised as an upcoming feature when this hardware was first introduced, working yet?
It's already in 2.4.5-p1, you just have to enable it since it's disabled by default and has not yet seen a lot of real-world testing. We're still working on expanding its capabilities for the future, though.
It's under System > Advanced, Misc tab. In Cryptographic Hardware, pick the SafeXcel and BSD Crypto Device option.
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Any 2.5 builds for SG-1100 I can try yet? It's been about 18 months since I've been using 2.5 happily on x86.
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I guess that's a no.
Anyone in Australia want to buy an SG-1100?
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I just bought a Qotom Q515G6 to replace my SG-1100 and running great on the latest 2.5 build. SG-1100 seems like a bit of a dead end platform sadly.
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@stephenw10 I got your notification before the post was deleted. The 2.5 Dev coming up on the update list must be quite new. I ran it and got back in to the UI. I then factory reset it from the UI but it hasn't come back up after 30 minutes haha. I'll find a micro USB cable when I get a chance and see what it's doing on the serial console.
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Yeah, sorry I removed it because I tested it and found an issue. Hopefully should be solved soon.
2.5 actually runs fine on the SG-1100 it's the upgrade process itself that currently has a problem.Steve
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I plugged a USB cable in and rebooted it. Itgets to a certain point then spits this out thousands of times over:
Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /etc/inc/config.lib.inc on line 383
Do you have a 2.5 DEV SG-1100 factory image I can apply to it?
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Not directly. If you open a ticket with us we can get you factory 2.4.5p1 image and you can upgrade again. However I would recommend not doing that until we get this upgrade issue resolved.
https://go.netgate.com/Steve
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Yep I logged a ticket for the recovery media saying no valid serial number found and aborting. I asked for a 2.4.5-p1 image in the ticket too. Cheers.
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It's just a test unit now so I thought I'd keep playing with it.
2.5 upgrades fine.
Reset defaults works fine after 2.5 upgrade
First wizard config leads back to thousands of these after the reboot:Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /etc/inc/config.lib.inc on line 383
Is that they problem you are aware of or a different one?
Is there a workaround I can apply?
Cheers
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You upgraded before you ran the initial config wizard?
That same error was reported here but we were unable to replicate it at that time:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10702Steve
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@stephenw10 yes I upgraded before the wizard and it was successful. I reset factory defaults after that and it was OK then too. That error stopping a successful boot only happened after running the wizard on 2.5.
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Hmm, may have replicated that.
When a ran the wizard on an upgraded box it caused it to panic and reboot. I didn't hit the exact error you did but I suspect you are just seeing a filesystem error from the forced reboot.
Digging...
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I got pretty far by avoiding the wizard. Did all my config until deleting an unused VLAN which reset the system. First time it came back up. Second time it went back to the exact same cannot use a scalar on line 383 error.
I unassigned 4092 from OPT1 and assigned 4091 to it, changed OPT1's VID to 4091, removed 4092 from the VLAN list for the switch all fine. When it cane to removing the now unused 4092 under interfaces:VLANs, it's at that point it hard resets. Next time I'll leave it there.
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You will probably need to add back your serial number and MAC address to uboot since you went through the upgrade process unfortunately. Both of which are on the label on the SG-1100.
At the console interrupt uboot to reach the
Marvell>>prompt, then run:setenv serial NTGXXXXXXXXXX
setenv ethaddr f0:ad:4e:xx:xx:xx
saveenv
resetThat should then allow you run the recovery image and display the dashboard correctly.
That won't help with the interface removal which appears to be unrelated.Steve
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@stephenw10 yep I got those instructions in the ticket I logged and have been doing that before every recovery. Thanks.
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Ah, cool!
Well for the benefit of anyone else hitting this before we get a fix in.
