Watchguard XTM 5 Series
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@t-rexky said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:
@MadDogDean As far as I am concerned, I would be happy if you donated the Bounty to a good cause
Same here.
The xtm5 can run 2.4.4 though. It can even run a full install from CF if needs be.
You should be able to make it boot from USB to do the install by just disabling the "always boot from CF" option in the BIOS. But if not another option is to put the installer on CF, boot that and install to SATA.However you should be able to stay on 2.3.X by going to System > Firmware and selecting 2.3.X security and errata only. You might have to select that a few times until the repo is set to 2.3.X.
Installing 2.4.4 is way to go though.
Steve
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@stephenw10 @t-rexky
Thanks for your help guys. We are always donating and helping the unfortunates here in the Philippines. I'll load up the car and take a few local kids to town for lunch & ice cream.As for aggregating, we have 2 incoming accounts from our local WISP. They use Canopy Radios and have it configures that the same gateway is used on all accounts. Aggregating won;'t work with this. Is there a way around it, or should I just get a simple wired router to act as a NAT?
Meanwhile, let's dig into 800 posts and get this pfSense going.
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Unless you can do some form of link aggregating at the ISP end like an actual LAGG or ML-PPP then NATing one connection is the only real choice there.
Steve
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I have an XTM 505.
I can see the boot on the console.
I can get into the bios.
I can start and install PFSense from the CF card.
However if I Install Freedos on the CF it will show the boot and that's it. Will not display anything else after that. It stays on the screen and after that nothing. I know Freedos has booted, because I can hear 3 beeps after the screen stays on the boot screen. But I cant see any response or anything else.
Anyone had this problem before? Was anyone able to solve this?
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FreeDOS will display at 9600bps by default.
But why are you booting FreeDOS? It's not required to run pfSense on there.Steve
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@stephenw10 said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:
FreeDOS will display at 9600bps by default.
But why are you booting FreeDOS? It's not required to run pfSense on there.Steve
I know, but I want to install something else on the box since my cpu will not support the newer versions. I am thinking about running a different fw distro on it with open vpn.
I need freedos to flash the bios so I can boot of the usb :-)
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You don't, you can flash the BIOS using flashrom directly from pfSense.
We have committed to supporting the 2.4.X branch for a year after 2.5 is released though. You have long while yet before that becomes an issue.
Steve
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@stephenw10
I have changed to 9600bps and it still wiont show anything. I cant even see the bios or the boot up screen on 9600. Any other idea?
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Do you see the BIOS setup at 115200? If not then you have a problem with the console cable or terminal setup. You should see some output there even with no boot media.
Steve
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@stephenw10
Yes, i can see everything on 115200. Bios, Boot, PFSense installer and so on...
Only if I put a live cd on the cf, or freedos or anything else but pfsense i see no output after the boot screen is completed. My cable is good. -
Once it has booted up, unplug your console cable and plug it back in. That usually works for me for some reason.
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@fffrank
Well That did not work. :) Anything else? -
What FreeDOS image are you using exactly?
Still unclear why it's a problem though.
@tibby said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:
I need freedos to flash the bios so I can boot of the usb :-)
This is incorrect. So unless you want to actually run FreeDOS then just flash the BIOS from pfSense.
Steve
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@dlucas46 said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:
Hi all,
For those of you with Xeons that would like coretemp to report the correct temp, you can try this recompiled coretemp module.
I have set the TJMax value to 70c
Remove the png extension and upload to /boot/coretemp2.ko
Chmod 755 coretemp2.ko
In your /boot/loader.conf.local add the following:
coretemp2_load="YES"
Reboot.
You should now have a correct temperature reading. I did this several months ago and its been working fine.
If your CPU is in the same family as L5420 this should also work for you.
Is it possible to re-upload this file or is there another way I can get it?
Thank you!
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@travishauch here you go: coretemp2.zip
Extract the file and upload to /boot/modules as described in previous post.
You do not need to rename the file this time. -
@dlucas46 said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:
@travishauch here you go: coretemp2.zip
Extract the file and upload to /boot/modules as described in previous post.
You do not need to rename the file this time.Thank you so much! You are a life saver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Apologies for digging up an old thread.
Recently obtained a XTM510 and it at the moment is running pretty flawlessly with Debian, I've tried everything under the sun and kept coming back to Debian.
Is there any way to get this boxes "ARM" led rocking while under Debian? (probably the wrong place to ask) I have the bios that is way up there in this topic, is there any way I can modify it so that it doesn't say Pfsense1.8 on bootup as its not running that?
I have googled about for weeks to try and get the LED working on the front to no avail. By the seems, it looks like I'd need a windows OS on the box to mod the bios..?
Again, apologies if this is the wrong place, just would like some help, as this seems to be the only place with the most information on it.
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The Arm/Disarm LED is connected to the SuperIO chip so there may well be an easier way to do it in Debian.
The modified BIOS sets up the GPIO pins correctly in order to set it to red at that point but the program checks for that and sets it if it has not been.
https://github.com/stephenw10/WGXepc/blob/7f688371751925586d047bc8a2b13bc03e92b64b/WGXepc.c#L1117So, enable GPIO2 as a GPIO, most of those pins are multifuction.
Set bits 4 and 5 as output.
Set the bits for red, green or off.Steve
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@stephenw10 I have tried to compile that script to no avail, keeps telling me that there is files missing, I have googled about for those files, still with no avail. In regards to the bios, would I back it up, edit the bios backup on a different PC and then reflash it back to the box?
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Yeah I've never tried to use it under Linux. But you should be able to use the data there to set the SuperIO chip some other way. It would not surprise me to find that Linux already has a utiltiy to do it.
Yes, editing the bios and reflashing it is what I did. That's always a risk!Steve
