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      mppkll
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      I wanted to give you guys an up date as to where I stand, there will be a significant pause ( couple months) in my work on this because of life stuff.

      So far this is the status of things:

      LCD Back-light / LCD:  Working: no changes where needed.

      LED: not working yet:  I have the GPIO system up but need to put some time into tracing the PCB traces to/from the LED pins on the LCD jack and figure out what pin# controls them. I don't want to just turn on/off GP pins because most of them have a dual purposes, so I need to trace the hardware.  The IT8718F has a LED flashing system that may be usable to provide the flashing as well as just on/off depending on what GP Pin# the LEDs are on.  I will focus on this once the fans are all working.

      FANS:  Partially working: I can read the speed from 4 of the 5 fans (3 processor fans-can read, 1 case fan-can read, 1 power supply fan-can't read) , but so far can only adjust 1 (case fan) of the 5.  I'm sure that I will get 4 of the 5 working totally as they are controlled by the IT8717F but the power supply fan will not be controllable.

      TEMP: Working: I can read all of the temp and voltage registers.

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        DaveinTN
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        I'm trying to get WGXepc to work in an XTM 800 series, have you had a chance to update it yet?

        Can't even hear my self think with these fans running so high.

        Thanks,

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          mppkll
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          No, I have not had a chance to get back at this, I moved and my workshop/office is not yet painted and still in boxes.  I also had to put up another pfsense to run a VPN since the only ISP I could get was Comcast  >:(  In reality because of the things that I need to get done before snow flys on the new property I might not get back to this until winter.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            @daveinfla:

            Can't even hear my self think with these fans running so high.

            Yeah the fans are loud. Like excessively so!

            You think all the fans are addressable by the SIO chip?

            Steve

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              DaveinTN
              last edited by

              I have access to other XTM models, actually probably older models too.

              Is there a list of models that are fully supported by WGXepc?

              Thanks,

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                The X-Core, X-Peak, X-Core/Peak-e and XTM5. Though the XTM5 only has one of it's fans easily addressable.

                The SuperIO chip is completely different in the XTM8 as detailed here which makes it more challenging than simply copy/pasting with some new values unfortunately.

                Steve

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                  DaveinTN
                  last edited by

                  So if I want to be able to control the LCD and ALL of the internal fans I need to grab a X-Core, X-Peak, or X-Core/Peak-e model and not an XTM5 or 8 at this point?

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                    meph
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                    Anybody have a backup of the watchguard OS available? I bought this watchguard off ebay and it had pfsense installed… i would like to restore it. any help would be appreciated.

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                      meph
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                      Or the original firmware so i can get it to recovery mode?

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                        DeLorean
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                        @meph:

                        Anybody have a backup of the watchguard OS available? I bought this watchguard off ebay and it had pfsense installed… i would like to restore it. any help would be appreciated.

                        You have got PM  :)

                        Grtz
                        DeLorean

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                          meph
                          last edited by

                          @DeLorean:

                          @meph:

                          Anybody have a backup of the watchguard OS available? I bought this watchguard off ebay and it had pfsense installed… i would like to restore it. any help would be appreciated.

                          You have got PM  :)

                          Grtz
                          DeLorean

                          Thanks… let me give it a try.

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                            DeLorean
                            last edited by

                            Did it work ?

                            Grtz
                            DeLorean

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                              BrettMerrick
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                              Hi,

                              Found this thread extremely helpful, thanks to all who have contributed!

                              I was able to install 2.4.1 on to the 1GB CF card by using the VGA hack and putting the installer image on a sata drive. I did have to plug the CF in shortly after boot though so it booted from the sata drive first…

                              I also had to manually partition the drive as it complained that it wasn't a full 1GB.

                              I found than once installed I could enable the serial console by modifying /boot/device.hints and switching the IRQ and Address for the uart:

                              hint.uart.0.at="isa"
                              hint.uart.0.port="0x2F8"
                              hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
                              hint.uart.0.irq="3"
                              hint.uart.1.at="isa"
                              hint.uart.1.port="0x3F8"
                              hint.uart.1.irq="4"

                              I got the LCD working by simply installing the LCDproc package and configuring it for Parallel port 1 and Watchguard Firebox with SDEC. I made a few other setting changes to my preference, including setting the backlight to on, however it seems to switch off again after a short time.

                              Now I just need to sort the noise! - Anything I can help with mppkll?

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                                DaveinTN
                                last edited by

                                Any updates to the program to control the fans and LCD on the XTM 8 Series?

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                                  DaveinTN
                                  last edited by

                                  I'm looking at selling this XTM 850 on eBay and need to know if there's a way to return the internal hard drive back to factory defaults?

                                  I have the SD card back to factory and it boots to the OS, however during testing of pFsense I used the drive. Is there a way to return for use with the embedded OS before I sell it?

                                  Thanks,

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                                    Scorch95
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                                    If I’m not mistaken, which I often am, I do not believe these shipped with internal drives other than the CF.

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                                      DaveinTN
                                      last edited by

                                      Mine had the 2GB CF card installed and a 250GB SATA hard drive mounted in a factory mount and connected.

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                                        Scorch95
                                        last edited by

                                        I stand corrected. Do you have a picture of the mount?

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          @daveinfla:

                                          Mine had the 2GB CF card installed and a 250GB SATA hard drive mounted in a factory mount and connected.

                                          Ooo. Fancy.  ;)

                                          Probably for use as a cache. I'm not aware of any models based on the XTM8 like the old SSL models were. They came with a HD instead of CF.

                                          Steve

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by 

                                            2.3.5-RELEASE][admin@xtm8.stevew.lan]/root: ./WGXepc64 
Found Firebox XTM8
WGXepc Version 1.3 5/3/2018 stephenw10
WGXepc can accept two arguments:
 -f (CPU fan) will return the current and minimum fan speed or if followed
    by a number in hex, 00-FF, will set it.
 -f2 (System fan) will return the current and minimum fan speed or if followed
    by a number in hex, 00-FF, will set it.
 -l (led) will set the arm/disarm led state to the second argument:
    red, green, red_flash, green_flash, red_flash_fast, green_flash_fast, off
 -b (backlight) will set the lcd backlight to the second argument:
    on or off. Do not use with LCD driver.
 -t (temperature) shows the current CPU temperature reported by the
    SuperIO chip. X-e box only.
Not all functions are supported by all models
[2.3.5-RELEASE][admin@xtm8.stevew.lan]/root: ./WGXepc64 -f
Found Firebox XTM8
Current CPU fanspeed is ???, minimum is 3f
[2.3.5-RELEASE][admin@xtm8.stevew.lan]/root: ./WGXepc64 -f 37
Found Firebox XTM8
IT87 Fanctl set to sane defaults
Minimum CPU fanspeed set to 37
[2.3.5-RELEASE][admin@xtm8.stevew.lan]/root: ./WGXepc64 -f2
Found Firebox XTM8
Current System fanspeed is ???, minimum is 38
[2.3.5-RELEASE][admin@xtm8.stevew.lan]/root: ./WGXepc64 -l green_flash_fast
Found Firebox XTM8
IT87 GPIO pins configured
[2.3.5-RELEASE][admin@xtm8.stevew.lan]/root: ./WGXepc64 -l green
Found Firebox XTM8

                                            64bit binary. Source.

                                            ;)

                                            Steve

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