Successful Install on Watchguard Firebox X700!
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Great tutorial. I had some major issues, however, during setup.
I installed from the live cd after putting the laptop drive into an old laptop. I then booted from it and cu (Linux serial console tool) repeatedly disconnected from the serial. This (I guess) missed the mount point option and made the boot fail with an invalid mount. I eventually ended up booting back into the live cd and modifying fstab from the terminal there. Once I did this, the box booted ok but cu continued to disconnect. I connected it up to my other machine and used puTTY, which didn't have such problems.
Moral of the story is, don't use cu.
Regardless, it's working fine now. Next step is to look at swapping out the CPU and upgrading the memory.
Phil
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(My P3 is a PIII-S SL6BY, 1400Mhz, 512KB, 133Mhz Bus, 1,45V)
EDIT: My Board is a WG-X66 AV1.0B
I got an other P3 CPU stepping:
PIII-S SL5XL http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL5XL
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Has anyone modified their x700 to include wireless? If so, how did you route the antenna wire and where did you place the antennas on the box itself?
Im still looking for pictures of a hard drive mounted in the drive sled on an x700. Dont want to us CF because Id like to use packages.
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Is anyone else having issues with correct memory being recognized? Im still at 256meg even with a 512meg pc133 dimm installed.
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If you are having problems with watchdog timeouts on these devices, that problem may have been resolved, but we need testers.
Please see http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,15669.0.html
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Is anyone else having issues with correct memory being recognized? Im still at 256meg even with a 512meg pc133 dimm installed.
You need double side dimm to fix that problem.
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So which out of this list would qualify?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010170147%201052107967%201052407863%20105233066&name=512MB%20-%201GB
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Anyone?
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More info on the keyboard connector
This place isnt far from me. http://www.cablesandconnectors.comThey have on this page http://www.cablesandconnectors.com/PIX/CC-085.pdf item BRK-PS2-2x4 which I believe is the exact part if you dont want to go through the hassle of building a cable yourself. If you feel like building one.. well, they have the parts for that too.
Or you can do it with spare parts if you have them. I just used one of many old keyboards, hacked off the connector, and determined pinouts by testing continuity from the bottom side of an old motherboard and the (now removed) ps2 connector from the keyboard. Then I used a spare USB motherboard -> pci plate (for additional external USB connections on the back of your PC). I lopped the motherboard connector off of that, cleaned up any extraneous wires, and spliced the keyboard wires to the correct usb wires.
Awesome ASCII art pinout below:
1 NC \_ . ._/ . . . . / | | \ / | | 4 / | NC / 3 2 NC 1__. .__/ 2__. | .__NC 3__. .__4 Braided bare wire, which is connected to the outer ring on a male PS2 connector, is chassis ground. NC == no connectionAnd this is how you turn a perfectly good PS2 keyboard into a perfectly good watchguard-only keyboard :)
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Ok I have the cf running fine but am trying to put the full version on a laptop hd via the 44 pin connector. I booted to a cd and installed it to a 30gb laptop drive. I put it in the fb and I can never get anything to come up on the console with the drive installed. Is there any trick to it that I must do to even get anything on the console?
Andy
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Ok I have the cf running fine but am trying to put the full version on a laptop hd via the 44 pin connector. I booted to a cd and installed it to a 30gb laptop drive. I put it in the fb and I can never get anything to come up on the console with the drive installed. Is there any trick to it that I must do to even get anything on the console?
Andy
I was unable to boot anything but the CF using the IDE connectors until I had my rigged keyboard hooked up. that enabled me to get into the bios or select the boot menu option on boot. Until I could do that, all I got was a boot error on the LCD display and the POST staring at me on the monitor until I rebooted. I suspect that this is where you are at right now.
On a side note, does anyone know why I have to specify black as the color when I post here? If I don't, my posts are invisible white text on preview(maybe on posting, too, I don't know)…
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I figured it out, after installing to the hd I had to go into the interface and turn the serial console on. Once I did that i was able to see what was happening and I followed the first post to fix the boot issue.
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Ok I have the cf running fine but am trying to put the full version on a laptop hd via the 44 pin connector. I booted to a cd and installed it to a 30gb laptop drive. I put it in the fb and I can never get anything to come up on the console with the drive installed. Is there any trick to it that I must do to even get anything on the console?
Andy
How are you mounting the harddrive in the case? I sure would like to find the factory made caddy.
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How are you mounting the harddrive in the case? I sure would like to find the factory made caddy.
I took the existing mounting plate out and cut the back piece off, basically to not have to get a longer cable and try to route it. I then drilled 2 holes at the back of the plate and put the drive on/attached with the 2 screws. It's not pretty but was the quickest fix I found at the time. I do wish there was a better caddy for it but just made what I had work. Drive isn't going anywhere and seems to be working just fine so far.
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Here's a link to a demanufacturing doc with some good pictures for reference.
http://www.watchguard.com/docs/corporate/wg_coreDe-MFR_instructions.pdfAs for the official hard drive upgrade from Watchguard, I don't think they ever came out with it.
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I scrapped the whole hard drive idea and installed the full version on a 4gig Hitachi microdrive on the cf slot.
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Is that solid state flash or are you talking about one of those tiny hard disks with the moving parts just like a full size HD?
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Is that solid state flash or are you talking about one of those tiny hard disks with the moving parts just like a full size HD?
Identical to this:
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With squid, squidguard, and snort all loaded, Im only using 8% of my storage on the microdrive.
I only have 256meg of memory right now, but a 512 stick is on the way to help with 69% memory usage.
I removed the crypto card, and instead installed a wireless card in the mini-pci slot, then drilled a hole in the back of the x700 to mount my external antenna connector
