Intel D201GLY2
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There is no other way to do it? I would like to make an article on my website on how to install a free enterprise-grade firewall, but this is too complicated for a regular user. The reason why I chose this motherboard is because it is the cheapest option outthere, and it is fanless.
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This has been discussed in depth here. Some devices do panic if the console is set to vga and the device only has a serial console (pcengines wraps for example). That's why the embedded images have no video support. There are ways to do full installs on cf-cards but it's not recommended nor supported due to several reasons. Please search the forum for further details.
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As I have understood, in the embedded version of PFsense packages are not inclued, I would like to use Squid for example, and that is why I need to do a full install. Has anybody been able to perform a normal full install on this motherboard? and tell me what to do?
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As I have understood, in the embedded version of PFsense packages are not inclued, I would like to use Squid for example, and that is why I need to do a full install. Has anybody been able to perform a normal full install on this motherboard? and tell me what to do?
Why don't you just use a hard drive and install the full version. Squid will kill a CF card in no time with its cache. You would only need to hook up a cdrom drive for the install process.
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A hard drive would make me consume a lot more electricity, plus it is way more expensive than a CF card. A regular hard drive will not fit inside the case, I would have to buy a laptop hard drive. that is not an option, sorry. I want squid to regulate access not really for the cache part.
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A hard drive would make me consume a lot more electricity, plus it is way more expensive than a CF card. A regular hard drive will not fit inside the case, I would have to buy a laptop hard drive. that is not an option, sorry. I want squid to regulate access not really for the cache part.
Well then your own your own as far as getting it all installed and working as packages on embedded installs are not supported. As far as the power consumption if it was that big of a deal you should have gone with a WRAP / ALIX board. I google'd your board and saw reports of it drawing 43 watts vs 5 watts for a ALIX board.
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A hard drive would make me consume a lot more electricity, plus it is way more expensive than a CF card. A regular hard drive will not fit inside the case, I would have to buy a laptop hard drive. that is not an option, sorry. I want squid to regulate access not really for the cache part.
I think there was somewhere a thread abouthow to setup a RAM-Drive for the swap partition.
Well you'd need lot's of RAM (2GB???) to use this efficiently, and i'm not sure if it's less expensive than just to use a microdrive (Harddisk in CF format)
A quick google found me microdrives for about 30$
( http://www.pricewatch.com/flash_card_memory/microdrive.htm ) -
A hard drive would make me consume a lot more electricity, plus it is way more expensive than a CF card. A regular hard drive will not fit inside the case, I would have to buy a laptop hard drive. that is not an option, sorry. I want squid to regulate access not really for the cache part.
Have you considered the use of a microdrive (CF format hard disk)? That's how I use pfSense and it works fine - just search the forum as some brands don't work.
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Microdrive has moving parts and is less reliable than a CF card. I would have used an ALIX but 1) I did not know this at the time 2) ALIX Boards seem to be quite expensive compared to the $65 that this cost me including CPU. 3) I cannot go to Alix at this time because I allready made this investment.
There has to be somebody in the world that has gotten this motheroard to work with PFSense. Its prbably something simple.
- I can intall FreeNAS with NO PROBLEMS, and freenas is almost the same as m0n0wall (OS wise)
- It installs Smoothwall perfectly (Linux)
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From your post the embedded install worked fine. It just redirects the console to the serial port. You just need to purchase a null modem cable and use a terminal emulator program to see the console. Putty will work for this or you can use the Windows HyperTerminal program.
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Hi, I am actually trying that right this minute!!!
But I cannot get it to work, I am using Hyper Terminal and connecting using COM1 and it makes a connection but all I see on the screen is the blinking underscore, is there anything I am missing? maybe different Baud Rate etc?
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Hi, I am actually trying that right this minute!!!
But I cannot get it to work, I am using Hyper Terminal and connecting using COM1 and it makes a connection but all I see on the screen is the blinking underscore, is there anything I am missing? maybe different Baud Rate etc?
The baud rate should be 9600 by default. Try setting Hyper Terminal to that. Once you connect hit enter and see if the console screen menu shows up.
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Ok I spoke too soon I had the serial port disabled on the BIOS sorry about that. I got the Null Modem - Com1 thing to work… However it starts booting and freezes at the following point in the booting process....
pcib2: <pci-pci bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0
pci2: <pci bus="">on pcib2Any ideas of what might be going on?</pci></pci-pci>
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No error messages or kernel panics? What card do you have in that PCI slot? Trying pulling the card and see if it boots.
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I have a 2GB TRANSCEND CF card 133x. I am not sure what you mean by pulling the card, if I boot without the card it is not going to go anywhere. Now I can boot perfectly fine with a bootable CD if that is what you want to know.
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I meant what PCI card do you have in PCI slot 2? I figure you have an additional NIC card since that board only has one on-board NIC. Normally after it shows pci2: … it will show the card on that slot. Maybe it is having a problem with whatever card it is.
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I had the good ol' 3COM 905b… I just pulled it out and booted.
Same thing...
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I have no idea then. You might try playing with the BIOS settings.
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:'( I don't want to give up, but I am going to have to for now. I have allready played with the BIOS settings, i've virtually disabled anything unessesary, like the SATA controllers, parallel port, etc. and Nothing.
PFsense creators if you are reading this… This is a great board for PFsense, it is the cheapest new Mini-ITX board outthere and it is fanless. It is also a very popular board due to its price, I think it will be of interest for you guys if you can get PFsense to work with it, I am willing to help you out in testing. :'(
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This is more of a FreeBSD issue than a pfSense issue. Try loading FreeBSD and see if it boots. There are high chances it will hang at the same point.
