Unable to access web ui

josephborg07

Thanks for your reply. I've tried to connect through console and only got a black blank screen, and eventually prompts an error which prevents me from accessing the device through console too.
How can I access the pfsense device ?
I know that seems relatively stupid, however I'm still picking up on pfsense and familiarizing myself with linux.

Thanks in advance,

J

doktornotor

No. You remove the CF card from the Alix box and use a reader to write the image.

Gertjan

Just for info : "Windows" is not "MAC OS" is not "Linux" is not "FreeBSD".
pfSense has a FreeBSD kernel.

josephborg07

I resolved this by pressing enter when the blank console screen appeared. Doing so loaded the command line interface.

As lame as it sounds, I'm posting this with the hope to help beginners such as myself should they face such struggles.

Thanks for all your efforts to help out.
J

doktornotor

You resolved what by pressing enter? "page cannot be found"? Kindy unlikely…

josephborg07

When connecting through the console port, I was getting a blank black screen. When I pressed enter I was provided with the command line interface (still through console). From the console I then made the necessary changes which allowed me to provide myself with access to the web interface

doktornotor

Hmmm… and the original issue was exactly what? (No, not asking about the press Enter PEBKAC.)

josephborg07

I couldn't access the web interface for configuration.

doktornotor

I was trying to find out how did you solve that original issue, so that eventually this thread could be useful for someone. I guess time to give up.

edooze

@josephborg07:

When connecting through the console port, I was getting a blank black screen. When I pressed enter I was provided with the command line interface (still through console). From the console I then made the necessary changes which allowed me to provide myself with access to the web interface

I often find the same thing, that the console goes in to a 'screen-saving' mode and doesn't display anything. With pfSense and Linux in general, I typically use the arrow keys to wake a machine up, in the interest of avoiding submitting a command when I don't mean to (just in case, not like I leave half finished commands just lying around!).

setterm -blank 0
```will disable this in Linux (Ubuntu), but I can't find anything similar with pfSense myself.

Best of luck getting used to your new toys, it's well worth it in the long term.