WatchGuard models

chpalmer

so if its the wrong cable it wont boot into freedos or beep 3 times at all ?

I'm not 100% sure the cable is null but i thought it just wasnt booting of the cf card.

Aaron

Are you seeing the BIOS screen come up?

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox Look under General Advice

Ill pull one of my boxes out of the cupboard later and see if I hear it beep. My only null modem cable was borrowed and never returned so I need to purchase one myself.

aaron.picksley

naaa, i forgot to grab that startech cable from work today :o but the board is out at the moment anyway gunna solder a usb port on tonight.

I will do, i was on that page the other day actually full of good info.

I was looking on wiki and there are 3 types of wiring for handshake null serial cables lol looks like i might have to buy a few.

I'm going to get some x1 pcie ribbons, x1 pci graphics card, x1 pcie sata controller sil3132 chipset for freebsd ? and a ssd.

I've already put 2gb ram in and 2.27ghz cpu usual mods. did you try the freedos bios image to see if it booted without the serial hooked up with putty?

Aaron