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Hi guys,

i will share my experience to you.
I spend a lot of time fiddling around for my good "old" LEX UNO based Securepoint firewall.
It has 4GB ram and 64bit CPU. So i thought good for opnsens.
Ok latest bios was from 2012 an no chance to get new one.
These box should be a replacement for my very old LEX UNO 32bit box with pfsense.
My first attempts writing an image to my USB-Stick where bad. I tried rufus and etcher.
Always the same "checksum error" on booting. It looks like both do something with the  partition table.
So then i tried to remove the 8GB SSD out of the Box into e SATA USB adapter.
Booted from CD on another PC wit CD-Drive. Installed opensens on the SSD with MBR partition.
Than put it back in the Box. Finger cross. It boots up.
Everything was ok till i updated to 20.1.7. -> total mess.
I decided to do a fresh install again.
Now i tried another way ,i used USB Image Tool 1.76 fom http://www.alexpage.de
And surprise i was able to boot from my USB-Stick. (so now i put it in my safe  ;D)
I tried the same with pfsense, but no chance. But anyway. This is not really an issue 8)
I will use opnsense because pfsense does not really support foreign hardware.
Also they decided to only support hardware encryption from 2.5 on. This is a big no go.
At the moment i stuck in opnsense with WIFI configuration. This was impossible for me to configure via WEBGUI. Always a lot of php errors. See my Post 79304. Also some entries are not editable because there are to small or content is missing. Also it is not possibel to assign a ath0_wlan0 addapter to an interface. It's not select able. Only the cable ports a visible.

If someone has a idea for this issue. Let me know.

Thanks

During installation i was able to assign ath0_wlan0 to opt2.
On the web gui configured the wifi settings.
After saving all settings are gone and the interface looks like a normal cable.
All WiFi related setting are missing.
I tried to delete the interface and assign it new.
But i can' select ath0_wlan0 or ath0 i only see reX (the cables)
I tried to create a new wlanx at ath0 but this gives a error that my device doesn't support this.
This could not be because i can assing ath0_wlan0 via console.
There must something wrong with the webgui.

Here some errors
[30-May-2020 20:33:59 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'wep' in /usr/local/www/interfaces.php on line 525
[30-May-2020 20:34:07 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'wep' in /usr/local/www/interfaces.php on line 525
[30-May-2020 20:34:13 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'wep' in /usr/local/www/interfaces.php on line 525

In Interfaces: Assignments i can't see ath0_wlan0 but during installation i was able to assign ath0_wlan0 to opt2.

The Adapter seems ok

ath0:  mem 0xfdaf0000-0xfdafffff irq 24 at device 0.0 on pci1
ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams
ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0

Also i have tested the wifi Adapter in pfsense 2.4.5 there is no problem to assign and use the WiFi.

can sombody help ?

Sorry can't provide you with chrashlogs. because the firewall will not boot anymore.
So i switched back to my old CF-Card with a booting pfsense 2.3.1
At the moment i have not the time for investigating.
My intension was to go to opnsense because pfsense will not support i386 and NANOBSD in the comming release.
Have seen some other posts where also users have problems with BSD 11.0 on Atom Hardware.
At the moment i will stay on pfsense 2.3.1 with BSD 10.3.

Nachdem meine Firewall innerhalb der letzten Wo. sich 4x aufgehängt hat bin bin ich doch wieder zur funktionierenden pfsense zurück.
Habe nicht die Zeit und die Nerven auf Fehlesuche zu gehen. Sorry

Same issue on my box. lexcom 3i270d
Installed fresh one week ago.

Died always after one day.

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT thread. 1GBRam
NanoBSD form 4GB-CF

Bin grad von pfsense auf opnsense umgestiegen.
Bei pfsense gibt es die Möglichkeit PPPOE Einwahl zu einer bestimmten Zeit vorzunehmen.
Bei opnsense finde ich keine Einstellungen dazu.

Hab jemand ne Idee dazu ?