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Hardware and Performance / Re: Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 27, 2021, 08:58:38 am »

All!

I honestly appreciate all of your help! At this point in time I believe it doesn't make sense anymore to burn more hours ($$$) on additional trials to get that running.

Rather, I think the time has come and I need to replace the hardware. The best thing to do on this occasion is also to create redundancy/failover solution.

Again, many thanks for all of your help!

Best
EddZig

 

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 26, 2021, 09:50:53 pm »

Unfortunately nothing. The previous vendor sold the device as “LES v3”. No more details except of the  picture.
I am wondering how to manage a device on BIOS level w/o VGA…

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 26, 2021, 03:51:55 pm »

root@OPNsense:~ # dmesg | grep tty
root@OPNsense:~ #

root@OPNsense:~ # dmesg | grep 16550
uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa0
root@OPNsense:~ #

root@OPNsense:/ # pstat -t
      LINE   INQ  CAN  LIN  LOW  OUTQ  USE  LOW   COL  SESS  PGID STATE
     ttyu0 23040    0    0 2304 23064    0 2307    11 61067 61067 ICOil
     ttyu1     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 IC
     ttyv0     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv1     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv2     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv3     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv4     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv5     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv6     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv7     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv8     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyv9     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyva     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     ttyvb     0    0    0    0     0    0    0     0     0     0 -
     pts/0  7680    0    0  768  7688    0  769     0 49788 96934 Oi
root@OPNsense:/ #


I don't think there are serial interfaces available on sense side.... ANd I have no clue ho to get to the BIOS of this LES without VGA.

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 26, 2021, 10:14:29 am »

Here a pic of the hardware, maybe you can identify an un-used/disconnected VGA interface...

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aqo5RK0K40pekpBHQB0x2s5oiXZWJw?e=5tXhiS

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 26, 2021, 10:01:35 am »

So, what we just did is the loopback test on the Win PC side. Everything I entered into Putty I just got back.

How to enable/check on sense side? There is no VGA interface, only <Serial 3x LAN, 2 USB>

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 26, 2021, 09:46:55 am »

I tried many combination of settings, especially the flow control. I assume the sense side is 8,n,1 and XON/XOFF. I tried the speed and with HW control, w/o, with XON/OFF, without.....

Unfortunately my remote hand will be on vacation for 2 weeks, so "quickly" organizing a linux box will take some time.

Many thanks for your valuable input so far!!!

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 26, 2021, 09:14:24 am »

Did you enable the serial as "Primary Console" in GUI? Password protections?

-> Yes

Is it a serial cable or do you use a serial to USB (on sense side)?

-> serial able on sense side, USB2SER on PC side

Press RETURN in the putty (?) window while connected, anything happening?

-> yes, nothing, zero

Have you rebooted the sense and watched the serial console for output?

Yes, even that. Nothing

I am trying to organize a PC with built-in serial int to avoid any issues with the USB2SER adapter, but this will take a while.

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Hardware and Performance / Connection to console via serial port not possible

« on: August 25, 2021, 04:46:21 pm »

Hi,

I want to perform an upgrade of OPNsense to the latest version and would like to be prepared for the case the update would fail. For that I tried to establish a serial connection to the device (no VGA available) from a W10 PC without success.

I checked the settings on the firewall (115200, 8,n,1 - with and w/o hardware flow control) already as well as on the Windows 10 device.

No further idea how to proceed - and, I am a Windows guy, not familiar with Linux. With the help of some KB articles I could check the loader.conf (equals to wht the FW GUI shows). Maybe the serial port of the PC is not working properly, but no clue how to sort that outas I don't have any other serial device...

Any suggestion or help is highly welcome!

Many thanks in advance
EZ

Current OS = OPNsense 18.7.10_4 (amd64/OpenSSL)