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22.7 Legacy Series / emmc timeout / unuseable on cyberoam / aewin appliance

« on: January 10, 2023, 10:31:48 pm »

I'm trying to run opnsense 22.7 on an cyberoam appliance. Every hardware part seems to be supported, except that i'm experiencing problems with it's onboard emmc module.

To be specific, this part from the bootlog is where things seem to go wrong:

sdhci_pci0-slot0: Controller timeout
sdhci_pci0-slot0: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Sys addr: 0x00000000 | Version:  0x00001001
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Blk size: 0x00000004 | Blk cnt:  0x00000001
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000002
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Present:  0x01ff0106 | Host ctl: 0x00000003
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Power:    0x0000000f | Blk gap:  0x00000000
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Wake-up:  0x00000000 | Clock:    0x00004007
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Timeout:  0x0000000d | Int stat: 0x00000000
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Int enab: 0x01ff00fb | Sig enab: 0x01ff00fa
sdhci_pci0-slot0: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Host ctl2:0x00000000
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Caps:     0x21a632b2 | Caps2:    0x00000570
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Max curr: 0x00c80064 | ADMA err: 0x00000000
sdhci_pci0-slot0: ADMA addr:0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x000000ff
sdhci_pci0-slot0: ===========================================
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Controller timeout
sdhci_pci0-slot0: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Sys addr: 0x00000000 | Version:  0x00001001
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Blk size: 0x00000004 | Blk cnt:  0x00000001
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000012
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Present:  0x01ff0206 | Host ctl: 0x00000003
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Power:    0x0000000f | Blk gap:  0x00000000
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Wake-up:  0x00000000 | Clock:    0x00004007
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Timeout:  0x0000000d | Int stat: 0x00000001
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Int enab: 0x01ff00fb | Sig enab: 0x01ff00fa
sdhci_pci0-slot0: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Host ctl2:0x00000000
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Caps:     0x21a632b2 | Caps2:    0x00000570
sdhci_pci0-slot0: Max curr: 0x00c80064 | ADMA err: 0x00000000
sdhci_pci0-slot0: ADMA addr:0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x000000ff
sdhci_pci0-slot0: ===========================================

The scb-6901 appliance supports both uefi and legacy booting. Strangely enough, while booting in pure uefi mode (with csm disabled) the emmc device disappears.

So what i've tried so far:
Booting opnsense 22.7 vga image from usb in uefi mode with csm (legacy) module disabled
Booting opnsense 22.7 serial image from usb in csm (legacy) mode

Read this topic that suggests emmc support should be there.

Read this topic and tried putting "hw.sdhci.enable_msi=0" in the loader.conf file . Even that didnt make much of a difference (one would expect the emmc device to be disabled?)

Putting the "sd host controller version" (thats what the uefi/bios calls the emmc device/controller) in "2.0"mode. And after that, putting it in "3.0" mode.
Changed the sd device in the uefi from adma to pio mode. Made no difference.

So now i've tried as much as anything i could think of. Does anyone have a clue how to get the emmc device not timing out?

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19.7 Legacy Series / 19.7.9_1 constantly losing wan connection

« on: January 24, 2020, 12:59:13 pm »

Since 19.7.9_1 i'm constantly, on a daily basis , losing wan connection to my cable modem. A dhcp release and renew solves the problem. Have there been any changes in the code resulting in this? I'm running on intel nics (i210-at) , nothing has changed in my setup?

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19.1 Legacy Series / 19.1 completely messed up my network

« on: February 05, 2019, 03:08:17 pm »

Since i've upgraded to 19.1, my network became completely unusuable. What i've encountered:

-my squeezebox is suddenly offline, cant see its servers
-android phones cant load webpages, google news unable to load content, apps cant load content (on separate access points, nothing has changed there)
-debian netinstall cant load content from ftp source

Websites cant load, sudden timeouts, destinations unreachable.

The situation became so dramatic that i had to poweroff the opnsense firewall and put a temp tplink router in place. "everything" came bank to life.

I'm running opnsense on an intel celeron j1900 supermicro appliance with intel gbit nics. Everything worked fine up until the update to 19.1  .

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Hardware and Performance / unable to boot i386 image from usb flashdrive

« on: December 11, 2018, 09:08:49 pm »

I mentioned this in another thread, but this definitely needs more attention. It seems to be impossible to boot the 32bit image from usb flash drive. I've tried this on four different devices (all native 32bit), and they all crash the moment they try to load the bootloader. With the exception of an intel atom based device, when the flash drive is inserted into it it fails to even do the basic memorycount (please be aware that in "modern" bioses there is a lot more going on in the background then that what is shown on screen).

So different devices from different brands, tested with various usb flash drives ( all branded, no noname chinese stuff) , all have the same outcome.

@franco , in the other thread you mentioned testing the i386 image just a few days ago, can you please specify what kind of device this was? Was this a  true 32bit device or did you test it in legacy mode on a amd64 machine? And was it uefi or bios booting? (yes, 32bit uefi exists  )

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Hardware and Performance / opnsense crashing hard on boot (on generic intel hardware)

« on: December 06, 2018, 10:43:53 pm »

I'm trying to run opnsense on an "old" machine, which consists of an intel centrino cpu, i855 chipset, 2gb ram, 4gb cf on storage. When booting, opnsense crashes hard and i cant figure out what is going wrong. I've included a screenshot.