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Hardware and Performance / Fitlet2 serial console redirection drops after OPNsense loads

« on: February 06, 2021, 04:34:52 pm »

I run on a Fitlet2 and cannot maintain serial console connection after the OS boots.  I am trying to deduce if OPNsense is lacking some driver I need to load or what.

I enabled serial console redirection in the BIOS as well as a setting that keeps it enabled after the OS loads.  I can see the POST and get into BIOS over a serial putty session.  Once the bootloader starts the OS, before I get the OPNsense ascii art splash screen, the serial session stops updating.

I also tried an Ubuntu Server USB boot image and after grub picks the OS, the serial console stops updating. 

I am looking for anyone that has successfully maintained a serial session on a Fitlet2 after OPNsense loads. 

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20.1 Legacy Series / VOIP phone registration error solved

« on: July 06, 2020, 10:26:45 pm »

I have a softphone app on my smartphone that connects to a cloud based PBX.  The PBX is a common Broadsoft platform.  If I open the app at home, behind my OPSense firewall, I get errors that it cannot register to the PBX.  If I turn off wifi or get on any other wifi network, it registers fine.  I've been hunting the solution off and on for weeks.  I was looking in the wrong direction since I assumed it had to do with some network topology nonsense on my end.  The solution turned out to be super simple.  I found it in the very last sentence of this article.

"If you are using a Dynamic DNS address, make sure you go to System: Settings: Administration and put that dynamic DNS address in the “Alternate Hostnames” field."

That's all I did.  I added my DynDNS hostname to that field and it was fixed. 

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20.1 Legacy Series / Fitlet2 fresh install: Segfault using vga. Installed via SSH and worked.

« on: July 06, 2020, 10:07:50 pm »

This is just an FYI for anyone who runs into this issue.

I got the a segmentation fault error doing a clean install of 20.1 on a J3455 Fitlet2.  The error appears when I hit "Accept these settings" at the very beginning of the graphical installer. 

This was while using a directly attached monitor and keyboard.  I did some research and found this article which pointed me in the direction of the root cause having something to do with integrated graphics.  The command in that article doesn't do anything.  I then found somewhere else, I think on this forum, that I can bypass this error by installing via SSH. 

I booted from the USB stick and assigned interfaces and IP to the LAN.  I was able to SSH in and successfully run the installer that way.

I had been running OPNSense on this hardware for years and doing in-place upgrades without a hitch, including all the way to 20.1.8.  I did a ton of experimentation without saving my good config so I just wanted to start fresh with a clean build. 

Just a reminder for Fitlet2 users, update to the latest BIOS and disable all 3 SCC components in the South Bridge settings.