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16.7 Legacy Series / memstick not booting on Asus AM1 board. Screwy UEFI implementation?

« on: July 24, 2016, 10:27:01 pm »

I have Asus AM1M-A motherboard. It's one of those AMD AM1 SOC boards. It has UEFI bios on it and had I had any hair in the first place, I would have tore all off today.

I downloaded memstick image for AMD64, VGA. I did "burn" it to the memstick using dd=OPNsense-16.7.r2-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img of=/dev/sda2 bs=16k (I used Linux machine for this)

upon POST, banged F8, got boot menu, selected memstick, hit Enter and got after 3 seconds thrown into UEFI bios. Over and over. Changed hard drives, USB sticks, USB slots etc. Finally tore the case open, grabbed DVD device and attached it to the router. Then burned another file to blank DVD (OPNsense-16.7.r2-OpenSSL-cdrom-amd64.iso) and tried it.

Okay, cdrom boot worked. I installed using "Guided" setup and choose GPT. After reboot got black screen and message on it stating "the system found unauthorized changes on the firmware operating system or uefi drivers"

Tried memstick quickly again but now intentionally selected UEFI (memstick name) from F8 menu. Got black screen and identical message. Previously with memstick, I had tried booting it by "legacy method" since it was manually enabled in BIOS already and should have taken priority over UEFI crap.

I have installed OPNSense on another Asus board which also has UEFI Bios (Asus M5A99X Evo R2 which is AM3+ board in ATX size, leftover from my old gaming system) and had no such opera with it. I could force "Legacy Oprom" option and board would listen booting GPT formatted media without issues or complaining about firmwares. I used it briefly in a router and also used OPNSense installed on it.

Not so with this AM1 board. Seems like only option to use OPNSense installed on it is by using DVD and only doing MBR install.

Conclusion. I hate UEFI.

Any of you, who can't seem to get OPNSense on memstick to boot, try it by using cdrom based install and go with MBR option under "Guided setup". Might get over the issue.

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15.7 Legacy Series / Last update lost feature (Solved)

« on: December 12, 2015, 03:27:04 pm »

EDIT: Sorry, I did not grasp the changed logic. Found now how to do it. Thank you for development.

Different question : Is 802.11gn WLAN stable or should I stick to pure "g"?

HostAP based on Atheros AR9462 abng card.

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15.7 Legacy Series / [SOLVED] Installation issues 15.7.11

« on: November 01, 2015, 11:38:23 am »

OPNsense-15.7.11-OpenSSL-AMD64, tried both, iso written to cdrom and image written to USB.

9 out of 10 times installation would be stuck at one specific point (64% at default options for keymaps etc), I gave it half an hour and then manually rebooted the machine. One time I managed to complete install, system instantly shut itself down after I pressed F1 for boot (bootloader). And it also kept shutting itself down while attempting automatic boot.

Suggestions?

EDIT:
Machine in question is AMD AM1 platform, cpu AMD Athlon 5350 and motherboard is Asus Am1M-a, equipped with Sandisk SSD and Intel dual-nic, nothing else.

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15.1 Legacy Series / Atheros wireless driver

« on: May 02, 2015, 02:55:37 am »

Could you import Atheros WLAN driver from 11-CURRENT?

It would help with 802.11na (5Ghz "n").

At the moment getting

May 2 00:51:49    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetAntennaSwitch: called
May 2 00:51:49    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetAntennaSwitch: called
May 2 00:51:49    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetCTSTimeout: called
May 2 00:51:49    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetCTSTimeout: called
May 2 00:51:38    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetAntennaSwitch: called
May 2 00:51:38    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetAntennaSwitch: called
May 2 00:51:38    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetCTSTimeout: called
May 2 00:51:38    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetCTSTimeout: called
May 2 00:51:27    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetAntennaSwitch: called
May 2 00:51:27    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetAntennaSwitch: called
May 2 00:51:27    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetCTSTimeout: called
May 2 00:51:27    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetCTSTimeout: called
May 2 00:51:16    kernel: ar9300_Stub_GetAntennaSwitch: called

into syslog.. WLAN card I'm trying to use is Atheros AR9580

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15.1 Legacy Series / user experience

« on: February 04, 2015, 01:16:48 am »

OPNsense looks nice from every angle so far. Build from source took under a hour, less than setting up builder machine itself (it ran FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE).

 Pretty stark contrast compared to hours and hours wasted when I tried compiling pfSense from source (I've done it with 2.1.5 and 2.2-ALPHA - took sometimes days off and on figuring out and around the dependency/script/whatever random issues with the latter, before finishing a build)

Web GUI looks refreshingly different as well, though I sort of like more pfSense's compactness.

Dashboard shows for now 15.1.4_1-4b16c7531 (amd64) FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p17. Would building against 10.1 sources work or OPNsense is for now using strictly 10.0's code? I am trying to get around issues with Atheros AR9580 and AMD AM1 platform, might need to use newer sources, not sure yet.