Quote from: meyergru on September 25, 2026, 10:53:04 PMYou only need that for active FTP, which I assumed why the question was asked.I guess you were right :
Quote from: loiclegarrec56 on September 27, 2026, 07:51:27 PMTo answer nero355's question:But it would have been nice if he had mentioned it to avoid wrong assumptions :)
In my case it's not a choice, unfortunately.
I'm dealing with a legacy application talking to an old FTP server that only does active mode.
It's being decommissioned very soon , but it still needs to keep working for a few more months, so I can't just drop FTP support in the meantime.
QuoteI'll test setup on site and report back here in case it helps anyone else running into the same gap in the documentation.Please do!
Quote from: patient0 on September 17, 2026, 06:54:38 AMDoes this mean the freeBSD version in the OPNsense installer is a custom compiled version?Quote from: nero355 on September 16, 2026, 11:24:11 PMOK, but is it this for exampleI have no idea, I assume it's that but not sure.
The driver is maintained by AMD AFAIK but OPNsense made changes too since their boxes use it.
Quote from: patient0 on September 26, 2026, 05:27:25 AMQuote from: N0b0dy1985 on September 25, 2026, 07:31:37 PMAnyone have any clue what I should be doing here? IYou can also search for DEC740/DEC750 and serial port configuration, they seem to use the same hardware (serial mmio at address 0xfedc9000).
What settings did you try so far? And do you get any output at all when booting Linux? Are you booting using grub and 'console=ttyS0,115200' was added to the 'linux' line in grub?
This blog post [Proxmox on DEC740](https://loganmarchione.com/2025/10/proxmox-backup-server-on-the-opnsense-dec740/) doesn't mention any special steps.
LLM suggests:
"Before you can get a Debian installer's serial output to appear, you must enable legacy UART in the BIOS,
At the UEFI/BIOS prompt, navigate to:
Setup Utility → AMD CBS → FCH Common Options → Uart Configuration Options
and enable the legacy UART features."
_But_ the OPNsense documentation recommends the opposite for OPNsense:
https://docs.opnsense.org/hardware/serial_connectivity.html#legacy-uart-vs-uefi-serial
"... support for EFI serial has changed, which requires EFI based systems to disable legacy support to prevent confusing the operating system"
It's probably worth changing this setting and give it a go.
Addition: I remember using clonezilla to make a complete backup of my DEC740. And adding 'console=ttyS0,115200n81' to the grub commandline (and some clonezilla specific stuff) was enough to make it work. But I'm not sure about the BIOS UART setting, I lent the DEC740 to someone and haven't got it right now.
Quote from: Patrick M. Hausen on September 25, 2026, 09:33:24 PMThe ig4iic0 device is IMHO not related to the serial device. ig4iic0/Designware is an SMBus/I2C controller. There must be a way to force that uart2 to behave. Did you go into the BIOS/firmware setup and check the "legacy serial console" or some such setting?