[pfSense] Soekris 6501 installation question

[Jim Pingle]

On 1/23/2012 1:28 PM, Seth Mos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Op 23 jan 2012, om 18:21 heeft David Miller het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> "Is it plugged in" questions are welcome, I'm probably missing something about that simple.  It's my first time with a soekris, and first time trying to boot pfsense off the memstick image.
>>
>> The soekris was set to 19200.  I tried 9600 on it as well (boot, ctrl-P, set ConSpeed=9600, reboot) to no avail.  Also 115200.
> 
> The soekris or alix is either 19200 or 38400 stock, we are still using 9600,n,8,1 for all our embedded builds.
> 
> If this is a memstick image you should not expect serial output iirc. Only the nanobsd images have serial, the nanobsd images with VGA even have VGA instead.
> 
> Maybe I've missed something, but I believe this is the case.

Correct, the stock memstick image is VGA only. It's not meant to be run
long-term, it's just an installer.

If you're feeling lucky, I haven't heard back any input on this, but I
made a serial memstick the other day if you want to try. My Soekris is
currently in active duty so I can't easily pull it to try.

http://files.chi.pfsense.org/jimp/pfSense-memstick-serial-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img.gz

Jim