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Post by cskern on Oct 22, 2017 2:36:27 GMT
In June of last year I bought a MITXPC FWPD12TIMT3410. Prior to that I was using SmallWall on a Soekris net4801. I was expecting to run the serial image, but the MITXPC came loaded with the vga image. I managed to install the serial image, but when loading, the output stopped when the NICs came up (see attached). I worked with MITXPC, but we couldn't figure out why. Now that I got a hold of a VGA monitor cheap at a garage sale, I want to install the vga image. I tried the System:Firmware update option by changing the generic-pc-1.8.3.img file to generic-pc-serial-1.8.3.img and loading., but nothing happens. After several minutes, when I click on the System:Firmware button I get the following message: Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /usr/local/www/system_firmware.php on line 156 Firmware uploading is not supported on this platform. Any suggestions on how to install the other image? Attachments:smallwall-output.txt (7.46 KB)
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Post by Lee Sharp on Oct 22, 2017 5:43:28 GMT
OK, I am a bit confused. What image is on the system now, serial or VGA? Is Serial, how did you load it? The reason I ask is that the MITXPC image is custom to their nics. The serial image uses generic nics so your problem may be a lack of nic detection.
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Post by cskern on Oct 22, 2017 23:42:33 GMT
Right now the serial version is installed and has been since June 2016 and the system has been and is working fine. It's just now I want to change back.
When I got the device and realized that the VGA version was installed, I called MITXPC and they said what you did. I installed the serial version by installing SLAX on a USB stick and booting into that, then installing the serial version on the USB drive that can with the pc. Only then did I realize that it didn't boot to the menu, though SmallWall did boot and is working fine, I could get to it via the web GUI.
Now that I have a dedicated VGA monitor, I tried to install the VGA version. The last paragraph of the Working with Serial Only Systems page (http://smallwall.org/docs/qsg-serial.html) states the following:
You can change from standard to serial and back again. But the system will alert that you are uploading a different type. Rename you image to the filename it expects to work around this.
So I tried it and encountered my problem.
Unfortunately, I didn't take notes back then and when I tried booting SLAX, I couldn't get a terminal, so I must be missing a module(s).
I wrote up the problem to let you know, there's a problem on MITXPC's equipment using the serial image, though how many of us are still doing that.
Hope this helps clarify things.
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Post by Lee Sharp on Nov 8, 2017 22:27:39 GMT
It does depend on how MITXpc set up the serial ports as well. It can be a bit confusing, especially on systems designed for VGA. Are you sure it is actually not working and not just a baud rate mismatch?
And do you still need help changing back?
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