RE: [pfSense Support] COM-port Watchguard Firebox X500 with 2.0-RC1

2011-05-08 Thread Dimitri Rodis
>Do you know if this is a special Firebox problem or a more general one? >AFAIR FreeBSD supports the Realtek 8139C+ since version 5.2 or so. >Should this driver still have problems with this chip or is this a problem >only on this special machine? > >Thanks >Markus The support has been present, b

Re: [pfSense Support] COM-port Watchguard Firebox X500 with 2.0-RC1

2011-05-08 Thread Markus Winkler
On 08.05.2011 02:48 Dimitri Rodis wrote: > Even if you get the console to work, you are still going to get > watchdog timeouts on the NICs of this unit, which is something that I > have been working with the driver maintainer on for quite some time > in order to try and fix. Do you know if this is

Re: [pfSense Support] COM-port Watchguard Firebox X500 with 2.0-RC1

2011-05-08 Thread Markus Winkler
On 08.05.2011 00:30 Jim Cheetham wrote: >>> Bootup complete >> >> ... and now we should see the login command shell. > > And what happens if you press return a couple of times at this point? I already tried this but nothing happens. Regards, Markus --

Re: [pfSense Support] COM-port Watchguard Firebox X500 with 2.0-RC1

2011-05-08 Thread Markus Winkler
On 08.05.2011 00:12 Jim Cheetham wrote: > So your problem is a more serious one, the console login shell isn't > running. > > I'd recommend booting your pfSense image in a virtual machine to see > what happens there. If the same thing occurs, it will be easier to hunt > for log file entries than f