FWIW, the Nexcom 1030's that I have work wonderfully on the embedded image (which already does serial console). The only thing I had to do was swap the COM ports on the motherboard, by default the external serial (on the 1030) is cabled to COM2. BIOS redirection still worked (up until you get to the OS), so it took a while to figure out what was wrong.
BTW, some of their units have a minipci slot, they might make a useful (if a hair large at 19") access point (or point to point bridge) as they have real CPUs on them :) --Bill On 1/10/06, Holger Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been installing 3 Nexcom 1041c with 80GB WD HDDs today and was running > into the odd Installationproblem several people have reported. I've been > playing around with a lot of different things to make this work and here is > what solved the issue for me: > > 1. Set your HDD mode in BIOS to LBA (don't use "auto", the detected geometry > is different if it is set to auto and it fails; this was an award bios) > 2. In the installation process uncheck "packet mode" (with checked packet > mode I ended up with kernel errors on bootup from hdd) > > Some other remarks when installaing a Nexcom 1041c: > > Bios: > - enable the serial assistent to stay after boot (this way you have > everything at the serial console after enabling com1 in the webgui later) > - set the powersupply type from "at" to "atx" or the shutdown event won't be > able to power down the machine > > pfSense installation: > - plug in/replug a usb-keyboard when asked for configuring VLANs (no need to > attach the ps2-y-cable to the location where you hardly can attach it with > the board inside the case) and install from the livecd with > monitor/usb-keyboard > - after bootup from hdd enable serial console at system>advanced in the webgui > > With these settings/installprocedures the Nexcom 1041c is a great platform to > run pfSense on! > > Holger > > ____________ > Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
