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Log back into the vmware website. find your esxi licence code go to configuration tab on the hypervisor under software > Licence Features > edit Enter the code. Away you go. Rob

seems expensive for a low volume brand. You can get this for similar money with the O/S! Acer Aspire E1-571 Laptop - Laptops | Ebuyer.com

Loved 505's.. I use a 520 as my home machine and prefer it to many modern style laptops.

Balls... (forgot the last paramater of the image transfer... See you agai in 7700 seconds. dd if=pf.img of=/dev/sdb bs=16k

7744 Seconds Rob

I am not stuck.... the small image did 8.2MB in 16 seconds.. (Roughly 2secons a MB) so by my reconing 4GB ( 4024 at 2MB/s = 8048 Seconds = 134 Minuets 2hrs 14m ) ... Coffee on the boil. Rob

LOL... Phone only took 20 mins, had to patch through fromanother old building, setup the vlan and patch from one end of the server room to the other.... Job Jobed.. the image i downloaded came as a .gz (gzip) which we use gunzip to unzip.. (I renamed it for ease of use to pf.img.gz) gunzip pf.img.gz and then write it out to my 4gb CF with dd if=pf.img of=/dev/sdb going to take a few mins to do that dd

Phew..... Tried a few of the various bios flashes and had no joy, found out I needed 115200 baud but that still seemed to be spitting junk out. Removed and reseated the serial cable and it popped up. I was on file X750EB5 ( thought I had bricked the box when it did not work... ) So I am now in the serial BIOS ( press tab to get in rather than DEL )... Got to go and sort a Phone for someone now though.............................................................

So instead of waiting arround I put the 256MB card back in the WG and powered on with my Windows laptop, serial cable salvaged from a random box, and a putty session on 9600 baud. Yay "Freedos" ( Picture later ) and now it 's time to flash the BIOS, the files are already on the image so no need to put them there. AWDFLASH is used to flash the BIOS AWDFLASH command line switches with the recomended command of awdflash.exe X750EB2.BIN /py /sn /cc /e but I am goign to attempt to back up the original so my command will be awdflash.exe X750EB2.BIN OLDBIOS.BIN /sy /py /sn /cc /e Here goes... Afterwards we will hopefully have bios on the terminal line..

and then wrote out the new image which has freedos and the program to update the bios. dd if=FreeDOSBios.img of=/dev/sdb which returened 8.2MB Copied So far so good. Before continuing I decided to put the image of PFSense on the BIG CF card that would run the new OS, this was so I can swap to an older laptop with Serial ( I could have done it on just one laptop but prefered using "dd" to move the images arround. So I downloaded an unpacked the latest ( Well it's Dec 2011) 2.0.1 4GB NanoBSD image for i386.. http://pfsense.mirrors.ovh.net/pfsense.org/downloads/pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz Unpacked it and transfered it to the 4GB card. ( well I will do in 55 mins when the download finishes! )

The Firebox is just a Intel Processor based PC board (Custom) the WG boots of a 256MB CF card, so the crux of it is changing the software to pFsense. 1st stumbling block that people have found is that the Firebox Bios is setup so that only a 256MB card will boot and the new image is bigger. So you have to get into the bios ( enabling serial console ) and change some settings. After taking the case appart (X5500) (photo to follow) I found the CF card that holds the system. On this platform it was hidden under a hardwar VPN expansion card. I then but this in a PCMCIA -> CF adapter and slotted it in an Ubuntu laptop. Unlike other guides I decided to try and back up the CF Card first. ( we will see if this works later! ) using the dd command dd if /dev/sdb of=/home/administrator/pfwork/firebox256.img (obviously the device needs to be the correct one! /dev/xxxx) It reported 257MB copied so that sounds reasonable.

Background. With relation to this thread http://www.edugeek.net/forums/wired-networks/104166-using-smoothwall-express-cisco-layer-3-switch.html And a tip off from "cpjitservices" I built a Virtual machine to test captive portal for our BYOD project. That worked realy well, however whilst stumbling round the net i came across reference to using pFsense on a Watchguard Firebox.... Fortunatly we had 2 X5500e-Peak and an SSL500 (which is more or less the same platform with different software). These were redundant and taking up space in a pile of stuff behind my desk, so finding a decent use for them was a bonus. So I am going to try the build and documnet my success/failure for you. There is quite a lot of info on the subject http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,20095.0.html http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,25011.0.html Firebox X500 hardware and two guides that I am referencing. Installing pfSense on a Watchguard Firebox X PracticalKungFu.net » >How to install pfsense 2.0 on a Watchguard x750e Core Various WG Fireboxes can be picked up and some for under £100 so they can hopefully make cracking reclaimed firewall. Rob

Yep two X5500e-Peak and an SSL500 ( different ram and CPU ). They don't have the standard HDD interface for the IDE but I can get an adapter if need be. could put DansG on it with a HDD... And with the mial filtering I can built a UTM on dedicated HW rather than on a Virtual Machine... Will keep you all posted in a new thread when the ball starts rolling. Rob

Check the rear USB for damage. Rob

I found out pFs can be made to run on a Watchguard. Fortunatly I have 3 redundant ones behind my desk Just waiting for a 4GB CF card to do the install Rob

I now have a Jaguar 3.0 S-Type Sport... 2001 model but it drives lovely... YAY Rob

Try realnorth Northern Realisations - Refurbishment and Remarketing of IT equipment since 1999 they may have something in the warehouse to dispose of and it's not a million miles from Nelson. Rob

They did, it's a stunt man not Roger

I bet they were getting a little ticked off by the end! Rob

Used Nano's on 1mile links with no issue at all. And similar deliberant 5M-18's with no line of site at .25Mile and full 100Mb bandwidth ( well they say 300Mb but the lan ports are only 100Mb!!! makes the wifi throughput a joke! ) Rob

I came across ( for the first time ) a d-link card that was not supported but found a thread on installing a new driver. Worked like a charm. Rob

ESXi Trialing pfSense for FW/Filter/mailfilter etc.. Having good success so far Rob

Seems overkill? A pair of Ubiquiti Nano stations would surely do the job Rob

netstat should do this Rob

Does not tell you what port ldap is running on though.