Last week I blogged about hacking up an old Google Mini appliance and transforming it in to a energy efficient pfSense router. Today I wanted to make a quick note about how to setup pfSense 2.0 RC3 embedded with VGA. For many years I used pfSense 1.2 on a older pentium III. What drew me to pfSense was its small platform and ability to run off a compact flash card. It was only after I purchased some used 1u vpn routers that had compact flash card readers built in that I started researching about the embedded version. These same appliances had VGA ports and usb ports, along with 4 network ports and 1 additional PCI device (wifi or lan for example). After searching around a bit I found Hacom, an embedded systems and appliance company. These great folks have provided their modified factory embedded install, enabling VGA and USB while still running off a small 256mg-4gb compact flash card. Now that I am more accustom to console devices, the CLI no longer scares me, but even so I installed Hacom's latest release of vga enabled pfSense on my new router.
You can download PFhacom here:
http://www.hacom.net/kb/pfsense-2-rc3
And use physdiskwrite to get it on to your CF card:
http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php
Enjoy!
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