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# picocom -b 115200 --imap crcrlf /dev/ttyUSB0
Install flashrom.
[2.4.1-RELEASE][admin@pfSense]/root: pkg install flashrom
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
flashrom: 0.9.9_2 [pfSense]
libpci: 3.5.5 [pfSense]
pciids: 20170916 [pfSense]
Number of packages to be installed: 3
The process will require 2 MiB more space.
381 KiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/3] Fetching flashrom-0.9.9_2.txz: 100% 143 KiB 146.0kB/s 00:01
[2/3] Fetching libpci-3.5.5.txz: 100% 49 KiB 49.9kB/s 00:01
[3/3] Fetching pciids-20170916.txz: 100% 190 KiB 194.4kB/s 00:01
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/3] Installing pciids-20170916...
[1/3] Extracting pciids-20170916: 100%
[2/3] Installing libpci-3.5.5...
[2/3] Extracting libpci-3.5.5: 100%
[3/3] Installing flashrom-0.9.9_2...
Extracting flashrom-0.9.9_2: 100%
[2.4.1-RELEASE][admin@pfSense]/root:
Download firmware.
[2.4.1-RELEASE][admin@pfSense]/root: cd /tmp/ [2.4.1-RELEASE][admin@pfSense]/tmp: fetch http://pcengines.ch/file/apu2_v4.0.7.rom.zip apu2_v4.0.7.rom.zip 100% of 726 kB 1156 kBps 00m00s [2.4.1-RELEASE][admin@pfSense]/tmp: unzip apu2_v4.0.7.rom.zip Archive: apu2_v4.0.7.rom.zip extracting: apu2_v4.0.7.rom extracting: apu2_v4.0.7.rom.md5 extracting: changes.txt
Install firmware.
[2.4.1-RELEASE][admin@pfSense]/tmp: flashrom -w apu2_v4.0.7.rom -p internal flashrom v0.9.9-r1955 on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 (amd64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... OK. coreboot table found at 0xdffae000. Found chipset "AMD FCH". Enabling flash write... OK. Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done. Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
With pfSense 2.3 and later pkg can be used to install software.according to the documentation it's not recommended
With NanoBSD image (deprecated):
[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense]/root: /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw [2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense]/root: pkg install flashrom-0.9.9 [2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense]/root: /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro
With normal image:
[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense]/root: pkg install flashrom-0.9.9
[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense]/root: flashrom -w apu2_160311.rom -p internal flashrom v0.9.9-r1955 on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 (amd64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... OK. coreboot table found at 0xdffae000. Found chipset "AMD FCH". Enabling flash write... OK. Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done. Verifying flash... VERIFIED.