PNWDweller Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I have an eBox Instagate EX2 that has been converted to pfSense. I of course forgot the admin password as it has been in storage for several months, and my attempts at trying my usual suspects of passwords and logins have not worked. This is the back: WIll a a DB9 to USB adapter work or will I need something more elaborate? I also have a Keyspan usb to serial adapter that I can use, but am not sure if that will suffice or not. I just need to be able to log into the console side of things and rest the WebGui password from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 get the pluggable one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2XB12D1318 I did it and I was able t recover some aruba APs as well as a Cyberoam firewall goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Instead of asking and waiting for an answer - try it - it will either work, or it wont - not gonna hurt anything. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 Instead of asking and waiting for an answer - try it - it will either work, or it wont - not gonna hurt anything. Before I tried it, I wanted to make sure I ordered the correct cable for my USB to serial adaptor. Since both my firewall box and the adaptor have male pins, I was checking to make sure this would work before I ordered and waited for a female/female DB9 connector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 AAaahhhhhhh I misread it as you a cable but thought about buying a different one My bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiretap Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I hope you enabled the serial console in your pfsense config when you initially installed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 I bought the firewall from eBay last year preinstalled so, hopefully they did do that. Else, I will have a firewall that works, but no way to manage it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 26, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 26, 2015 what is pfsense installed to cf or disk in the thing? You could alway take that and reinstall pfsense to it and then replace in this unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 what is pfsense installed to cf or disk in the thing? You could alway take that and reinstall pfsense to it and then replace in this unit. It is installed on a HDD. I throught I would just go ahead and reinstall from the installer CD, but my other PC that has IDE connectors (The one remaining one), does not have two nics and I do not have spares, so it would not proceed with the install. Come payday, I will order a cable online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 30, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 30, 2015 Wait til payday for a <$20 item.. ??? Ok... You can install pfsense with only 1 nic.. Not sure why having 2 nics would be a requirement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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