I think I have that same old keyboard at home. I'll check tonight and bring it in to the office on Monday to test. Thank you for sharing the specifics on the model, @peterh and thank you for being a customer. We're glad you are enjoying the board!

I apologize for the delay, @david.mcgurty. We're glad you like your Interceptor! Unfortunately, we have not tested any kernels outside the one we provide. We will look to see if we can find some time in the future to look into this, but we are really packed with work right now. I'll see if anyone on the team has more to add, but I wanted to at least get this out to you so you knew we had read it and were thinking about it. I'm sorry I don't have better news for you at the moment.

Thank you for sharing this! I know we have several community members using OMV.

@seanwo it turns out you were the first of a few people to find that our factory had installed a different package of the Realtek IC that we had ordered for the board. Our BOM had the version B package, but they had installed, only on some of our boards, the version A package. We did not know this until it was pointed out today and it was not caught in the automated testing run at the factory. What we have done: 1. We updated our automated testing to check for this, so something like this will be caught in the factory going forward. 2. We added support for this package variant that we were not expecting, but were able to validate works just fine on our board. 3. There is a new OS image and new kernel patch on our Software Downloads page that now includes support for this IC package variant. 4. We reported this issue, in detail, to our factory and asked them to check with the IC vendor to find out what happened. Also, we asked them to verify parts from this vendor going forward (if we use them for any parts). Anyone who runs into this issue going forward should download the latest OS or kernel patch, which will resolve the issue. Thank you for reporting this, Sean, and thank you for your patience today as we worked through it. We apologize for the trouble you went through.

This is the key error: [ 11.262114] rtl8367b rtl8367rb: chip detection failed, err=-19 The Realtek IC is not detected and thus the switch cannot work. You need a new board. Please continue to work with Axzez customer support to get a replacement. We are very sorry for your issue.

Hi @stamaali4, We don't have a documented process for this. You would want to modify all 4 ports to be the same. With our OS, we only have 1 port setup as WAN and the other 3 are LAN, so you'd want to modify the other 3 to make them WAN too. Then you should just be able to bond them together. Right, so just to help a bit, we build the kernel in a Debian Bullseye slim docker image with the arm64 arch enabled. Nothing fancy. You will need swconfig tool to manage the Realtek IC that we use to specify the use of the ports. We do include this script in our image: /usr/libexec/config-rtl8367rb.sh If you are using our image, we set the default behavior of the 4 ports. If you are using a Flex PSU, then yes this is what we are offering. Did you also happen to look at the list of PSUs we've tested? There are some pico PSUs that we've validated (we have not tested with PoE boards) that you might be interested in. (e.g. RGEEK 24pin DC ATX 12V DC). You are very welcome.

The fans share a single trace that supplies up to 2Amps of power.

Well, that took longer than planned. There is no speed benefit to bonding the RJ45 ports. The only benefit to bonding would be redundancy (one port goes bad, then you have the others doing their work still). The 4 ports all share the 1GBPS ethernet line available from the CM4 board. The Realtek chip we use is just a switch that allows you share that one port from the CM4. We just uploaded the new 5.15.32 kernel patch to our downloads page: https://www.axzez.com/software-downloads We also now have a more official swconfig Debian package listed there for easy download and install. All we did here is compile and link swconfig, then create a deb. We did not modify the OpenWRT swconfig source code. This is needed for configuring the 4 port ethernet switch. Do any of they Flex PSUs we sell in our store work for your enclosure? The only issues we've seen were with under performance of the +3.3V rail. You should be fine with that.

@Pieter Geelen, We just uploaded the new 5.15.32 kernel patch to our downloads page: https://www.axzez.com/software-downloads We also now have the swconfig Debian package listed there for easy download and install.

That sounds like a nice setup you have there, @robert_dunlop. I'll leave this thread open for a bit in case others have questions about what you did or want to discuss HDDs.

@Pieter Geelen, Regarding the 5.15.x kernel, we are actually working on this today and may have a patch for you soon. Will keep you posted.

Hi @robert_dunlop, I apologize for the delay. We really cannot recommend any specific HDDs/SSDs, but I can say that, with all brands used in our testing, we have not seen issues. No customers have reported issues with any HDDs/SSDs either (to our knowledge).

Hi @stamaali4, We are working on a response for you. I will get back to you today.

Sorry, we did not include fan speed control with this initial model. I'll get back to you on the header current.

Sorry, I missed your "ZFS or RAID6" question. We have not run benchmarks on this comparison. We were asked to add ZFS support to our image, so we did. As far as setup, yes, our "manual" is not going to be complete as is typical in the Linux Community. We won't typically document how to do things that are already documented out there already. We document what is unique to our board. You should be able to find several online guides on how to configure RAID and ZFS online.

Hi @Pieter Geelen, if you are using the latest RPi image, you'll have the needed JMB585 drivers for SATA. There are some other updates (related to the Realtek IC and other config changes) that you'll want from the patch. Did you try applying the patch as-is? I'll see if we can't build a new patch based on 5.15. You can download the vlan config tool "swconfig" from here: https://www.axzez.com/swconfig_0.1_aarch64.deb

Sorry @Pieter Geelen, I was under the weather over the weekend, so I'm catching up. Great to see you are making progress. Sure, share away.

Absolutely our pleasure, sir. Looking forward to your next update!

They can get pretty warm, yes.

Voltage is fine. Not if the splash screen is disabled. If it is disabled, you won't see anything without USB support. Our software will enable the splash screen by default.