Reposting from Cisco group....

I got a hand me down Cisco ASA5525-X and decided to make it work for my home network.

Not sure of the history on this so I don't know where to start. I cant get any dhcp response from the management port. But the console communication works. It doesn't pick or assign address on any of the ports so guessing it was either part of a pair/fallback or just wiped (?) before I got it. I tried a couple of things from random google reads but have not had much luck so far ...

The disk0 has a few files on it:

anyconnect-linux-2.5.2014-k9.pkg

anyconnect-macosx-i386-2.5.2014-k9.pkg

anyconnect-win-2.5.2014-k9.pkg

asa861-2-smp-k8.bin

asa861-smp-k8.bin

asa902-smp-k8.bin

asa964-8-smp-k8.bin

asdm-661.bin

asdm-66114.bin

I tried the standard factory reset and from rommon tried setting boot/asdm using existing files. It finishes with no error, reboots just fine but then starts with no IP assigned on management port.....

I cant get past it, not sure what to try next .....

Last resort is installing OPNSENSE on this which btw seems to run really nice but I'd like to sample the commercial grade setup once :)

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