SG-1100 Mini PCIe slot - purpose?

[netrace]

Resuming this thread exactly 1 year old: is it possible to point me where is located the wire jumper in the board? I do really need LTE connection as mini PCIe, and I only miss the USB interface on the Mini PCIe.

Giorgio

[stephenw10]

Hmm, I'd have to look into it again but I don't believe you can as I said a year ago.
However there is now some support for the PCI bus in 2.4.5. Actual card support may vary but you might find wifi cards now work there.

Steve

[stephenw10]

With the WLE200NX for example:

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@1100-3.stevew.lan]/root: pciconf -lv
ath0@pci0:0:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x3099168c chip=0x002a168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
    device     = 'AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)'
    class      = network

[netrace]

Thanks Steve!
This is a very good news!

However, the usb interface is not wired to the pci. I see many wire jumpers on the board, are you aware of any circuit board schematic I can looking into?

[stephenw10]

The USB jumpers (J16 and J19) are there so you should be able to switch the connections from the external port to the mPCIe slot. However I cannot find the modem I know I have to test it with right now. I've installed in something but can't for the life of me remember what.
I should point out that while I would expect any issues doing this it would be an untested/unsupported setup. There are no antenna holes so you would need to get creative.

Steve

[netrace]

@stephenw10 Thanks so much, I'll try this week and let you know!

[stephenw10]

Found my modem! It works:

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@1100-3.stevew.lan]/root: usbconfig
ugen0.1: <Marvell XHCI root HUB> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen1.1: <Marvell EHCI root HUB> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen1.2: <Sierra Wireless, Incorporated Mini Card> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (0mA)

ugen1.2: <Sierra Wireless, Incorporated Mini Card> at usbus1
u3g0 on uhub1
u3g0: <Data Interface> on usbus1
u3g0: Found 3 ports.

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@1100-3.stevew.lan]/dev: cu -l cuaU0.0
Connected
at
OK
ati
Manufacturer: Sierra Wireless, Inc.
Model: MC8775
Revision: H1_1_9_3MCAP C:/WS/FW/H1_1_9_3MCAP/MSM6280/SRC 2007/12/12 11:49:21
IMEI: 013265502503099
IMEI SV: 10
FSN: D611748126531
3GPP Release 5
+GCAP: +CGSM,+FCLASS,+DS


OK

Just move the two jumpers near the USB port (J16+J19) to their alternate positions.

Steve

[stephenw10]

Of course I've just realised there's no SIM slot. So you would need one of those SIM card adapters.

Edit: Memory not good then! https://forum.netgate.com/post/833230

Steve

[daemonix]

hello,

Im trying to add a 2.4G PCIE (mikrotik) to the 1100 and boot stops at pci0. I have moved the 2 jumpers as above.

TIM-1.0
WTMI-devel-18.12.1-1a13f2f
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U-Boot 2018.03-devel-18.12.3-gc9aa92c-dirty (Oct 13 2021 - 10:14:54 -0300)

Model: Netgate 1100
       CPU     1200 [MHz]
       L2      800 [MHz]
       TClock  200 [MHz]
       DDR     750 [MHz]
DRAM:  1 GiB
Comphy chip #0:
Comphy-0: USB3          5 Gbps    
Comphy-1: PEX0          2.5 Gbps  
Comphy-2: SATA0         6 Gbps    
SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs 
PCIE-0: Link up
MMC:   sdhci@d0000: 0, sdhci@d8000: 1
Loading Environment from SPI Flash... SF: Detected mx25u3235f with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB
OK
Model: Netgate 1100
Net:   eth0: neta@30000 [PRIME]
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can't find '/etc/hostid'
can't find '/boot/entropy'
Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x8000000.
---<<BOOT>>---
Copyright (c) 1992-2021 The FreeBSD Project.
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VT: init without driver.
real memory  = 1073680384 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1003532288 (957 MB)
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FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
arc4random: WARNING: initial seeding bypassed the cryptographic random device because it was not yet seeded and the knob 'bypass_before_seeding' was enabled.
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ipw_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw.LICENSE.
ipw_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_bss_fw, 0xffff000000214d60, 0) error 1
ipw_ibss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw.LICENSE.
ipw_ibss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_ibss_fw, 0xffff000000214e10, 0) error 1
ipw_monitor: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw.LICENSE.
ipw_monitor: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_monitor_fw, 0xffff000000214ec0, 0) error 1
iwi_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE.
iwi_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (iwi_bss_fw, 0xffff000000214f70, 0) error 1
iwi_ibss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE.
iwi_ibss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (iwi_ibss_fw, 0xffff000000215020, 0) error 1
iwi_monitor: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE.
iwi_monitor: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (iwi_monitor_fw, 0xffff0000002150d0, 0) error 1
random: entropy device external interface
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MAP 3ffc6000 mode 2 pages 1
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WARNING: Device "pci" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
[ath_hal] loaded
WARNING: Device "kbd" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
kbd0 at kbdmux0
ofwbus0: <Open Firmware Device Tree>
simplebus0: <Flattened device tree simple bus> on ofwbus0
simplebus1: <Flattened device tree simple bus> on simplebus0
simple_mfd0: <Simple MFD (Multi-Functions Device)> mem 0x13800-0x138ff,0x13c00-0x13c1f on simplebus1
simple_mfd1: <Simple MFD (Multi-Functions Device)> mem 0x18800-0x188ff,0x18c00-0x18c1f on simplebus1
psci0: <ARM Power State Co-ordination Interface Driver> on ofwbus0
gic0: <ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3.0> mem 0x1d00000-0x1d0ffff,0x1d40000-0x1d7ffff,0x1d80000-0x1d81fff,0x1d90000-0x1d91fff,0x1da0000-0x1dbffff irq 27 on simplebus1
gpio0: <Armada 37x0 North Bridge GPIO Controller> mem 0x13800-0x138ff,0x13c00-0x13c1f irq 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39 on simple_mfd0
gpiobus0: <OFW GPIO bus> on gpio0
gpio1: <Armada 37x0 South Bridge GPIO Controller> mem 0x18800-0x188ff,0x18c00-0x18c1f irq 40,41,42,43,44 on simple_mfd1
gpiobus1: <OFW GPIO bus> on gpio1
gpioregulator0: <GPIO controlled regulator> on ofwbus0
generic_timer0: <ARMv8 Generic Timer> irq 0,1,2,3 on ofwbus0
Timecounter "ARM MPCore Timecounter" frequency 12500000 Hz quality 1000
Event timer "ARM MPCore Eventtimer" frequency 12500000 Hz quality 1000
cpulist0: <Open Firmware CPU Group> on ofwbus0
cpu0: <Open Firmware CPU> on cpulist0
cpu1: <Open Firmware CPU> on cpulist0
pmu0: <Performance Monitoring Unit> irq 4 on ofwbus0
spi0: <Armada 37x0 SPI controller> mem 0x10600-0x10fff irq 6 on simplebus1
iichb0: <Marvell Armada 37x0 IIC controller> mem 0x11000-0x11023 irq 7 on simplebus1
iicbus0: <OFW I2C bus> on iichb0
iic0: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus0
uart0: <Marvell Armada 3700 UART> mem 0x12000-0x121ff irq 9,10,11 on simplebus1
uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
gpioc0: <GPIO controller> on gpio0
syscon_generic_dev0: <syscon> mem 0x14000-0x1405f on simplebus1
gpioc1: <GPIO controller> on gpio1
mvneta0: <NETA controller> mem 0x30000-0x33fff irq 14 on simplebus1
mvneta0: version is 10
mvneta0: Ethernet address: f0:ad:4e:23:33:c3
mdio0: <MDIO> on mvneta0
e6000sw0: <Marvell 88E6341> on mdio0
e6000sw0: multi-chip addressing mode (0x1)
e6000sw0: CPU port at 0
e6000sw0: fixed port at 0
e6000sw0: PHY at port 1
miibus0: <MII bus> on e6000sw0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> PHY 17 on miibus0
e1000phy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
e6000sw0: PHY at port 2
miibus1: <MII bus> on e6000sw0
e1000phy1: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> PHY 18 on miibus1
e1000phy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
e6000sw0: PHY at port 3
miibus2: <MII bus> on e6000sw0
e1000phy2: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> PHY 19 on miibus2
e1000phy2:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
e6000sw0: switch is ready.
etherswitch0: <Switch controller> on e6000sw0
xhci0: <Marvell Integrated USB 3.0 controller> mem 0x58000-0x5bfff irq 16 on simplebus1
xhci0: 32 bytes context size, 32-bit DMA
usbus0 on xhci0
ehci0: <Marvell Integrated USB 2.0 controller> mem 0x5e000-0x5ffff irq 17 on simplebus1
usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
usbus1 on ehci0
sdhci_xenon0: <Armada Xenon SDHCI controller> mem 0xd0000-0xd02ff,0x1e808-0x1e80b irq 24 on simplebus1
mmc0: <MMC/SD bus> on sdhci_xenon0
sdhci_xenon1: <Armada Xenon SDHCI controller> mem 0xd8000-0xd82ff,0x17808-0x1780b irq 25 on simplebus1
mmc1: <MMC/SD bus> on sdhci_xenon1
ahci0: <AHCI SATA controller> mem 0xe0000-0xe1fff irq 26 on simplebus1
ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 1 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported with FBS
ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0
pcib0: <Marvell Armada 3700 PCIe Bus Controller> mem 0xd0070000-0xd008ffff irq 5 on simplebus0
pcib0: link up
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0

Any ideas?

EDIT: I have used the same PCIE wifi card with pfsense on a APU2C4

[stephenw10]

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