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    SG-1100 Mini PCIe slot - purpose?

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    • GrimsonG
      Grimson Banned @stephenw10
      last edited by

      @stephenw10 said in SG-1100 Mini PCIe slot - purpose?:

      The slot itself is wired for PCIe only so cannot be used for mSATA or LTE (which connect via USB).

      Did you order a custom design or can the "Wire jumper" still switch USB to the mini PCIe slot?

      wire jumper.jpg

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Ooo good point, the jumpers do still exist. Looking back at my notes I had no hardware to test it.

        However there is no SIM slot wired to it which most (all?) modem cards would require. I guess you might be able to use one of those adapter cards with SIM slot in it....

        Steve

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        • netraceN
          netrace
          last edited by

          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

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            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

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              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
              
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              • netraceN
                netrace
                last edited by

                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?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  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. ๐Ÿ™„
                  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. ๐Ÿ˜‰

                  Steve

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                  • netraceN
                    netrace @stephenw10
                    last edited by

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

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by 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

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by 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 ๐Ÿ™„

                        Steve

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                          daemonix
                          last edited by 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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                          SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.213V
                          NOTICE:  Booting Trusted Firmware
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                          NOTICE:  BL2: Built : 10:16:50, Oct 13 2021
                          NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL31
                          NOTICE:  BL31: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e-dirty (Marvell-devel-18.12.2)
                          NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 10
                          
                          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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                          /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x2a8 text=0x9a8fac text=0x25bee4 data=0x12ea238 data=0x0+0x2d58fe syms=[0x8+0x183288+0x8+0x1492f3]
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                          /boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko text=0x1217 text=0xc88 data=0x448+0x6830 syms=[0x8+0xfc0+0x8+0x88e]
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                          VT: init without driver.
                          real memory  = 1073680384 (1023 MB)
                          avail memory = 1003532288 (957 MB)
                          Starting CPU 1 (1)
                          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
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                          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.
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                          module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_monitor_fw, 0xffff000000214ec0, 0) error 1
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                          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
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                          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
                          WARNING: Device "g_ctl" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
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                          MAP 3e61f000 mode 2 pages 1
                          MAP 3ffc6000 mode 2 pages 1
                          WARNING: Device "openfirm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
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                          [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

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by stephenw10

                            Replied in your new thread.

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