Hoo, boy, did I have issues. I finally got around to trying to get it up and running linux.
For reference, this was the: - Jetway NU93-2930 NUC Form Factor Intel Celeron N2930 SoC Bay Trail 2 Intel LAN, 2 Display, 2 x HDMI, 1 x SATA2 port, full-size mSATA, half-size mini-PCIE, 1 External COM, 3xUSB2, 1xUSB3, Audio, 9V-24V DC-in (size 4" x 4" x 1.5"). which I got from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Jetway-JC320U93W-2930-B-Intel-Celeron-Fanless/dp/B00SHYW6US?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00 This came with an intel wifi card that I pulled out and tried to replace with an ath10k. 1) Sometimes the hdmi wouldn't work (it also did not work on either of my admittedly older monitors really at all. So I bought a new monitor to get it up, and maybe I got lucky, but that new monitor "just worked". Well, it turns out there is a BIOS fix here, which I have not installed yet. http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NU93.html 2) No linux OS I tried would write a workable EFI boot area for it until I tried ubuntu 16.04 beta last night. There is no way to turn EFI off, either. 3) I'd tried to use a msata + raid to sata adaptor. this is usually not recognized on a soft boot, and the thing drops to an EFI shell the raid component (mirroring) would work sometimes, and other times it would fall back on the "fast mode" which joins the two cards together serially. Naturally this doesn't work either. I am going to ditch this idea entirely as a well intentioned experiment for making something more reliable that actually made it more complex with more failure modes. I'm going to skip trying one of these, also. http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Memory-Card-Adapter-Converter/dp/B017QXZGR0/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1460592608&sr=1-2&keywords=sd-card+raid 4) It has a full-length msata slot - and a half length pci-e slot. Despite these sharing a connector type the big slot appears to be msata only. There is no jumper or bios setting to change it to something else. I have had nucs that had the full length slot be mini-pcie capable before, but not this one, apparently. ... Of these, this last appears the most damning - without a full length mini-pcie slot, it's mostly not useful for my purposes. I DID need a router/delay box, but I was hoping to also feed it the ath10k full length card. Neither long form mini-pcie cards I tried in it worked. BQL support works, at least. It's more than fast enough to forward at a gigabit, and cake can shape to a gbit also. It gets pretty warm when doing a big compile, but is otherwise silent. So it is suitable as a non-wifi x86 based router so long as you are willing to install a very recent linux os on it, and a half length wifi card. And go msata (Or perhaps pfsense has better EFI, I didn't try it, am not going to...) Ah, well, off to review all the other recommendations on the list, I'd really hoped to get this box up on the ath10k this past week. Also somewhat tried was an intel galeio board... -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
