Thanks. The connector for the WLAN card did seem a mini-PCIe but I thought you were going to stick with SDIO.
Best regards, Tiago On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > > Hi Wad, >> >> Been reading some "lost" e-mails, sorry to be bumping this up. >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:35 PM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >> On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> >>> > hi scott, thanks for joining in, here. >>> > >>> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian >>> > <csc...@laptop.org> wrote: >>> >> Good luck with your SDR dreams. I think the most you can expect from >>> >> OLPC is that, *if* the 10 improbable things you described actually >>> >> come to pass, OLPC will someday include a miniPCI slot so that they >>> >> can plug in your magic daughtercard. >>> > >>> > miniPCI assumes there's a PCI bus. ARM SoCs don't have PCI (that i >>> > know of). the only SoC x86 chip i've heard about is the 1ghz IEC >>> > 100HV from RDC. but with ARM it'd have to be a mini PCI-e slot with >>> > the USB2 option - pins 36 and 34 - but that's been ruled out because >>> > john's removed all internal USB paths. the next gen x86 clone from >>> > RDC that they're planning will have full PCI-e. >>> >>> Actually, I got that miniPCI connector into XO-1.5. I won't go into >>> >> >> >> You did? I can't find any reference in the XO 1.5 diagrams. >> Is it already being used for something? >> > > Read the next paragraph I wrote: > > But as with most networking cards, the miniPCI is just a form factor. >>> Most WiFi/GSM cards on the market electrically use a USB connection. >>> On XO-1.5, we use SDIO, but also provide a spare USB port to the miniPCI >>> (why not ?) The form factor is half-length miniPCI, and the pinout >>> is documented at: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/0/05/ >>> XO_1.5_Pinouts_C2.pdf >>> >> > CN19 in that document is the PCIe pinout. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:XO_1.5_C1_Annotated_Motherboard.png > shows the miniPCIe connector, with a WLAN card attached. > > Cheers, > wad > >
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