03-03-2014, 03:53 PM
Nice and thank you. I was unable to find them before as I was not a member of SBH. So my apologies teddyalmonds.
Upon review of the consumer model right in front of me and the DIAG model in your pics there is a ton of differences. The JTAG port on the consumer model is completely disabled.(meaning no chips U600/U601, inductance coil (L) a few capacitors and a diode.) Among other multiple places of the board.
I mislabeled the USB and firewire (ie there is no firewire it is a USB port, but again disabled by missing hardware) , and now I see that is is just a I/O using a phonoplug type connectors.
Are J3/J4 just serial connectors?
What my plan for now is to make a bill of materials and reflow them onto the board if I can. I would imagine I can get most of the resistors/diodes/capacitors from digikey and possibly some of the chips, I can always use either find chips or alibaba and order them direct from china too.
My stated end goal is: To add a Ethernet WAN port.
There seems to be two ways to go about this:
1. To purchase a mini-pcie WAN and a mini-pcie splitter but it probable would not be active until I was able to modify the firmware to activate it.
2. To find where the RF signal gets translated to ethernet and add a ethWAN port at that junction. But still need to modify the firmware to recognize this and pass it through as that.
I would also have to control the MAC address for this too work.
Upon review of the consumer model right in front of me and the DIAG model in your pics there is a ton of differences. The JTAG port on the consumer model is completely disabled.(meaning no chips U600/U601, inductance coil (L) a few capacitors and a diode.) Among other multiple places of the board.
I mislabeled the USB and firewire (ie there is no firewire it is a USB port, but again disabled by missing hardware) , and now I see that is is just a I/O using a phonoplug type connectors.
Are J3/J4 just serial connectors?
What my plan for now is to make a bill of materials and reflow them onto the board if I can. I would imagine I can get most of the resistors/diodes/capacitors from digikey and possibly some of the chips, I can always use either find chips or alibaba and order them direct from china too.
My stated end goal is: To add a Ethernet WAN port.
There seems to be two ways to go about this:
1. To purchase a mini-pcie WAN and a mini-pcie splitter but it probable would not be active until I was able to modify the firmware to activate it.
2. To find where the RF signal gets translated to ethernet and add a ethWAN port at that junction. But still need to modify the firmware to recognize this and pass it through as that.
I would also have to control the MAC address for this too work.