Power & Source of Big Ideas

It was definitely bad idea to use 3V3_SYS as PCIE card power supply. So i connected 5V to external 3V3 LDO and used it as realtek card power supply. I was able to boot with Armbian 20.05.2 Focal / 5.4.43 and PCIE card seems to be working. Seems like my setup has some problems with PCIE soft reset, e...
I was finally able to enable Realtek RTL8111F PCIE x1 GbE network card utilizing Nanopi-Neo4 GPIO 40 pin slot. It seems to be working as expected. Armbian Focal / kernel 5.6.14 IMG_20200605_202615.jpg Only 8(9) wires used: PCI-E TX0n/TX0p - 1 pair PCI-E RX0n/RX0p - 1 pair PCIE_REF_CLKP/CLKN - 1 pair...
Hello, I would like to connect external PCI-E 1x device (Realtek 8111C GbE network card) to Neo4 GPIO1 slot for some testing purposes using short wires or making pcb adapter. It is easy to find RX0 / TX0 / Clock pairs as well as 3V3 / GND power supply on Neo4 GPIO1 connector. The question is about f...