Hegabo
April 27, 2019, 11:16pm
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I've recently purchased a MikroTik RBM33G that I'm using with a Sierra Wireless MC7455. This modem wasn't being recognized, and I just learned today that 6 pins on this mPCIe card need to be taped to work with this Routerboard. I've tested it today, and it works with these "USB3" pins taped.
I move this modem around occasionally, and I can already see taping is going to be an on-going hassle. Anybody know if there's a way to deal with this in OpenWRT? The pins that need to be ignored on the…
Also as a temporary work around the USB 3.0 issue to see if it's the problem, you could just use a USB 2.0 extension cable between the card and the router.
You could go through this https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/storage/usb-installing to check USB support.