Use Turris Omnia as VDSL-Modem?

Turris Omnia
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Hi all,

do you think there might be the possibility to add a PCIe-VDSL-modem in order to eliminate the otherwise mandatory extra-equpiment…?

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Short: no, Long: maybe yes but not PCIe but SFP.

You mean the shiny new DrayTek VigorNIC 132?
This card hosts a complete VDSL router.

I think this will be something like a Vigor 130 / Vigor 2760 and a network chip like RTL8169 on a PCIexpress card. So it still is a full bunch of extra equipment.

There is at least one more useful thing out there: VDSL modem via SFP
Getting it seems impossible but these kind of devices exist and are probably the best way to add these to the Turris Omnia.

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Hey,

i am also waiting for the VDSL modem via SFP to become available but i was wondering if it might be possible to connect the DrayTek VigorNIC via a PCIe to mini PCIe connector like this one Mini PCI Express > PCI Express.

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Hm… but what to do if you want to connect a landline telephone?

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It will definitely not fit the box. Otherwise if there are Linux drivers in 4.4 kernel and mini PCIe to PCIe wouldn’t mess up too much it might work. So I have no idea apart from dimensions.

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In old notebooks there were miniPCI 56k modems, I bet there is still plenty of those available on ebay. That might work, but most probably nobody tested it.

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Hey,
yes for sure it will definitely not fit the box, maybe the NAS box. Driver should not be a problem because DrayTek lists support for Linux “Linux: Redhat, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Debian (32/64bit)”.