5G card on the PCI-E and not USB 2.0

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#1

Hi, I have a 5G card from Quectel RM500Q-GL (the most popular one everyone is using ) in the Odyssey. I run ubuntu 20.10 with modem manager 1.14.2. and I see that it is by default connected on the data interface with USB 2.0

sherlock@dt-minion-1:~$ sudo lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/001/007
Device: ID 2c7c:0800 Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd.
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.10
  bDeviceClass            0
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x2c7c Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd.
  idProduct          0x0800
  bcdDevice            4.14
  iManufacturer           1 Quectel
  iProduct                2 RM500Q-GL

This will be limiting on the 5G network with wide 80-100 MHz channel that should hit close to 1Gbps
Does anyone knows how to set that card to USB 3 Superspeed or native PCI-E mode?
It looks it should be supported. Does Odyssey suports USB3 on that M.2 connector?

wSpeedsSupported   0x000f
  Device can operate at Low Speed (1Mbps)
  Device can operate at Full Speed (12Mbps)
  Device can operate at High Speed (480Mbps)
  Device can operate at SuperSpeed (5Gbps)
bFunctionalitySupport   1
  Lowest fully-functional device speed is Full Speed (12Mbps)
bU1DevExitLat           1 micro seconds
bU2DevExitLat         500 micro seconds
  SuperSpeedPlus USB Device Capability:
bLength                20
bDescriptorType        16
bDevCapabilityType     10
bmAttributes         0x00000001
  Sublink Speed Attribute count 1
  Sublink Speed ID count 0
wFunctionalitySupport   0x1100
bmSublinkSpeedAttr[0]   0x000a4030
  Speed Attribute ID: 0 10Gb/s Symmetric RX SuperSpeedPlus
bmSublinkSpeedAttr[1]   0x000a40b0
  Speed Attribute ID: 0 10Gb/s Symmetric TX SuperSpeedPlus
#2

@Maciej_Eckstein Odyssey gen1 only\ has USB2.0 and sata3 on B key.

#3

Is there an gen2 Odyssey and is it already released? if no when? will it have USB 3.0 on the B key?

Alternatively can the module be inserted into the top M keyed slot and used in the PCI-e x4 mode?
Anyone tried that?

#4

Gen 2 will be soon, PCIE preset on the B key.

#5

how soon? give some hint? as I will move to up-squared boards, if that is not like 2 weeks, I hit limits on the 5G cards and need USB3 connection on modem.

#6

Is the “v2” Odyssey the gen 2 version? And does it really have PCIe on the M.2 B key? Because the data sheet for the v2 still says “M.2(Key B, 2242/2280): SATA III, USB2.0, UIM;” and doesn’t mention PCIe for the B key at all.

#7

We don’t have any more PCIe available for B-key.