Khorne Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I have been looking around the net and found info on adding an SD card to the original FON. Can this be done to the fon +. Any info would be great. Soldering skills are not a problem. Cheers Khorne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Just wait for the new fon to come out with proper usb support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khorne Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Just wait for the new fon to come out with proper usb support. Where is the challenge in that. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
android6011 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I have been looking around the net and found info on adding an SD card to the original FON. Can this be done to the fon +. Any info would be great. Soldering skills are not a problem. Cheers Khorne You probably could but what I find more interesting is what I saw when I took my Fonera+ apart. All the circuitry is there for the USB. However none of the pads have been populated. In fact if you look at: http://home.earthlink.net/~fone/f/fourneras.jpg You'll see the two side by side. A handfull of components and you could turn your fonera+ into a Fonera 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 From the 1.5 to the 2.0 these is a pretty big difference. Not only are they having to now power the fon, but you have added a usb port which requires more power and a way to process the data. And someone had pointed out that by adding the SD card all you are doing is bit banging so it is very slow if you wanted to use it to log data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 From the 1.5 to the 2.0 these is a pretty big difference. Not only are they having to now power the fon, but you have added a usb port which requires more power and a way to process the data. And someone had pointed out that by adding the SD card all you are doing is bit banging so it is very slow if you wanted to use it to log data. That was me. The WRT was bit banging, using GPIO. However looking very briefly at the fonera they appear to be using a different method. From some cursory research the Fonera 2.0 uses a nec d720102Gc controller chip. This appears to be a popular chip and there a chance, albeit a shot in the dark that if you were to buy a the PCI card that see when you Google "nec d720102Gc" There may be enough to get it working on the Fonera+. The big assumption is that the Fonera 2.0 is using a standard reference design. I'm trying to locate the data sheet for the USB controller. A high res picture would make it easier to figure out. Correlate the resistor values to the datasheet's reference designs and assume that capacitors would be the same (they don't silkscreen the capacitors so there's only one way to figure out their value) It just might work. http://www.necel.com/usb/en/product/upd720102.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khorne Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 I was going to populate the empty pads when I get a Fon 2. I will tinker with it and see what I can learn for the time being. Thanks for the info Khorne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdogherman Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 That would be sweet if you could do. Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmaas87 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 anything new on that topic? is it possible to just add an sd-card to the fonera+ 2201 with the usual fon style? (adding it to the normal gpio pins and killing the condensators?) thanks, xeno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Talk to Bikeswine about this, he built one for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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