[MK VII internal pin-out?]

On 3/18/2021 at 7:13 PM, BitBang4Life said:

After giving up on the Mk VII for a while due to the device never going past the setup phase, I've decided to give it another go today. Alas, it didn't go much better. After re-flashing everything with 1.0.2, setup failed again with a "Config failed. Please try again". I noticed that the newly created management SSID was there, though... So the config must have been saved, right? I decided to go the UART route, and plugged the thing to a serial port only to find that a file named "setup_required" was hanging around /etc/pineapple. Removed that file, rebooted, bingo. Now I can log in with the password I've just created during the setup that "failed". All nice and good, but now it's time to connect to the internet! Problem now is that the "Select Inteface" list on the Wireless Client Mode is empty. Starting the PineAP fails. The only wireless interfaces on iwconfig are wlan0 and wlan0-1. No wlan1 or wlan2 to be found. Not sure if anyone else is having this issue, or if I'm doing something incredibly wrong, but I'm ready to re-flash my unit into something else. 

For the curious, with the USB ports facing right, the UART pinout is 3.3v - RX - TX - GND.  

I found this, can this be verified with any documentation or maybe a board layout w labels? 

[MK VII internal pin-out?]

I've been searching a bit and haven't found a real answer except for previous models but my question is piggybacking off of this. How can I connect to it using the serial? - Yes I know this is outside warranty and I am only looking because I have a semi broken pineapple. Thank you an advance and sorry to revive an old thread! 

[Issue with Setup on Mark VII]

I did reach out to POTENTIALLY get a warranty something being that I did have the order number but I do not have high hopes so I will open it if that ends up being a dead end. I have confidence in my board soldering skills if I end up finding something broken inside prior to trying this specific thing. 

Thank you for the suggestion and I will be sure to close the loop on this topic when I find some resolve. 

[Issue with Setup on Mark VII]

Yeah I started on the discord channel and I did put in a ticket as suggested so I am going to see where it goes from there, I am still talking to the person I got it from so I put in his order number and such. 

I do find it strange that the setup completes seemingly okay when I do the USB setup because I can get to the login page however it doesn't accept the password from the config file (I even tried a completely unmodified version from the docs). But this is what gave me hope that it might be okay. As for the power, I used three different sources as a test and no change sadly. 

I did try to move the antennas around just to see it maybe it was the screw on portion causing the issue and no change but there was a time when I used all stub antennas that it worked but consistently looped the setup on boot each time (but did not give the error at the end of the setup ~ weird).  

[Issue with Setup on Mark VII]

Honestly that would suck if that were the case but I am trying to have some hope. Any chance this is power related or anything else ?

[Issue with Setup on Mark VII]

Hello, I recently purchased a Mark VII from someone who changed their mind about it and after quite a bit of rebooting, recovering and even trying older firmware I keep getting an error (phy2 MISSING) at the end of the setup process... at least when using the GUI. When I use a USB to configure I had no errors but it was almost as if none of the passwords too (management wifi or root) because they simply did not work however the pineapple did go straight to the login screen which was a sign of hope. See HTML report below: 

 

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                                         .c0WMNk;,NMMW:,xXMMKo.                     
                                         ...:KMMMWMMMMWMMMXc...           .         
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  \ \        / (_|  ____(_) |  __ (_)  ;cKMMMMWk:.;,.;kWMMMMKc;. | |          .OX:  
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Filesystems

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                21.8M     21.8M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                   123.7M     92.0K    123.6M   0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0              1.8G      8.2M      1.7G   0% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay        1.8G      8.2M      1.7G   0% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev

Radios
phy0    ../../devices/platform/10300000.wmac/ieee80211/phy0
phy1    ../../devices/platform/101c0000.ehci/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/ieee80211/phy1
phy2    MISSING
USB

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux 5.4.154 ohci_hcd Generic Platform OHCI controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:7601 MediaTek 802.11 n WLAN
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101  USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux 5.4.154 ehci_hcd EHCI Host Controller