guard_N_gnpm3 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 I was curious if anyone knew what the4 pins internally on the MK VII are? I assumed it was USB and so tried a 4 pin header to USB-A cable with the thought of maybe shucking my Alfa, modding the case for a couple more antenna and having some 802.11AC, leaving the external port available for something else. A POC test on a couple adapters with the cable on the 4 pin and nothing is being detected. The MK VII reboots if you remove/replace an adapter while hot, so I'm starting to think I'm flat wrong, or maybe I've got a short in the cable. Also flipping the header on the pins and I get no boot at all. Of course I'll keep tinkering, because that's what we do, but it would be nice to know if I was chasing my tail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Foxtrot Posted September 21, 2020 Solution Share Posted September 21, 2020 The four pins are UART serial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guard_N_gnpm3 Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 On 9/21/2020 at 9:50 AM, Foxtrot said: The four pins are UART serial. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleckane404 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleckane404 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_pyrro Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Since it's not an officially supported way of accessing the Pineapple, it's not part of any customer documentation. I have used the mentioned/quoted pinout, and it has worked for me since a long time back. The 3.3V pin isn't really needed though since the Pineapple will be powered on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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