[delokaver] figured out how to use these 3G cards over USB instead ... The modem relies on the 3.3V power from the Mini PCI-e slot instead of the 5V from USB. No problem, just get a low-dropout ...
This showed that the Raspberry Pi would happily talk with a VL805-based USB 3.0 PCIe expansion card, as well as a Realtek RTL8111-based Ethernet card, but not a number of other PCIe cards.
An adapter makes the Raspberry Pi 5 ready for two M.2 cards with PCI Express 3.0. Seeed Studio relies on Asmedia's PCIe 3.0 switch ASM2806 for this. It is connected via the single PCIe lane of the ...