Can't load design for PCIe tab in BTS with transceiver starter kit

Dave,

Thanks for the quick reply. What I'm actually after is to use the PCIe connector on the Altera kit as a serial data generator, similar to the SMA connections, but without having to change the jumpers so that the Ethernet port remains functional. I've soldered up some SMA cables to a 1x PCIe edge card connector pins for the Tx and Rx channels, but haven't connected anything to the other pins, such as those used for PRSNT, clocks or JTAG. Any thoughts on how to jumper a PCIe edge card connector or which signals are important to satisfy the Transceiver Starter Kit? Or does this require some active signaling from a host to the kit?

As a newbie, can you point me to a good place to start reading about how to use "Quartus to download the PCIe BTS image", as I've installed it, but haven't used it yet. (Can I use the Board Update Portal to accomplish this if that's easier?)

Do you think I should try to make this work with BTS 11.1 or 10.1?

Finally, if I caved in and did the board mods to the SMA data lines, is the board somehow going to know that I have changed these and thus allow BTS to load the transceiver design? I thought the board mods were just switching the connector used for those lines.

Thanks,

-Kamel