Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet on Intel Dual DP NUC?
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OK, so I might have bitten off more than I can chew. I have a Gen5 Intel NUC with a couple of Apple Thunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet adapters. I just loaded up the PFSense on a brand new M.2 SSD, it's up running and without issue except it doesn't detect the dongle on load at all. Am I missing something or should it see it (with or without a cable attached)>? I can always force something in loader, but I was hoping that someone would have a BIOS answer or else first.
Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!
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I assume you mean DP is display port. The only thing DisplayPort and thunderbolt have in common is the same connector, so unless the port on the nuc is a thunderbolt port they will never work. Even then it it's thunderbolt, not sure if it had drivers in FreeBSD/pfsense.
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Apple Thunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet adapters.
Are this adapters marked as supported in the FreeBSD Hardware list?
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I have a Gen5 Intel NUC with a couple of Apple Thunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet adapters.
Intel NUCs only have mini-DisplayPort jacks, not Thunderbolt, IIRC. That wouldn't be supposed to work, even though it's the same jack.
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I didn't even think about it being purely display. Quite honestly, I rand my last desktop rig for a few months off of actual Thunderbolt ports, that were driver altered to do DP display. I can see now, Thunderbolt->DP (OK) - DP->Thunderbolt (No way, no service bus behind it).
I started mulling options… this popped up on my radar because there is a free miniPCIe port:
http://www.logicsupply.com/admpeidla/Anyone tried that? It's Intel, it's on the FreeBSD compatibility list (heaven forbid I get the RealTek). I just have to figure out how to gracefully deal with getting it out of the box, etc.
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Maybe these guys have something that can fit your hardware or at least something that can be made to.
They mill the housings themselves. -
Chris - I appreciate it, but that's a bit too heavy of scratch from my pocket. I decided to give up and go another route, of which when I have it done I will post what I did (testing it first). It should be a barn burner for under $500.
