High Sierra native support for 10Gb ethernet

[freaksavior]

I had not tried that yet, but it was on my list of things to try; I'll do it tonight and report back.

 

[freaksavior]

Unfortunately, that did not help.

Both of the NICs do still show up and both systems performance about the same.

freaksavior$ iperf3 -P 10 -c 192.168.1.115
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.64 GBytes 1.41 Gbits/sec

I do appreciate the help and feedback. Looks like I'll need to get different NICs.

 

[sanke1]

My AQC-107 (non-S) card works OOB.
View attachment 414373
Source: http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=985

There has also been reports that the newer revisions of the Asus XG-C100C work OOB.

Syba has incorrectly mentioned non-s card. As per Aquantia engineer I spoke with, Syba cards are indeed AQC-107S.

 

[illusion3110]

I have a Sonnet Solo10G Pcie and I can not make it work.
It is updated to latest firmware.
I am using CAT6 5m patch cable to connect it directly to Imac with Sonnet Solo10g TB3..

I made my build following shiloh thread for Asus Rampage iv Extreme.
I have GTX 970, Areca 1882, Sonnet Allegro 3.1, Decklink Mini Monitor and Innateck 4006.
Everything works flawlessly.

Only Sonnet Solo10G Pcie is giving me a headache since it should work OODB.

I can see NIC is in system report and ioreg.
The card is there in network preferences but it just stays red no matter what I do.
The physical light on NIC is green and connection is also green on my iMac network preferences with Sonnet solo10g TB3.

The interesting part is while I still had my internal Intel NIC enabled (not connected to anything) network preferences showed connection on that NIC when I connected Sonnet Solo10g to my iMac..
I disabled Intel NIC and removed kext and removed all SSDTs and still RED (not connected) in network preferences.

I searched everywhere for an answer but with no luck so far.

Any help would be greatly appreciated since I do not know what to do anymore...

 

[sanke1]

I have a Sonnet Solo10G Pcie and I can not make it work.
It is updated to latest firmware.
I am using CAT6 5m patch cable to connect it directly to Imac with Sonnet Solo10g TB3..

I made my build following shiloh thread for Asus Rampage iv Extreme.
I have GTX 970, Areca 1882, Sonnet Allegro 3.1, Decklink Mini Monitor and Innateck 4006.
Everything works flawlessly.

Only Sonnet Solo10G Pcie is giving me a headache since it should work OODB.

I can see NIC is in system report and ioreg.
The card is there in network preferences but it just stays red no matter what I do.
The physical light on NIC is green and connection is also green on my iMac network preferences with Sonnet solo10g TB3.

The interesting part is while I still had my internal Intel NIC enabled (not connected to anything) network preferences showed connection on that NIC when I connected Sonnet Solo10g to my iMac..
I disabled Intel NIC and removed kext and removed all SSDTs and still RED (not connected) in network preferences.

I searched everywhere for an answer but with no luck so far.

Any help would be greatly appreciated since I do not know what to do anymore...

Have you installed the Solo card in any different PCIe slot? It requires 4 PCIe lanes. GPU takes 16 lanes and NVMe drive takes 4 lanes. Motherboards have 20 to 24 lanes (Non HEDT ones) So please check if you are over your lane limit.
Get in touch with Sonnet support. If they have advertised it to work with macOS then it should work out of the box. See if they can send you a replacement. If not....
Return it if possible and buy Syba Card. Really not worth the hassle.

It is not advisable to continue to use cards with Kext Patches as they might get blocked with any future updates. It is a cat and mouse game and we need to minimize the risks wherever we can.

 

[ydeng]

I have a Sonnet Solo10G Pcie and I can not make it work.
It is updated to latest firmware.
I am using CAT6 5m patch cable to connect it directly to Imac with Sonnet Solo10g TB3..

I made my build following shiloh thread for Asus Rampage iv Extreme.
I have GTX 970, Areca 1882, Sonnet Allegro 3.1, Decklink Mini Monitor and Innateck 4006.
Everything works flawlessly.

Only Sonnet Solo10G Pcie is giving me a headache since it should work OODB.

I can see NIC is in system report and ioreg.
The card is there in network preferences but it just stays red no matter what I do.
The physical light on NIC is green and connection is also green on my iMac network preferences with Sonnet solo10g TB3.

The interesting part is while I still had my internal Intel NIC enabled (not connected to anything) network preferences showed connection on that NIC when I connected Sonnet Solo10g to my iMac..
I disabled Intel NIC and removed kext and removed all SSDTs and still RED (not connected) in network preferences.

I searched everywhere for an answer but with no luck so far.

Any help would be greatly appreciated since I do not know what to do anymore...

Do you see "built-in" in IOService plane? If you do, check IOACPIPlane, if "built-in" is there, you need to patch it away (post 434) or as Sonnet support to disable that in firmware.

 

[illusion3110]

Motherboards have 20 to 24 lanes (Non HEDT ones) So please check if you are over your lane limit.

I have 4 x16 PCIe3 lanes in x16/x8/x8/x8 mode and two x1 Lanes
x16 is GPU and x8 are Areca 1882, Sonnet Allegro USB 3.1 and Sonnet Solo10g.
x1 lanes are Decklink Mini Monitor and Innateck 4006 USB3

Do you see "built-in" in IOService plane?

I do not see "built-in"... I attached screenshots.
But I also don't see the NIC in IOACPIPlane like on your screenshots.

 

[pastrychef]

I have 4 x16 PCIe3 lanes in x16/x8/x8/x8 mode and two x1 Lanes
x16 is GPU and x8 are Areca 1882, Sonnet Allegro USB 3.1 and Sonnet Solo10g.
x1 lanes are Decklink Mini Monitor and Innateck 4006 USB3



I do not see "built-in"... I attached screenshots.
But I also don't see the NIC in IOACPIPlane like on your screenshots.

I highly doubt the issue is with PCI-e lanes. I've jury-rigged my AQC107 based card in to a PCI-e x1 slot and it worked fine, albeit at 5GBase-T speeds.

 

[illusion3110]

My onboard intel 1Gbe NIC showed connection in network preferences (even though there was no cable) when I connected 10Gbe NIC.
I then disabled onboard 1Gbe NIC and removed the kext but that did no help.
I also removed SSDT which Shilohh made for onboard devices but that did not help either.
I would have to modify that SSDT but I don't know how...

 

[apocalysque]

I can confirm Aquantia AQtion 10G Gaming NIC (AQN-107) works natively. I had originally purchased the AQN/AQC-100 (SFP+ port instead of RJ-45) but that card wasn't detected and I'm not smart enough to hack any kexts to get it working. My 10Gbe switch has SFP+ ports so I just bought a 10GBase-T transceiver to plug the cat7 cable into.