[GUIDE] SFP+ 10Gb Optical Fiber macOS Ventura

[Andyapple]

SEE POST #61 for my setup guide

Hi, I have
Asus Prime B560-Plus, i5-10400F, Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 3600 MHz, MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8GB OC, Corsair RM650x with Ventura and OpenCore, and I would like to get 10Gb Ethernet (no fiber cable, Ethernet cable) support on my build.
Which Ethernet Card should I buy? I read somewhere of Aquantia Ethernet Cards, but I don't know which model.
Can you tell me what to buy? Thanks,

Andyapple

 

[zipb]

Solo10G 10GBASE-T PCIe Card

10GBASE-T/NBASE-T Ethernet PCI Express 3.0 Adapter Card

www.sonnetstore.com

 

[Edhawk]

SolarFlare SFN5122F 10GbE Dual SFP PCI-e Server Adapter SF329-9021 High Profile, might be worth a look. A lot cheaper than the Sonnet card, on eBay secondhand.

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or

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[Andyapple]

Thank you guys!! @zipb @Edhawk

Do they work OOTB on Ventura? I read something about Aquantia chip. Are those based on It?
I have to find them in my country, Italy.

Thanks a lot!

 

[zipb]

I don't use Ventura, so I don't know. Guess they will, though. For Sonnet, you can ask. They support MacOS.
My Sonnet is Aq107, I think.

 

[Andyapple]

I don't use Ventura, so I don't know. Guess they will, though. For Sonnet, you can ask. They support MacOS.
My Sonnet is Aq107, I think.

Thanks a lot!!

 

[Andyapple]

Can you tell me something about this? I can get it in here in Italy

PCIe 3.0 4x 10G 5G 2.5G 1G Gigabit LAN ETHERNET RJ45 - AQUANTIA AQTION AQC107 3760306793897 | eBay

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[Andyapple]

I found that on Amazon!! Can this be ok?

Scheda PCIe 3.0 4X 10G 5G 2.5G 1G LAN ETHERNET RJ45 - CHIPSET AQUANTIA AQTION AQC107 - Supporto 5 velocità di rete https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0B4X3ZHJQ/?tag=tonymacx86com-21

 

[Andyapple]

This one on Amazon Italy

 

[Edhawk]

Should be fine, as long as you have a spare PCIe x4 slot on your motherboard.

OpenCore 0.8.0 and newer contain a Kernel > Quirks option specific to the Aquantia Ethernet controller, which you will need to enable. See the screenshot below.

Aquantia Ethernet quirk

You will also need to set VT-d as enabled in your BIOS for the Aquantia Ethernet controller to work, if it is not an Aquantia AQtion AQC-107s based 10GbE network card, i.e. is an AQC-107 card.

The AQC-107s variant is natively supported since macOS High Sierra. The non 's' cards require the above fixes.

I am far from an expert on Aquantia Ethernet configurations, maybe @CaseySJ might like to comment, as he has created a number of Kernel Patches and and SSDT for Aquantia 107 and 113 Ethernet cards for AMD systems running Monterey and Ventura.

I am not sure if these patches and the SSDT (when edited) will work the same in an Intel system, so I am reluctant to provide a link to the post he created over at AMD OS X.