Sonnet GE1000LAB-E Presto Gigabit Ethernet card (DRIVER ON BUG REPORT WITH APPLE)

[kjbumbarger]

The PDF on this site went away, I guess, but it was there yesterday.

If you are running the card in the subject line, there is a note in the compatibility update for High Sierra that the card uses native drivers in macOS, and it is broken. In my build it shows no installed Ethernet cards. The PDF states that there is a bug report filed with apple to have it fixed.

https://www.sonnettech.com/support/charts/highsierra/index.html

 

[pastrychef]

Is this the PDF you were looking for?

 

[kjbumbarger]

No sorry, that is the compatibility list for Sierra not High Sierra. The link I sent has a broken link to the High Sierra PDF. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Maybe they are updating it.

 

[pastrychef]

Did you look at the PDF?

 

[kjbumbarger]

My apologies, you're right! They must have combined the PDFs. Last night i found one for each version of the OS.

If you look at note (5): "The Presto Gigabit Ethernet Pro uses an Apple macOS naive driver. Sonnet has filed a bug report with Apple. "

Hoping they fix this soon. I added this thread as an FYI for anyone else running this card.

(luckily my wifi still works!)

 

[pastrychef]

I think that compatibility with the GE1000LAB-E has been broken since 10.13.0. Not sure if compatibility will ever be restored.

You can probably find a NIC that works with IntelMausiEthernet.kext or RealtekRTL8111.kext for pretty cheap now...

 

[Snoots]

I think that compatibility with the GE1000LAB-E has been broken since 10.13.0. Not sure if compatibility will ever be restored.

You can probably find a NIC that works with IntelMausiEthernet.kext or RealtekRTL8111.kext for pretty cheap now...

I think some use this board specifically for it's macOS native AVB audio support. My MOTU AVB interface can use the MAC network card for hi resolution audio for recording over the ethernet to other AVB enabled devices/PCs... There is a work around that involves using the older apple driver which i have applied and it works until the next apple update ( like many hackintosh solutions ) i got that information from another thread here.

 

[Snoots]

This appears to work with latest update without rolling back to Sierra driver

 

[Snoots]

Both my machines are still working after 10.13.4 update

 

[kjbumbarger]

I just applied the update and the network card is now showing but is saying that the cable is disconnected. I'll try a new cable when i can dig one out of storage.