Working 10GbE SFP+ NIC

[t33j4y]

@pastrychef
Alright, I've actually managed to scrounge up a Syba SD-PEX24055 which is the one you refer to here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...s-for-10gbe-on-mac-pros.1959937/post-26972577

When it arrives and I get it fired up, I'll post back.

 

[t33j4y]

Got the card today and plugged it in. It is recognized by macOS.

Unfortunately, the connection doesn't come up. Just says "Cable unplugged"

I am connecting to a Ubiquiti USW 10G aggregation switch via a 10m Cat6 cable, hooked into an FS 10G ethernet transceiver.

I am on Catalina 10.15.7

- I can see on the switch that the physical layer seems to be up as it reports a 10G connection.
- I know that the transceiver works as I am using an identical one for connecting my Qnap NAS to the same switch.
- I know that the cable works as I have tested it on a 1G connection to another switch
- I have tried disabling autonegotiate of speed and settings and tried both 1G and 10G manually on both switch and NIC side.

Is there something else I should try? Is there perhaps a FW update I need to apply?

I can boot to Win10 (separate bootdisks) on the same computer and will now try that out.

 

[pastrychef]

Got the card today and plugged it in. It is recognized by macOS.

View attachment 512748

Unfortunately, the connection doesn't come up. Just says "Cable unplugged"

I am connecting to a Ubiquiti USW 10G aggregation switch via a 10m Cat6 cable, hooked into an FS 10G ethernet transceiver.

I am on Catalina 10.15.7

- I can see on the switch that the physical layer seems to be up as it reports a 10G connection.
- I know that the transceiver works as I am using an identical one for connecting my Qnap NAS to the same switch.
- I know that the cable works as I have tested it on a 1G connection to another switch
- I have tried disabling autonegotiate of speed and settings and tried both 1G and 10G manually on both switch and NIC side.

Is there something else I should try? Is there perhaps a FW update I need to apply?

I can boot to Win10 (separate bootdisks) on the same computer and will now try that out.

Try adding the following KextsToPatch in your config.plist:

 

[t33j4y]

I now have the following in my config.plist:

<key>KernelAndKextPatches</key>
<dict>
<key>AppleRTC</key>
<true/>
<key>KernelPm</key>
<true/>
<key>KextsToPatch</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Find</key>
<data>YnVpbHQtaW4=</data>
<key>Name</key>
<string>AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion</string>
<key>Replace</key>
<data>YmJiYmJiYmI=</data>
<key>Disabled</key>
<false/>
<key>Comment</key>
<string>AQC107 patch v3</string>
</dict>
</array>

Still says "Cable unplugged". I tried enabling the NIC in Windows 10, but the card seems finicky. Is detected, but won't start - Error Code 10. I am fearing I might have a dud or something with so old a firmware that it just dies all the time. Or perhaps the NIC HW just doesn't agree with the HW in my repurposed DELL OptiPlex 9020 (OptiMac)

Thank god I paid using PayPal so I can get my money back if it turns out to be a dud.

Anyway, going to spin up a vanilla W10 machine on some old hardware I have and see if I can get it to work in a clean environment, on different hardware. If that doesn't work, the card is going back.

 

[pastrychef]

I now have the following in my config.plist:



Still says "Cable unplugged". I tried enabling the NIC in Windows 10, but the card seems finicky. Is detected, but won't start - Error Code 10. I am fearing I might have a dud or something with so old a firmware that it just dies all the time. Or perhaps the NIC HW just doesn't agree with the HW in my repurposed DELL OptiPlex 9020 (OptiMac)

Thank god I paid using PayPal so I can get my money back if it turns out to be a dud.

Anyway, going to spin up a vanilla W10 machine on some old hardware I have and see if I can get it to work in a clean environment, on different hardware. If that doesn't work, the card is going back.

If it's also not working in Windows, it may very well be a defective card.

 

[t33j4y]

Second W10 machine I dropped it in didn't even recognize it in BIOS :-/

It was probably dying already, which is why I got some semblance of detection of the card at first.

I believe it's a dud now. Dang, it's not like there's a lot of these for sale.

@pastrychef If the Gigabyte branded one you have is also working OOB in Catalina, can you tell me the model name - I'll try and see if I can find that one instead - is it this one?:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07544QS2H/?tag=tonymacx86-21

 

[pastrychef]

Second W10 machine I dropped it in didn't even recognize it in BIOS :-/

It was probably dying already, which is why I got some semblance of detection of the card at first.

I believe it's a dud now. Dang, it's not like there's a lot of these for sale.

@pastrychef If the Gigabyte branded one you have is also working OOB in Catalina, can you tell me the model name - I'll try and see if I can find that one instead - is it this one?:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07544QS2H/?tag=tonymacx86-21

Please see this post. I listed the ones that I know work.

 

[mdelrossi]

Slightly off topic,

Have theQnap 10gbe card and it works great.

However, after I boot into windows and restart back in the the Mac os, it won't connect.

I need to shutdown and pull the power plug to get it to show up again.

Any ideas? its annoying.

Thanks in advance

mdr



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