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Date:      Sun, 7 Jan 2018 21:03:56 +0100
From:      Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To:        clutton <clutton@zoho.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)
Message-ID:  <2DE656BF-161A-4A06-98CA-3B024B2263B4@grem.de>
In-Reply-To: <1515354236.1383.6.camel@zoho.com>
References:  <20171230155857.3ba51994@bsd64.grem.de> <1515354236.1383.6.camel@zoho.com>

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> On 7. Jan 2018, at 20:43, clutton <clutton@zoho.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 15:58 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>=20
> Running carbon 5th gen I can't call my setup a success. Wireless iwm
> doesn't support even N and AC is not supported at all. The wifi is much
> slower then on my old machines. I'm going to replace the wifi card in
> mean time, any suggestions which one to buy?
>=20
> Graphics works perfectly. NVMe SSD with OPAL wouldn't allow machine to
> resume from sleep, sometimes it does after big timeout and writing
> errors to console, sometime it just reboots.
>=20
> Thinkpad Thunderbolt Dock Station, here is where things get
> interesting. If I boot machine connected to dock station, peripheral
> devices would work, external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. There's no
> other way I know to make it work. Once detached - it wouldn't see
> devices again. Booting and THEN attaching - the same, machine wouldn't
> see devices.
>=20
> Here is the device being seen (a lot of pcib*):
> pcib5@pci0:6:0:0:    class=3D0x060400 card=3D0x11112222 chip=3D0x15d38086
> rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x01
>    vendor     =3D 'Intel Corporation'
>    device     =3D 'JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine Ridge
> 4C 2016]'
>    class      =3D bridge
>    subclass   =3D PCI-PCI
>=20
>=20
> For me the main concern is Thunderbolt thought, docking station is
> amazing thing. Any ideas and thought how to make it work would be
> highly appreciated.

In my setup, plug/unplug events for display port don't work when docking (us=
ually I'm not using a dock though). This means: Mouse, Keyboard can be plugg=
ed/unplugged as many time as I want at any point, while displays connected o=
ver display port only work when connected before starting X (and they don't d=
isappear after disconnecting). Note that stopping X seems to fix this (so no=
 reboot required), but I don't have the docking station myself (this is the U=
ltra Dock Pro or something - the one that connects at the bottom of the lapt=
op).

Also, in my setup wifi didn't work without adding iwm0 explicitly to cloned i=
nterfaces (which isn't something I wouldn't expect I have to do, but in this=
 case I had to).

-m







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