Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 00:40:58 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: clutton <clutton@zoho.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: thinkpad carbon 5thgen + thunderbolt 3 dock Message-ID: <20180109004058.2f6c096d@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <1515449761.3483.14.camel@zoho.com> References: <1515449761.3483.14.camel@zoho.com>
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On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:16:01 +0200 clutton <clutton@zoho.com> wrote: > Hi list. > > I have a thinkpad carbon 5th gen with ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock. The > notebook doesn't work well with dock station, and I'm looking forward > for some suggestions. Here it goes: > > > 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? ath usually works well, but Lenovo uses a BIOS whitelist of supported devices, so you're probably out of luck. > > 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. Is this similar to anything described in those bugs? https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211713#c9 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224064 -m > > 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. > > Here is the device being seen (a lot of pcib*): > pcib5@pci0:6:0:0: class=0x060400 card=0x11112222 chip=0x15d38086 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x01 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > device = 'JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine Ridge > 4C 2016]' > class = bridge > subclass = PCI-PCI > > > 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. -- Michael Gmelin
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