That card should work fine. I used that same model for quite a long time with no problems at all. I think when I first started using it, I was on El Capitan and they continued to work fine all the way to High Sierra.
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10GbE NIC for Mac OS X?
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That card should work fine. I used that same model for quite a long time with no problems at all. I think when I first started using it, I was on El Capitan and they continued to work fine all the way to High Sierra.
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Not connected to the internet - The only network connection will be a direct 10GB connection to a Dell 2U server running FreeNAS. This Mac hosts a SAS connection to our LTO library, and will be used exclusively for that purpose.
With drivers built for Mavericks, I would think I'll have an even harder time getting them to work on Sierra than I do on Yosemite.
As I stated earlier, by the time I got my SolarFlare card, I was already on El Capitan. All I had to do was plug the card in and install the drivers. Done. I believe I had the card plugged in to PCI-e port 3.
I think there were some firmware settings that you can configure from Windows. You may want to look in to those setting to see if they the cause of your problems. In particular, check the PXE and iSCSI booting options.
So after a clean install of Mojave (10.14.0), I went to get the driver from SolarFlare and they won't install successfully. S
I get a generic error from the Installer.app executed by "Solarflare10GbE.pkg" Source:
Here's the log if anyone has ideas? (/Library/Application\ Support/Solarflare10GbE/postflight.log)
/Library/Extensions/Solarflare10GbE.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) system policy prevents loading; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
Installer Log:
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air installd[403]: PackageKit: Install Failed: Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=112 "An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”." UserInfo={NSFilePath=./postflight, NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/Solarflare10GbE-3.3.4.6349-signed/Solarflare10GbE.pkg, PKInstallPackageIdentifier=com.solarflare.pkg.Solarflare10GbE, NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”.} {
NSFilePath = "./postflight";
NSLocalizedDescription = "An error occurred while running scripts from the package \U201cSolarflare10GbE.pkg\U201d.";
NSURL = "file://localhost/Volumes/Solarflare10GbE-3.3.4.6349-signed/Solarflare10GbE.pkg";
PKInstallPackageIdentifier = "com.solarflare.pkg.Solarflare10GbE";
}
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air installd[403]: PackageKit: Running idle tasks
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air Installer[15717]: install:didFailWithError:Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=112 "An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”." UserInfo={NSFilePath=./postflight, NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/Solarflare10GbE-3.3.4.6349-signed/Solarflare10GbE.pkg, PKInstallPackageIdentifier=com.solarflare.pkg.Solarflare10GbE, NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”.}
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air installd[403]: PackageKit: Removing client PKInstallDaemonClient pid=15717, uid=501 (/System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer)
I get a generic error from the Installer.app executed by "Solarflare10GbE.pkg" Source:
Here's the log if anyone has ideas? (/Library/Application\ Support/Solarflare10GbE/postflight.log)
/Library/Extensions/Solarflare10GbE.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) system policy prevents loading; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
Installer Log:
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air installd[403]: PackageKit: Install Failed: Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=112 "An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”." UserInfo={NSFilePath=./postflight, NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/Solarflare10GbE-3.3.4.6349-signed/Solarflare10GbE.pkg, PKInstallPackageIdentifier=com.solarflare.pkg.Solarflare10GbE, NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”.} {
NSFilePath = "./postflight";
NSLocalizedDescription = "An error occurred while running scripts from the package \U201cSolarflare10GbE.pkg\U201d.";
NSURL = "file://localhost/Volumes/Solarflare10GbE-3.3.4.6349-signed/Solarflare10GbE.pkg";
PKInstallPackageIdentifier = "com.solarflare.pkg.Solarflare10GbE";
}
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air installd[403]: PackageKit: Running idle tasks
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air Installer[15717]: install:didFailWithError:Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=112 "An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”." UserInfo={NSFilePath=./postflight, NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/Solarflare10GbE-3.3.4.6349-signed/Solarflare10GbE.pkg, PKInstallPackageIdentifier=com.solarflare.pkg.Solarflare10GbE, NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred while running scripts from the package “Solarflare10GbE.pkg”.}
Dec 9 15:35:12 Nicks-Air installd[403]: PackageKit: Removing client PKInstallDaemonClient pid=15717, uid=501 (/System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer)
This used to work for High Sierra. I’d expect Mojave to be similar:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2459/_index.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2459/_index.html
You could always sell the SolarFlare card and get an Intel instead:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...nics-to-use-small-tree-macos-drivers.1968456/
Thanks Slash, I will give this a shot.
And eventually I will get an Intel card, but I'd love to get it working again since the hardware is perfectly fine today.
This worked perfectly, and was good to finally have documentation from Apple that explains how the kext authorization works in the Security/Privacy pane. Thanks!
Glad to hear it worked for you. Also glad to hear they didn’t break it in Mojave.