10gbe on M1 Mac post MacOS 11.3?

[understudyhero]

I have an AC107 card in a TB2 (with TB3 adaptor) for 10gb on a Mac mini M1.
Anything greater than 11.2 and the card is not recognized.

I also have a M1 and Intel Mac running 11.2, everything is fine so it's confirmed that it's 11.3 killing it.

Does anyone have a TB3 10gbe solution that works with 11.3? I am getting desperate and frustrated.
Especially since we are now on the third public beta and it's not working.
If I was running a hackintosh I would be understanding, but this is a Mac compatible card in a thunderbolt enclosure which is the very purpose of thunderbolt right? And I know it's something the os broke since it works in 11.2.

 

[joevt]

Using System Information.app, does the TB2 enclosure appear in the Thunderbolt list? Does the card appear in the PCIe list?

Find out what driver is being used in 11.2, then see if the driver changed in 11.3 (compare the Info.plist file in the kexts).

Do you have a different card you can put in the TB2 enclosure, to see if the problem is the TB2 enclosure itself?

 

[Chancha]

Maybe try disabling SIP. The recent report of Apple changing kext policy rings to mind, but it shouldn't be enforced until macOS 12 let alone a Big Sur point release.

 

[Superhai]

Try to make a bug report to Apple.

 

[chrfr]

Maybe try disabling SIP. The recent report of Apple changing kext policy rings to mind, but it shouldn't be enforced until macOS 12 let alone a Big Sur point release.

This sounds like exactly the sort of thing Apple will roll out mid-cycle with Big Sur. Apple makes these sorts of changes every year in the middle of the release cycle.

 

[Gnattu]

Everything could happen in public beta, and this is the exact reason I choose not to join such "public beta program" years ago. The correct thing you should do is using the feedback assistant included in the beta and report this to Apple.

 

[understudyhero]

Everything could happen in public beta, and this is the exact reason I choose not to join such "public beta program" years ago. The correct thing you should do is using the feedback assistant included in the beta and report this to Apple.

I have used the feedback, since the first beta of 13.3 to no avail.

 

[understudyhero]

Using System Information.app, does the TB2 enclosure appear in the Thunderbolt list? Does the card appear in the PCIe list?

Find out what driver is being used in 11.2, then see if the driver changed in 11.3 (compare the Info.plist file in the kexts).

Do you have a different card you can put in the TB2 enclosure, to see if the problem is the TB2 enclosure itself?

It uses the Apple Aquantia kext under 11.2, it's the same chipset as the one in the 10gb Intel Macs.

The enclosure is read correctly under 11.3, the PCI card specifically says ethernet no driver under 11.3 but list it correctly when under 11.2. They are def. different versions of the Kext when looking at them.

All the stuff I see to "Correct" the problem hackintosh open core fixes for 13.0... I haven't seen anyone with real apple hard ware having the issue except one guy here with a TB3 pro dock with 10gbe and I don't think he got his problem resolved either.

 

[understudyhero]

Everything could happen in public beta, and this is the exact reason I choose not to join such "public beta program" years ago. The correct thing you should do is using the feedback assistant included in the beta and report this to Apple.

You realize this inexactly why public betas are important... this is on my M1 desktop, I can't afford to have my intel or laptop break so this is the guinea pig. If it goes to 13.3 public release and it's still not working I am going to stick to 13.2 on those machines.

 

[jdb8167]

You realize this inexactly why public betas are important... this is on my M1 desktop, I can't afford to have my intel or laptop break so this is the guinea pig. If it goes to 13.3 public release and it's still not working I am going to stick to 13.2 on those machines.

It would be interesting to know if it is also broken on Intel. Do you have an external drive you could install the Beta on to test? Anyway, good luck, even if you get no reply via Feedback Assistant, sometimes they still fix things.

 

[Chancha]

If you run both a 11.2 and 11.3beta concurrently, can you try to locate the AC kext in both system to see if they match
System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/

In my M1 Air 11.2.2 install there seem to be three Aquantia related:
AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion.kext
AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtionFirmware.kext
AppleI2CEthernetAquantia.kext

If it is just a matter of 11.3beta have them missing, maybe try copying them over from your 11.2 install. Of course if Apple removed them on purpose it is likely their presence will induce instability, but worth a try.