apple thunderbolt gigabit ethernet - get it working?

[daemonix]

Hi,

I run a fully updated v7 on a macmini late 2012, all perfect.

I plugged an apple thunderbolt gigabit ethernet adapter and wasnt identified properly (the ethernet part I think).
dmseg:

[782360.320243] thunderbolt 0-1: new device found, vendor=0x1 device=0x8003
[782360.320248] thunderbolt 0-1: Apple, Inc. Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

root@pve:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
01:00.1 SD Host controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM57765/57785 SDXC/MMC Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 02)
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): LSI Corporation FW643 [TrueFire] PCIe 1394b Controller (rev 08)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge 4C 2012] (rev 03)
05:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge 4C 2012] (rev 03)
05:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge 4C 2012] (rev 03)
05:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge 4C 2012] (rev 03)
05:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge 4C 2012] (rev 03)
05:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge 4C 2012] (rev 03)
06:00.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation DSL3510 Thunderbolt Controller [Cactus Ridge 4C 2012] (rev 03)

Any ideas?

 

[daemonix]

for future reference thunderbolt devices need to be "enrolled" as they are blocked for security reasons.
I almost recompiled the kernel

apt install botl
boltctl list
and:
boltctl enroll UUIDXXXXXXX

All good after that.

 

[jensti]

for future reference:

the package is called bolt not botl

apt install bolt


boltctl list is just empty,
I get an error

reading up on this I notice my bios thunderbolt security level is set to dponly (So it only allows displayport over thunderbolt)
https://daenney.github.io/2017/11/16/linux-thunberbolt-security
This needs to be set to `secure` or `user` in the bios before I can authorize it using boltctl

 

[mk_iiim]

Following up, have you been able to make this work (i.e., thunderbolt passthru)?
Also, out of curiosity, have you been tried/had success in iGPU passthru to a VM?

 

[jensti]

I did not attempt to get thubderbolt passthru working, I just wanted to set up a thunderbolt network between two machines to test out if there would be a performance increas over Gigabith ethernet,
I did not yet get this working, even after authorizing the thunderbolt ports and connections I did not get a network interface like I got on my macbook and my fedora laptop, possibly because networkmanager is not running, I will probably do some more tinkering in the future, because It hink thunderbolt networking might be cheaper to set up than getting 10Gbe

 

[Archetrix]

For anyone ending up here. As of proxmox 8.1 and later it seems you not only need bolt but policykit-1 as well for bolt to work.

sudo apt install bolt policykit-1