Help: Thunderbolt to Ethernet DSDT edit to show it as built-in

[Liquid Ice]

Hello World, 

 

I have been having issues with the Intel on-board nic on my z77x UP5 TH board. Even with rolled back AppleIntelE1000e.kext version 2.5.4 the nic connection hangs on large file transfers to the SMB NAS. 

 

To avoid the risk of losing work during transferring to the nas, I decided to purchase a thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor from apple. 

 

This works extremely well. Driver support is fantastic (sleep, WOL etc. work OOB). 

 

My goal and what I need help with is doing a DSDT edit to make the Adapter seen as built-in to the OS. So I can make iCloud, FaceTime, app store etc. work. I want to disable the Intel onboard nic via bios to avoid further conflicts.

 

Please let me know if this is even possible. 

 

Thank you, 

 

Liquid_ic

[RehabMan]

Hello World, 

 

I have been having issues with the Intel on-board nic on my z77x UP5 TH board. Even with rolled back AppleIntelE1000e.kext version 2.5.4 the nic connection hangs on large file transfers to the SMB NAS. 

 

To avoid the risk of losing work during transferring to the nas, I decided to purchase a thunderbolt to ethernet adaptor from apple. 

 

This works extremely well. Driver support is fantastic (sleep, WOL etc. work OOB). 

 

My goal and what I need help with is doing a DSDT edit to make the Adapter seen as built-in to the OS. So I can make iCloud, FaceTime, app store etc. work. I want to disable the Intel onboard nic via bios to avoid further conflicts.

 

Please let me know if this is even possible. 

 

Thank you, 

 

Liquid_ic

Not possible, AFAIK. Only truly built-in devices will show as IOBuiltIn=true. The Apple TB->Ethernet adapter plugged into my Apple MacBookAir6,2 shows IOBuiltIn=false.

 

If you don't want the E1000 kext loaded against your onboard Ethernet, you could use NullEthernet.kext, but I fail to see the advantage. E1000 is not likely to cause instability when nothing is plugged into it.