

Thunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet Adapter for Macs with Thunderbolt Ports (but maybe the system tries to turn it on and fails on that?)įrom this correlation between the display and the ethernet, it seems the real problem is in the thunderbolt driver, not in the ethernet.The Single-adapter Solution for Connecting to Pro Tools | Carbon To me this problem seems not related to WiFi as I always have it off. Sometimes opening the laptop then helps out. It takes about 5 minutes before the laptop then finally goes to sleep. If I also unplug the display then the computer (which is in clamshell mode) seems to hang up instead of going to sleep. Plugging back the ethernet connector then sometimes restores the display but the ethernet is still broken then. The computer does not crash, sometimes I hear audio continue to play for instance. Often when I unplug the thunderbolt-ethernet connector from the mac's thunderbolt port, my thunderbolt (display port) DISPLAY connected to the other thunderbolt slot goes black. There is another problem related to this. Under Network - Thunderbolt Ethernet it states: Thunderbolt Ethernet: Under system information - thunderbolt it states Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter:ĭevice Name: Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Not plugged in or the device at the other end Under network settings, there is a red dot and not connected on "Thund.thernet".Įither the cable for Thunderbolt Ethernet is How can I force thunderbolt to ethernet to connect without restarting the computer? More details: Restarting the computer fixes the problem, however, I don't want to have to restart my computer. It seems to occur when I switch network locations (e.g., I move from my home network to my work network). Sometimes the thunderbolt to ethernet connection does not work.


I have a thunderbolt to ethernet cable on a MacBookPro Retina on Lion.
