iPXE and USB-C

[speleo14]

(2017-02-24 21:12)NiKiZe Wrote:  There might be some known issues with those Realtek chipsets.
Try booting into ipxe, then unplug and replug the device and run ifstat again to see what it detects and try dhcp to see what you get.

The Realtek NICs are no longer detected after unplugging an re-plugging.
The Apple USB-Ethernet is detected and dhcp results in "configuring......ok"

The Apple USB-Ethernet NICs are the ones with which I seem to get furthest - however, I'd prefer not to work with them since they are 10 Mbit Just included them for testing...
Maybe I should try and get USB-C-Ethernet NICs from other manufacturers?

(2017-02-24 21:12)NiKiZe Wrote:  Let's just work with one device and try to compare. Since internet boot works the NII driver should work as well, if not it is a bug in the Apple firmware in regards to efi sepecification.

and adapter or not is the exact same thing. there is no Thunderbolt support in iPXE so that would only work with the NII driver if at all.

Well, Thunderbolt-Ethernet works absolutely fine with older MacBooks Pro (all of them actually, except now the newest ones with USB-C).
However, they fail on iMacs Late 2015 (where the internal NIC doesn't work either, there's a thread about this here too).