• SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works
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    I have a 2012 Mac Mini. It runs gigabit just fine. Might be a firmware bug that they never patched?

    Edit: And no, I would not take that from Nvidia. But, I don’t think this is intentional, or else my mini would also be affected.

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      1 year ago

      I’m genuinely glad for you and the other poster here who got by unscathed. Maybe we have slightly different chipsets. Mine is bcm57766/b57nd60a.

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        I don’t have the actual mini on hand right now, its serving as a home server and I am on vacation. I’ll check when I get back. Btw, what version of OSX/macOS are you running on? I had no problem with Catalina and even Ventura (OpenCore).

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          I said goodbye to MacOS after PTP stopped working for Android phones (Photos, Image Capture, Lightroom), and the Android File Transfer (MTP) app broke around the same Mac OS upgrade. I would assume they eventually fixed some of that, but I just don’t have any trust left in Apple after all that. My mini is running Windows 10 now, with the bootcamp drivers.

          edit: I think Catalina was the last release I had used on it before wiping it for Windows. I definitely went up to Mojave, but pretty sure I tried Catalina too.

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            Ah, alright. Does gigabit work for you in windows? If it doesn’t, you can try installing Catalina and updating the Bootcamp drivers.

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              Does gigabit work for you in windows?

              Unfortunately no, hence why I suspect it was a firmware update, not just a driver bug.

              If it doesn’t, you can try installing Catalina and updating the Bootcamp drivers.

              maybe. but I wouldn’t want to deal with messing with bootloaders again if it breaks my Windows install.