Hi guys,
I'm seeing an unexpected phenomenon when connecting a Thunderbolt docking station with an RJ-45 jack to my WRT1900AC via CAT-5e Ethernet cable. I expect to connect automagically but it doesn't, even though the indicators on both sides say everything's fine. I'm running OSX Mavericks (10.9.3) and in Network Preferences I see the adaptor is not active. Same goes for typing 'ifconfig' in the terminal.
I worked around this by manually configuring my docking station's Ethernet port, setting it as "1000baseT" with flow-control. It still took a few seconds to register but it does connect now.
What's the cause of this? Can the Linksys firmware team fix this? This was a deal-breaker until I found a workaround as I use wired connections frequently.
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