Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)

[clutton]

On Sun, 2018-01-07 at 21:03 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > On 7. Jan 2018, at 20:43, clutton <clutton at zoho.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 15:58 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > Running carbon 5th gen I can't call my setup a success. Wireless
> > iwm
> > doesn't support even N and AC is not supported at all. The wifi is
> > much
> > slower then on my old machines. I'm going to replace the wifi card
> > in
> > mean time, any suggestions which one to buy?
> > 
> > Graphics works perfectly. NVMe SSD with OPAL wouldn't allow machine
> > to
> > resume from sleep, sometimes it does after big timeout and writing
> > errors to console, sometime it just reboots.
> > 
> > Thinkpad Thunderbolt Dock Station, here is where things get
> > interesting. If I boot machine connected to dock station,
> > peripheral
> > devices would work, external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. There's
> > no
> > other way I know to make it work. Once detached - it wouldn't see
> > devices again. Booting and THEN attaching - the same, machine
> > wouldn't
> > see devices.
> > 
> > Here is the device being seen (a lot of pcib*):
> > pcib5 at pci0:6:0:0:    class=0x060400 card=0x11112222 chip=0x15d38086
> > rev=0x02 hdr=0x01
> >    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> >    device     = 'JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine
> > Ridge
> > 4C 2016]'
> >    class      = bridge
> >    subclass   = PCI-PCI
> > 
> > 
> > For me the main concern is Thunderbolt thought, docking station is
> > amazing thing. Any ideas and thought how to make it work would be
> > highly appreciated.
> 
> In my setup, plug/unplug events for display port don't work when
> docking (usually I'm not using a dock though). This means: Mouse,
> Keyboard can be plugged/unplugged as many time as I want at any
> point, while displays connected over display port only work when
> connected before starting X (and they don't disappear after
> disconnecting). Note that stopping X seems to fix this (so no reboot
> required), but I don't have the docking station myself (this is the
> Ultra Dock Pro or something - the one that connects at the bottom of
> the laptop).

The newest dock is going through one cable: thunderbolt 3. In my case
display disappear after undocking, then it wouldn't appear again, I'll
try restarting X, but at that point it is similarly to restart, I have
to quit my vim and other things.
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