Gigabit ethernet support for Mac Mini on Vista
The last few days I spent getting a Mac Mini running with Vista Ultimate to replace the PC running XP media center in my living room. The whole process was very enlightening, so I plan on writing up about the entire experience sometime soon. Stay tuned for that.
In the meantime, I’m trying to find a solution to a network problem I’ve been having. The one problem I’m having right now is getting gigabit ethernet to work on the Mac Mini. I have all the Cat5e or Cat 6 cabling and gigabit switches at home with other devices functioning properly. The Mac Mini refuses to connect to the switch at gigabit speeds. I’ve quadruple checked the cable, even trying the same cable on another device and it succesfully connects at gigabit speeds.
I posted up a question on the Apple Support forums here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5355039
However, no luck in finding a solution yet. Does anyone have this working?
Update (4/21/2008): My gigabit ethernet is now working on my Mac Mini after applying the latest Marvell driver.
Have you found a solution? I can’t get my 1.66 Core Duo MacMini to connect in Gigabit mode. My MacBook Pro connects just fine using the same cable and switch.
Raul Silva
19 Mar 08 at 4:26 am
Raul, Unfortunately I still haven’t solved this. No idea why it’s not working. If you find out, let me know
Trevin
19 Mar 08 at 8:01 am
Well, I took my MacMini to the Apple Store and they said it was a bad mother board and that since its out of warranty all they could do was give me %50 off on the replacement cost of $600. I am not about to spend $300 on a perfectly good computer that only fails to deliver 1 of its advertised features.
Let me know if you find a solution.
Thanks Trevin.
Raul Silva
19 Mar 08 at 2:06 pm
[...] was previously having troubles with getting the Mac Mini connecting at Gigabit speeds on my home network. I thought for sure [...]
Driver update fixed gigabit ethernet on the Mac Mini
21 Apr 08 at 7:43 pm
This is so interested! Where can I find more like this?
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