Keyboard Doesn't Work with Thunderbolt USB Port

Hello:

I have a brand-new MBP i7, 15" display with four Thunderbolt ports, and LOTS of things to (hopefully) connect.

Using a Lention USB to Thunderbolt port, I cannot get the keyboard to work, but I can get it to work using a simple USB to Thunderbolt adapter. This is tying up one of the ports, so, I'm hoping to connect all of the following:

TWO displays, via HDMI

ONE keyboard

ONE mouse

ONE Ethernet cable

ONE USB external drive

ONE USB audio interface

Right now I have the power adapter cabled up, also, so we have to add that to the list if possible.

Any suggestions? Anyone out there use the same machine for creative work like audio or video editing? Lots of external devices?

Thanks so much.

Posted on Dec 8, 2018 3:22 PM

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Tesserax

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Posted on Dec 8, 2018 3:48 PM

Ok, so you already know that your new MBP comes with four Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C type) port, which by themselves, will not be enough to support all of the devices that you would like to connect.

One option is to get an external Thunderbolt 3 dock. Something like this from Other World Computing. Based on what you provided in your post, this may just do the trick.

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