MacBook Pro with Dell TB16 Thunderbolt dock

I am waiting for 5 months now for devices compatible with Apple USB-C or TB3.1. I do not consider it soon!

It would have been much easier for Apple to allow existing hardware. But it might not be that profitable.

For what it's worth, The Dell WD-15 Dock works quite nicely as does the DA200 (great for travel). Perhaps you could work out an exchange with Dell? the WD-15 is USB-C / displayport, not thunderbolt though and only supports one display out on the Mac which might be a deal breaker.

I have just received a new TB-16 dock for testing and the MacBook reports it as "unsupported". Hopefully it's only a driver issue as I'd like to test it out.

GitHub - KhaosT/tb3-enabler: Enable Thunderbolt 3 for unsupported peripherals on macOS

Run at your own risk. And be aware:

I would recommend you keep an extra backup of IOThunderboltFamily.kext even though the script is supposed to back it up. You also need to disable SIP in order to run the patch, which leaves your OS more vulnerable and you should remove the patch each time you update your OS (from 10.12.x to 10.12.x+1) and reenable it after the OS is updated. Also wait for the tb3-enabler to get new commits for the latest OSes.

Good luck 🙂

Did anyone tried the patch in a MBP 17 with 10.12.16? It didn't worked with me.

I plugged the device and confirmed it show in system report as unsupported, but after the sis/patchreboot the TB16 did not appeared in the Thunderbolt list.

Another interesting thing is that even after I restored the original file, it don't appear anymore at the list.

Anyone had better luck with this configuration?

There is a fork that I can confirm that supports 10.12.6 - tested on a late 2016 13" MBP:

Update tb3-enabler.py · pwntbywombat/tb3-enabler@f11996a · GitHub

If you've successfully patched the extensions the command:

./tb3-enabler.py status

should give you the following output:

target:patched, 10.12.6 (16G29)

backup:original, 10.12.6 (16G29)

I just tried a fresh OS installation but the TB16 didn't appear anymore. I managed to change to a new one from DELL but the same thing happened.

Status was:

target:patched, 10.12.6 (16G29) backup:original, 10.12.6 (16G29)

It appeared in the list but didn't appeared anymore after the patch, even if I use the restore option. Maybe a permissions issue?

Can someone with 10.12.6 check if the permissions for /System/Library/Extensions/IOThunderboltFamily.kext/Contents/MacOS/

are correct?

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1177472 Aug 23 13:40 IOThunderboltFamily

The permissions are correct. Just to be clear: You've rebooted the Mac after the patch, right? The extension needs to load on boot up. And: I've also experienced that unplugging the power of the Dell TB16 where it is unresponsive gets it back online.

I have been using tb16 for about a month and it has been working fine. Only supports one display at a time (hdmi). Did require applying the patch to allow unsupported devices in OSX.

Hi,

You're not talking to Apple here; we're just other users like yourself. To give Apple feedback so they will hear it, go here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

Other third Parties would release similar device which compatible Apple USB-C soon.

kaz-k

Also, if you can afford to wait a little longer: https://eshop.macsales.com/preorder/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock/

Hello, What patch did you have to apply? And where would I find it? Thanks. :-)

What does shipping soon mean?

Sorry, I don't know.