Re: Dell thunderbolt docking station not working

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On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 03:42:10PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:31:34 +0300
> Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > The Dell thunderbolt docking brick (TB16) does not appear to be fully supported in Linux.
> > > When I connect my Dell XPS 13 (running Ubuntu) to the dock, the multiple displays work
> > > correctly but the USB keyboard, mouse and wired Ethernet do not.
> > > (Of course this all works with the other Windows laptop so it is not a hardware BIOS issue).  
> > 
> > TB16 should be working fine, that's one of the devices I use for my
> > testing. Looking at your dmesg, it seems to be fine.
> > 
> > Have you authorized the devices you connected?
> > 
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/thunderbolt.html
> 
> Thanks, once I authorized 0-301 it worked.

Cool!

There is also a userspace "tbtadm" tool that makes authorizing lot more
easier here:

https://github.com/01org/thunderbolt-software-user-space
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