The X1 (4th gen) has a thunderbolt port which I believe they call “Mini DisplayPort™”. I was able to plug in a mac thunderbolt to monitor display adapter and it worked instantly. But when I plugged a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter, it didn’t work. I tried running:
sudo dhclient eth0
But that didn’t work. (That did work for a USB ethernet though)
What do i need to do to get it to work with openSUSE?
> The X1 (4th gen) has a thunderbolt port which I believe they call “Mini
> DisplayPort™”. I was able to plug in a mac thunderbolt to monitor
> display adapter and it worked instantly. But when I plugged a
> thunderbolt to ethernet adapter, it didn’t work. I tried running:
>
> sudo dhclient eth0
>
> But that didn’t work. (That did work for a USB ethernet though)
>
> What do i need to do to get it to work with openSUSE?
>
> http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-carbon/
>
> openSUSE LEAP KDE Kernel 4.7
Note that a mini displayport and a Thunderbolt port, while using the same
connector, are different technologies. If the Lenovo doesn’t have a
Thunderbolt adapter specifically, then you can only use the DisplayPort
functionality to connect a display.
The specs say it’s a mini displayport and not a Thunderbolt port, so
chances are, it doesn’t have the support for connecting Ethernet through
the port.