Thunderbolt to USB3 using Belkin Express Dock

I am using the Belkin express Dock Thunderbolt to USB3 . My 2011 laptop 2.5GHz-i7 with 10.7.5  does not mount the Seagate 2TB USB3 drive using the Belkin Express Dock.  If I plug the USB3 cable directly into the Laptop it will mount the Seagate drive as USB 2…  Yuk
Am I missing a driver?   Disk Utility will not see the Seagate drive when plugged thru the Thunderbolt into the Belkin Express Dock and then out the USB3.
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This helped me out tremendously.  After I selected "Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller" I went to Advanced and renewed the DHCP lease.  Then my light was green
Thanks Leonard Barshack!
Yosemite 10.10 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

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    If you find this post helpful, please add to the thread.
    My issue:
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    After connecting the Thunderbolt Express Dock to my laptop, all ports were working except I was unable to get my ethernet working.  I could use wireless connectivity, but being old school, I prefer a physical connections.  The solution is simple once you know it.
    I disconnected everything from my laptop, went into System Preferences / Network.  Depending on your location (top pull down), there are various interface options that appear on the left side.  Typically an active interface is indicated by a green dot to the left of the interface.  A red dot indicates an interface that is inactive.  I started with a new location with no interfaces.  Clicking the "+" at the bottom left of the window, you get a list of available interfaces.  For a Retina MacBook Pro, you get the following selection:
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    I then removed the Apple adaptor and connected the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock to my laptop, hit the "+" and got the following list:
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    This helped me out tremendously.  After I selected "Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller" I went to Advanced and renewed the DHCP lease.  Then my light was green
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  • Belkin Express Dock

    I had read in several places on the net where the Belkin Express Dock was a wonderful device providing two Thunerbolt ports, a Firewire 800 port and some USB3 ports.  Various pictures I found on the internet showed one Thunderbolt port on the front and other pics showed two in the back along with the other ports.  I bought the thing and I just opened it up.  There are two Thunderbolt ports on the back alright but there is no input port on the front.  I went to the Belkin website and looked for some info on how to set it up thinking maybe there's a hidden port somewhere.  Nope.  They show how to connect the dock to the computer using one of the two Thunderbolt ports.  This leaves me right where I started, with one available Thunderbolt port, only now the available port is on the dock rather than the computer.  That can't be right.  Where are my two Thunderbolt ports?  I gotta be missing something here.  Yes?

    Post in Belkin's forums - http://www.belkin.com/us/support-article?articleNum=10057 or download the dock's user manual if one did not come with the one you purchased - http://www.belkin.com/us/contact-support/update 

  • Why doesn't the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock relay sound from it's audio out port?

    Posted to Belkin Support community to no avail
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    Why can't my Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock operate my desktop speakers?
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    07-14-2014 01:48 PM
    Bought a Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock at the Apple Store to use with my new MacBook Pro.
    When I connected it to my
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    -Various USB connected hubs and devices,
    -Various Firewire hubs and devices
    -My ethernet network from my Cable Modem
    Then made the last connection from the Dock to the Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Pro...
    All was fine.
    But when I made that one last connection - to my desktop speakers via the audio-out port on the dock (earphones icon) nothing happened.  The dock did not pick up the audio from the laptop playng an iTunes song or send it to the desktop speakers.  When I unplugged the audio cable from the Dock and plugged it in to the MacBook Pro directly, the desktop speakers kicked right in again.
    Does Thunderbolt pick up audio-out from a MacBook Pro and carry it to the Dock for connection to my desktop speakers?
    Of for some reason, can that signal not be carried by Thunderbolt?
    Will I have to get used to the onerous task of unplugging 2 cables from my MacBook Pro when I want to more it to another location in stead of just 1 cable?
    But stay with me.  Here's the thing.
    When this happened I called Belkin Customer Support to ask if they could help me.  After taking me through their steps, they agreed that the unit must be defective and agreed to ship me a replacement Thunderbolt Express Dock.
    The replacement arrived over the weekend and when I shut down my system and then plugged everything from Dock I purchased into the replacement Thunderbird Express Dock - - - - - the same thing happened!
    No signal to the speakers from the dock.  Perfect signal when the plug moved from the Dock to the computer itself.
    Hence my question:
    Does Thunderbolt pick up audio-out from a MacBook Pro and carry it to the Dock for connection to my desktop speakers?
    Can it accomplish that function?
    Am I really that unlucky to have received 2 defective new Belkin Thunderbolt Express Docks in a row?
    Or is it simply a matter of the Dock not handling audio throughput in the manner I am expecting.
    Then again, if this is the case, why did the Belkin techies not know this when I called them in the first place.
    Yes, I'm going on and on here.  But I really don't have time for this.
    What's going on here?

    OK.  No reason to be playing games here.  Just surprised that this issue hasn't been brought up here on the community boards as well.  Here's the simple solution
    Steve
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    Re: Why can't my Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock operate my desktop speakers?
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    07-17-2014 07:09 PM
    After reaching a Level III technician in Belkin customer support today and having spent approximately 4-5 person hours on this issue, we figured out that the Sound/Output preferences in the Apple System Preferences should not be set to "Internal Speakers"  but rather set to "USB PnP Sound Device". 
    Worked like a charm.  Simple, elegant solution to a real problem, one likely to be encountered by 90% of the people who buy a Belkin Thunderbid Express Dock off the shelves of any Apple Store to use with a current generation Apple laptop or desktop computer.
    But the Level III Belkin technician admmtted that this critical little piece of simple, straightforward information should have been readily available to their Level 1 techies who began helping me 5 person hours ago.  Would even have saved Balkin loads of customer service support time.
    And so the saga ends
    Belkin owes me for helping them learn this precious lesson.
    Steve

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