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- Lenovo Ideapad Flex 15 (Clover)
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Hello All,
I am working on a hackintosh build for my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 15 and have so far gotten the system relatively stable with some help from the tonymac community. I am trying now to sort out the WiFi and bluetooth as I am unable to find a working USB solution and my Intel card is unsupported. After reading the "Airport - PCIe Half Mini" sticky I am considering buying the following card: "Broadcom BCM94352" for its 2.4/5ghz and bluetooth capability but as far as I can tell it appears it won't be supported by my laptop as HP/Lenovo has an enforced whitelist. In anticipation of this, I experimented with modifying the BIOS but found that it was RSA signed and as such I could not continue.
I came across another method which was to rebrand the card itself but am wondering how to do this and if anyone has had any success with similar implementations? Would a rebrand be sufficient for the card to bypass the whitelist and work with OSX? And if rebranded what would I need to change the device/vendor IDs to? It would have to be something not conflicting with the BIOS but not on OSX's whitelist either so I'm assuming a DSDT edit to correct this?
All guesses at this point I've been reading for the better part of three hours now trying to synthesize all of this, all of your help is welcome and appreciated!
I am working on a hackintosh build for my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 15 and have so far gotten the system relatively stable with some help from the tonymac community. I am trying now to sort out the WiFi and bluetooth as I am unable to find a working USB solution and my Intel card is unsupported. After reading the "Airport - PCIe Half Mini" sticky I am considering buying the following card: "Broadcom BCM94352" for its 2.4/5ghz and bluetooth capability but as far as I can tell it appears it won't be supported by my laptop as HP/Lenovo has an enforced whitelist. In anticipation of this, I experimented with modifying the BIOS but found that it was RSA signed and as such I could not continue.
I came across another method which was to rebrand the card itself but am wondering how to do this and if anyone has had any success with similar implementations? Would a rebrand be sufficient for the card to bypass the whitelist and work with OSX? And if rebranded what would I need to change the device/vendor IDs to? It would have to be something not conflicting with the BIOS but not on OSX's whitelist either so I'm assuming a DSDT edit to correct this?
All guesses at this point I've been reading for the better part of three hours now trying to synthesize all of this, all of your help is welcome and appreciated!