Bluetooth Not Working On Broadcom Card - El Capitan

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Didn't work for me.

I think the Bluetooth part connects via USB, even if the card is plugged into a PCI slot. So it's possibly related to the USB problems people have been seeing on El Cap.

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CONFIRMED: a number of USB ports weren't working, including the one the BT receiver was plugged into... Getting them all to work seems quite tricky, requiring DSDT or SSDT edits due to the fact that there's a port limitation built into the USB drivers. More info here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/307003-clover-os-x-el-capitan-usb/ and here: https://github.com/theracermaster/Gigabyte-GA-Z77X-DSDT-Patch

 

[ammulder]

My BCM94352Z, same here

I have this same card and it's working fine with kexts (see guide here). One of the kexts needed to be updated for El Capitan.

If you have the other (Apple) card and you're having problems, I would go after the getting Bluetooth working angle.

 

[ipvfour]

I have this same card and it's working fine with kexts (see guide here). One of the kexts needed to be updated for El Capitan.

If you have the other (Apple) card and you're having problems, I would go after the getting Bluetooth working angle.

I had updated BcrmPatchRAM2.kext and BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext to latest, but no use. I can not see BT hardware in system information.

 

[ammulder]

ipvfour, please add your specific motherboard model to the system information that shows on the left, and/or your signature. It's hard to give specific advice without knowing that.

 

[ipvfour]

ipvfour, please add your specific motherboard model to the system information that shows on the left, and/or your signature. It's hard to give specific advice without knowing that.

updated, thx

 

[OSXMan]

Same here.

Other note, during the install sometime bluetooth magic mouse works and other times it didn't. I had to switch USB ports for keyboard and mouse sporadically just to get El Capitan install using Clover EFI. My native card (BCM94331CD) was working in Yosemite 10.10.5, now in El Capitan, most of everything works except for bluetooth, only WIFI with my native card.

Is there a kext for my apple card that works?

 

[OSXMan]

I don't have dsdt or ssdt in my built, so last ditch effort was to switch to no-ports restriction SMBIOS iMac 14,x, but no dice.
I got this native pci-e x1 slot for specifically bluetooth because I have magic mouse and bluetooth keyboards. I am already connected via ethernet, so no need for WIFI.

Perhaps, IOReg and inject proper device ID into clover config.plist is the only hope, but I don't know where to start.

 

[ammulder]

For people with Bluetooth failures:

Look in About This Mac / System Report / USB and see if there's an entry in there anywhere for your Bluetooth device. If not, then you need to do the USB troubleshooting to enable the USB port that the Bluetooth device is using. If it is listed, check the device ID and vendor ID and work on getting the right drivers installed.

 

[OSXMan]

For people with Bluetooth failures:

Look in About This Mac / System Report / USB and see if there's an entry in there anywhere for your Bluetooth device. If not, then you need to do the USB troubleshooting to enable the USB port that the Bluetooth device is using. If it is listed, check the device ID and vendor ID and work on getting the right drivers installed.

Thanks ammulder for chiming in...

Okay, so under System Report>Hardware>USB I have the following, how and where do I enter then into clover config.plist?

Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBEHCIPCI
PCI Device ID: 0x3b3c
PCI Revision ID: 0x0006
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086

 

[ammulder]

OSXMan, do you have any related kexts that you have previously installed? To check, run this and post the output (in particular any kexts that it says have an invalid signature).

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/ && sudo kextcache -Boot -U /