BCM94350ZAE/DW1820A only 802.11n wifi and no bluetooth devices

[Hugotai]

Are you experiencing some kind of slowdown of your build in general using this patch?

yes, (almost all time), very slow, i have to use

sudo halt

to force a shutdown, and sometime the machine will be very laggy after may a few hour of use, laggy to a point is unusable.

 

[dloprios97]

yes, (almost all time), very slow, i have to use

sudo halt

to force a shutdown, and sometime the machine will be very laggy after may a few hour of use, laggy to a point is unusable.

I don't know what happens with this card, and why it doesnt load the right driver (AirPortBrcmNIC.kext).

 

[dloprios97]

I managed to get the system to load the correct driver for the card but I'm not exactly sure how I successfully accomplished it at the time as I wasn't aware of it because I had just reset the system and was messing with a bunch of other settings. I know part of the process was enabling add dtpg and fix airport and then setting the airport fake I'd to 0x43A314E4 in clover configurator and that's the only bit I'm sure about so hotpatchi g can fix the issues with the card it was using airportbrcmnic.kext. I also had frequency voltage patch enabled too.

So, now you got your WIFi working normally or just the AirPortBrcmNIC.kext is loaded?

 

[dloprios97]

Did you got it working using your method (Yosemite kexts)? Or with Mojave kexts?

 

[Hugotai]

, Did you got it working using your method (Yosemite kexts)? Or with Mojave kexts?

from the version number he use, i guess is yosemite

 

[denisuu]

Would you guys recommend buying this card or a DW1560 or DW1830?

 

[YoshiMac]

Would you guys recommend buying this card or a DW1560 or DW1830?

DW1560 , I really tried long time to get things stable with dw1830 but always some strange problems -mostly B/T related.

 

[Hugotai]

DW1560, don’t waste time on 1820a

 

[asleb]

DW1560, don’t waste time on 1820a

Yes as the one who started this thread I have my conclusions now. I got the 1820a to work just fine but eventually it "broke" again on some update. Such a pain to make it work. I have done 4 hackintosh builds since then. I traded the 1820a for a BCM94360CS2 (MacBook Air) and a NGFF adapter. This has worked out of the box and this has been my standard solution until now. Just works!

The problem is the height the adapter builds. For a Fractal Design Core 500 case, which I really like (I just love mini-ITX builds!) I had to replace the included 14" rear fan with a Noctua NF-F12 since the NGFF adapter bumped into the fan. And I have used water coolers that do not take up space around that area.

Now I made my dream itx build with the Loque Ghost S1 case and air cooler Scythe Big Shuriken 2 Rev. B . This covers most of the area of the back side so I have ordered a DW1560 (exact same size as the included Intel card) that I have read should be a breeze to get working. You can buy the BCM94360CS2 and adapter for $16 while the DW1560 I paid $36. So if you have space - go for the BCM94360CS2 with adapter.

So I am sorry if I am killing my thread (gave up) but at least I tried and we all love getting things to work right?

 

[denisuu]

Thanks for the detailed post! Clean build by the way!

I was looking at the BCM94360CS2 with adapter too but I don't think it will fit in my ASUS N580VD. They're super cheap on Aliexpress!

Space is limited, so I guess the safest option would be DW1560?