IOGear Bluetooth 4.0 USB Micro Adapter must unplug / plug back in at boot

[agrajag]

Hmm those kexts activated my on-board bluetooth, but I was unable to connect to my devices that way.

Interestingly enough, I found that if I turn off the power supply's switch in the back after shutting down, I would be able to boot up with having all my bluetooth devices recognized.

Also, it makes sense that the situation could be more problematic with builds which feature integrated bluetooth / wifi - as I did not experience any connectivity issues when experimenting with another build w/ next-gen motherboard (z97 UD7 TH), which has no on-board bluetooth / wifi.

My experience was with only the iogear USB adapter. A different bluetooth adapter, even if it's a Broadcom one, might need a different approach. The tools at Rehabman's site can work for a wide range of adapters, but could easily be a different setup.

 

[Nyak]

So I finally found the solution. Seems like the wifi+bluetooth card integrated into the motherboard was causing problems, so I removed the card from the Hackintosh and the dongle started working properly.

How do you do this? I think I may have a similar problem.

 

[Alika]

Hi, I've tried the same way as you did. Just copy both files to L/E but still it won't work for me. I'm using mojave 10.14.1. My bluetooth firmware version '4096' in which RehabMan said it will not work properly. Try to figure out his explanation but seems I was little too noob to follow the instruction. May you can share some more simple way to fix this? thank you in advance

I tried those two kexts and just couldn't figure it out. I tried to follow the guide all the way through, but it didn't get me anywhere. If you don't need the keyboard to be recognized at boot and your only problem is that you have to unplug/replug on every startup, you can turn off your "USB always on" function for your motherboard. Since I have a Gigabyte motherboard, mine was under "Power" and I had to enable "ErP" in the BIOS. Now my USB dongle turns off when I shutdown my computer, and then when I boot up my computer again, it works in the OS. I make my setup skip the bootloader since I will access the same drive whenever I use my computer, so I don't need my keyboard to be recognized at boot. I've been doing this for a few days now and haven't had any issues.

 

[Alika]

Sorry, just updating my previous post. I know this thread's pretty much dead, but just in case someone else stumbles upon this problem in the future, I wanted to update. I was able to re-enable my ErP (I use the USB at night to charge my camera when the PC is off), and still get it working. I followed the Installing 3rd Party Kexts guide and found that using Kext Utility to reset the cache/permissions got the BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext and the BrcmPatchRAM2.kext to work. Now I no longer have to worry about Bluetooth for my system

 

[DavidTan]

I have IOGear GBU521 , Simple solution in Mojave 10.14.5 :1. Disable Intel Bluetooth(If you have) ;2.Remove BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext and BrcmPatchRAM2.kext from S/L/E and EFI/Clover/kexts/Other ;3.Use Kext Utility to reset the cache/permissions ; -- Perfect working for me .

 

[EdwardG]

I have IOGear GBU521 , Simple solution in Mojave 10.14.5 :1. Disable Intel Bluetooth(If you have) ;2.Remove BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext and BrcmPatchRAM2.kext from S/L/E and EFI/Clover/kexts/Other ;3.Use Kext Utility to reset the cache/permissions ; -- Perfect working for me .

how did you disable intel bluetooth? and where is S/L/E?
thank you in advance