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Working BCM94360NG native support for catalina VS BCM94352 DW1560

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for which card? i am using BCM94360CS2 and it requires no kexts.
ooh right, that's a different model. how did you make it fit?
 
ooh right, that's a different model. how did you make it fit?
i followed this guide : https://github.com/notthebee/t440p-airport

however he did it with a different card, basically you have to remove keyboard and palmrest to remove backplate and then it sits down nicely (i was suprised), you dont need to unplug cmos you can just pull it up and place it on ram to avoid annoying bios reset, i think i will try with BCM94360CS next, the 3x3 card, as this one is 2x2
 
all right I see, thank you :D a little bit too much for me at the moment, but it's interesting.
 
Btw my problems with airdrop were due to some firewall settings, not the card.
 
How did you get that to work?

I got an original DW1560 (from dell).

If I connect to my personal wifi. It’s showing 300 mbps. NSS 2

Is this a issue of my router or the card?
On my routers website it says my router can do 300+1300 mbit/s.
 
How did you get that to work?

I got an original DW1560 (from dell).

If I connect to my personal wifi. It’s showing 300 mbps. NSS 2

Is this a issue of my router or the card?
On my routers website it says my router can do 300+1300 mbit/s.

I just installed the kexts. Didn't have to do anything special. Make sure you are connected to 5Ghz Wi-Fi for best performance.
 
How did you get that to work?

I got an original DW1560 (from dell).

If I connect to my personal wifi. It’s showing 300 mbps. NSS 2

Is this a issue of my router or the card?
On my routers website it says my router can do 300+1300 mbit/s.
300mbps NSS:2 would be a 40MHz 802.11 N Channel at max speed MCS7 or a 40MHz 802.11AC channel at MSC7 (MSC9 is possible on AC whereas MCS7 is max on N)

this could be occuring on 2.4GHz or 5GHz, if your on 2.4GHz i would drop the channel width to 20MHz which will drop your max rate to 150mbps but realistically your connection should be more stable (2.4GHz never worked good at 40MHz, even when you have no neighboors.

if your on 5GHz you need to make sure your on AC mode in 5GHz settings and have channel width at 80MHz
 
300mbps NSS:2 would be a 40MHz 802.11 N Channel at max speed MCS7 or a 40MHz 802.11AC channel at MSC7 (MSC9 is possible on AC whereas MCS7 is max on N)

this could be occuring on 2.4GHz or 5GHz, if your on 2.4GHz i would drop the channel width to 20MHz which will drop your max rate to 150mbps but realistically your connection should be more stable (2.4GHz never worked good at 40MHz, even when you have no neighboors.

if your on 5GHz you need to make sure your on AC mode in 5GHz settings and have channel width at 80MHz
I was on AC with 5GHz.

It kinda seems like some faulty opencore config (on my side).
After I took the one from someone else the tx rate is now up to 800+.
 
posting here to report success for BCM943602CS with 3x3 in a T440P using 1 of the WWAN antennas (2x2 WWAN is not an option anymore)

card works good, airdrop handoff all good as its an authentic apple card, coming from a BCM94360CS2 i have lost bluetooth connectivity at BIOS, and its doing my head in trying to understand how this could happen.

the best thing i can think of is that because the T440P was 2x2 it uses either antenna 1 or 2 to make the bluetooth connection, possible that with 3x3 card the bluetooth is functioning on the 3rd antenna and therefor the T440P Bios isnt seeing it. im thinking maybe its because its bluetooth 4.2 on this device.


edit: appears that i may be correct about bluetooth version being the issue, the card is bluetooth 4.1 or 4.2 which introduced LE secure connection, HCI works on LE and it appears there is a HCI revision but no spec, it should say HCI revision 4.2 i believe, not just HCI spec see bottom image and notice BCM943602CS is listed a 4.1 vs all the others which are 4.2

basically it seems like atleast on a T440P 4.1/4.2 breaks HID proxy / HCI

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Hi
I have

BCM94360NG​


All is ok airdrop handoff with iPhone and with apple watch

except unlock with Apple Watch, each time no communication with apple watch

do you have idea

open core and no kext for Broadcom

in opencore boot arg

keepsyms=1 darkwake=2 igfxonln=1 igfxagdc=0 brcmfx-country=FR brcmfx-driver=1
 
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