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I am having a problem that (seemingly) no on else is.
First off I am running 10.7.5 on a Mac Pro 1,1 and using the GBU521 BT dongle. I edited my bt kext per this post and when I plug in the dongle I don't get bluetooth in the System Preferences. It does show up in the System Info as a unknown USB device.
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I double checked and the Product ID and the Vendor ID are correct in the kext to the system info page. Yet when I try to manually open the BT preferences pan from the /PreferncesPane folder It says "You can’t open the “Bluetooth” preferences pane because it is not available to you at this time."

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Not sure if you're still having the issue, Steinlager, but I took the attachment from the first post in this thread and dropped it in place in /System/Library/Extension/IOBlueToothFamilywhatever and added an entry to Info.plist that was a copy of the Microsoft 2.0 text, with the idProduct and idVendor keys changed to 8680 and 2652 respectively. That was the trick, and now I have working Bluetooth with the ioGear adapter.
 
If anyone is still on this thread, I had a question

I'm running 10.10.5 with the GMYLE Bluetooth Adapter Dongle ([h=1]Broadcom BCM20702) and I cannot get it to recognize any bluetooth devices. I know it's supposed to be natively supported but it does not work. Does anyone have any suggestions?[/h]
prdouct id: 0x21e8
vendor id: 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp)
 
same issue here.

osad did you find a fix?

Strangely under 10.11.1 i find the adaptor working shortly, but than it looses connection.even had sound connection working once for a shore time.
Unfortunalty that is the only reasonable priced on in germany from the list.
maybe the adaptor is broken? or is it an OS X problem?

thanks
 
Hi All,

I just got this and it worked perfectly out of the box. It was simple just plugged it in. Maybe I got lucky? Have x79 UD5 LGA 2011 6 core i7 and Yosemite 10.10.3 installed currently. Plugged it in and enabled bluetooth and it just worked = crazy!

Works perfect with my magic mouse. Feels better than the real mac pro I use at work - geek bench just as fast - but does not cost 6k :)


Love this website!!

-G
 
CustoMac Pro LGA 2011
GA-X79-UD5 |  i7 3930K |  GeForce GTX 970
UPDATE = found the perfect location for the adapter // on the right side of the wired apple keyboard USB port :)

Before I had it installed on the front of my rack mount 4U server case holding the hackintosh goodies (5 X Hard Drive hot swap bay...etc). Could close the rack mount case but it did hit the adapter slightly on the front end. Now its even closer to the mouse, and I can close the case like normal. Anyway so excited over a $10 part!

Thanks all - hope this helps someone - it seems 10.X supports this part natively from what I can tell?? Packaging does not say OS X supported but it does work for me out of the box (no kext or drivers needed to be installed). Just had to turn on bluetooth in system preferences. WOW!! LOVE IT!! Now it really feels like the mac pro at work but even faster - and a hell of allot cheaper :)


May sound corny but the term "Happiness is Hackintosh" comes to mind. Tony and crew should make t-shirts and sell them. :)


-G
 
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CustoMac Pro LGA 2011
GA-X79-UD5 |  i7 3930K |  GeForce GTX 970
Mine is arriving tomorrow. I'll post up how it goes on an Asus P5W legacy board and El Capitan.
 
Alright, old ASUS P5W DH with El Capitan 10.11.3 and this Bluetooth gadget worked OOB.

Wonderful. Now I can drive my wife to the final end on insanity by web-surfing in bed! :lolno:
 
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