ABWB Wifi & Bluetooth Card keeps preventing sleep :(

southlegend said:

I didn't actually order it in the end - I'm easily distracted! I'll grab one from Amazon I think. Before I do, do you have any clues on the Sleep issues?

After disabling the USB header for the bluetooth module my Hack now sleeps. Though if I leave it overnight then it's awake with several "disk not properly ejected" messages.

Also, it might be a slightly related issue (or not)... but the card connects to my 5ghz network but won't pick up any internet connection. No idea why!

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No don't sadly, hence why I was asking if it did work for you i'd appreciate knowing - then I could rule out the Fenvi card as the issue. I've tried fiddling with DSDT/SSDT, clover config etc but nothing seems to have worked.

Regarding 5GHz internet connectivity - I can confirm that I didn't have any such issue with either Fenvi or ABWB card. I'm using 5GHz on Apple Airport Router if that makes any difference.

Just to clarify - and hopefully help ...

@Quickshooter is correct. If you are having sleep problems with either the Fenvi or ABWB PCIe-based Broadcom cards you really *do* need to check the motherboard USB header and assign it the correct type. There is a way to do this in:

Ammulder's Skylake guide. Section 7.2 Getting it Right

This involves creating a USB SSDT that goes in your EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched folder defining each of the 15 ports you are allowed on a Mac. Yes, most of us get started using the 15-30 Port increase patch because our PC motherboards have so many etc, I did too, but ideally you need to define just 15 with the motherboard header you are using for BT as type "255". This is the setting that stops the BT polling of the O/S from waking your system.

Another thing I've discovered which breaks previously working Sleep on Gigabyte motherboards is BIOS F20 or later. I downgraded to F4 again and this restored service as normal.

I'm currently using the AWBW card and it's flawless once set up correctly. I also tried a Fenvi card and it was much the same, though it didn't seem so reliable picking up the 5ghz connection. Both cards' performance and connectivity improves if you use better/larger/extended antennas than the ones supplied.

@UtterDisbelief I think the issue for @southlegend and I is that we've already done the steps to ensure the correct USB header is set to 255, aka internal. (In my case, my X58 mobo doesn't have USB 3, and the system already recognises that it's an internal USB - giving it the 255 value). Despite that, the ABWB card kept waking the system as soon as it went to sleep. Changing to the Fenvi card resolved the issue for me and system stays asleep.

To clarify (mainly for @southlegend), my remaining sleep issues is the repeating wakeup for 1 minute every 2 hours, which after 7 cycles, causes system to hang. This could be due to the wifi card or something else.

vin047 said:

@UtterDisbelief I think the issue for @southlegend and I is that we've already done the steps to ensure the correct USB header is set to 255, aka internal. (In my case, my X58 mobo doesn't have USB 3, and the system already recognises that it's an internal USB - giving it the 255 value). Despite that, the ABWB card kept waking the system as soon as it went to sleep. Changing to the Fenvi card resolved the issue for me and system stays asleep.

To clarify (mainly for @southlegend), my remaining sleep issues is the repeating wakeup for 1 minute every 2 hours, which after 7 cycles, causes system to hang. This could be due to the wifi card or something else.

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OK, I understand. Sorry if I was preaching to the converted!

Strikes me though that there isn't much about the hardware that might cause a problem other than the bluetooth m/b connector because the ABWB is really just genuine Apple kit.

Having said all that I've just taken a look at the ASRock X58 Deluxe and it's a mighty motherboard - 4x PCIe graphics cards and 6x memory slots! Very impressive I must say. Perhaps there's some quirk in it's Network chip or those PCIe slots. Waking for just 1-minute every two hours seems like it's a "planned" occurrence. No reason wi-fi would do that unless told to by software...

To troubleshoot you could boot in safe mode, or using the UniBeast stick, and see if the problem still occurs ?

UtterDisbelief said:

Waking for just 1-minute every two hours seems like it's a "planned" occurrence.

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This struck a chord, I remember an old post about this a while ago and I made a note of it at the time.

The solution back then was :
Date & Time > Disable/Uncheck: Set date and time automatically
Time Zone > Disable/Uncheck: Set time zone automatically using current location

YMMV

I have also got the BCM943602CS and exactly the same problem you are trying to solve it here but I got (sort of) a workaround for it .As mentioned above, it is indeed a problem with the bluetooth m/b connector on that card. I don't know if everyone noticed that the card stays on (in my case small greed led light) even after you have shut down the system all together. It seemed a bit fishy for me so what I did was to unplug the usb power cable from the card and reboot the system again . The wifi module was still up and running but bluetooth was disabled. Only once you have disabled the bluetooth from power source you rig will finally sleep in peace. My workaround for it was to simply buy a separate usb bluetooth card and just stick it in one of the usb ports at the back. Although it works out of the box, I would still wish to get the bluetooth working on that card. I hope this helps somehow....

i found out that my internal USB is HS10 and i have put everything from 3 to 255 at HS10, but my Mac is still always restarting immediately after sending him to sleep :/
Any idea?

Hi, I have the same problem - same card.

Sleep worked fine before and still does if I disconnect the usb from the internal card.

I have tried to make port HP17 internal using a SSDT but with no luck

How do I see if the port is now internal with IOReg?

Thanks in advance.

Quickshooter said:

Solution - map the port you are using as internal, i.e. in USBInjectAll.kext/config.plist find the port your card is connected to and replace the key from 3 to 255.

For example:
...
<key>HS09</key>
<dict>
<key>UsbConnector</key>
<integer>255</integer>
<key>port</key>
...

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baja-king said:

Hi, I have the same problem - same card.

Sleep worked fine before and still does if I disconnect the usb from the internal card.

I have tried to make port HP17 internal using a SSDT but with no luck

How do I see if the port is now internal with IOReg?

Thanks in advance.

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I've uploaded two screenshots - of your dsl file that I opened with Maciasl and a screenshot of my ioreg with my HS09 port seen as 0xff
USBConnector 255 would look like 0xff in ioreg and would label this port as 'internal'

ThankS @Quickshooter

So this would be correct...