pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

macOS 12.6.2 at the moment. But I will try macOS 13.1 in the next days. The last days I spent my time with cleaning up the EFI of the PMG4 build and upgrading OpenCore from 0.8.1 to 0.8.7 to be prepared for Ventura.

I‘ve learned on my PMG5 build, that an active BlueToolFixup.kext can prevent macOS 13 from successful installation of the small (1,18GB) 13.1 update. Then only the big one (12,2GB) can be successfully installed.

So if Ventura is really dropping the support of the BCM943602CS, I will replace it.

@pastrychef, @kennypowers after installing macOS Ventura on a fresh SSD I can say: It work's!

I can send files to my iPhone 12 mini running iOS 16.2 from my Hackintosh running macOS 13.1 using a BCM934602CS without any Kext! The card is now running in the M.2 WiFi slot. But, also with my formerly PCIe adapter, I had no problems with this card.
So for me also the BCM934602CS works OOTB, like the BCM93460CD in my other Hack!

For those interested, I found the Windows 11 drivers for the BCM94360CS2 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card.
Tested and working!

snoopy69 said:

For those interested, I found the Windows 11 drivers for the BCM94360CS2 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card.
Tested and working!

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People use this too, to get the latest per-model. (Thought process being to simply select the right model with your particular wifi card..)

dclive said:

People use this too, to get the latest per-model. (Thought process being to simply select the right model with your particular wifi card..)

GitHub - timsutton/brigadier: Fetch and install Boot Camp ESDs with ease.

Fetch and install Boot Camp ESDs with ease. Contribute to timsutton/brigadier development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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I tried a while ago with brigadier, but it never worked for me. This is quick "device manager" and "update driver".

snoopy69 said:

I tried a while ago with brigadier, but it never worked for me. This is quick "device manager" and "update driver".

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Totally agree, but there could be interest in a living, updated and maintained version of the software.

To install (Windows), simply install 7zip, and then download the EXE from the RELEASES page. Then, run it, with the commandline argument of -m {modelnameyouwant}. A common one might be 2018 Mac mini, so that would run as "brigadier.exe" -m Macmini8,1" (I found the model number in x,x format with a quick google).

That generates a BootCamp SomethingSomething folder in current directory, and that has Apple-sourced, Apple-guaranteed files for all associated hardware product.

Some might find this of interest, particularly if you have some other type of Apple or near-Apple wifi card.

dclive said:

Totally agree, but there could be interest in a living, updated and maintained version of the software.

To install (Windows), simply install 7zip, and then download the EXE from the RELEASES page. Then, run it, with the commandline argument of -m {modelnameyouwant}. A common one might be 2018 Mac mini, so that would run as "brigadier.exe" -m Macmini8,1" (I found the model number in x,x format with a quick google).

That generates a BootCamp SomethingSomething folder in current directory, and that has Apple-sourced, Apple-guaranteed files for all associated hardware product.

Some might find this of interest, particularly if you have some other type of Apple or near-Apple wifi card.

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I ran brigadier.exe as you suggested, but the BCM94360CS2 card drivers stop at Win10 and are not supported for Win11. I confirm that the drivers I've posted are genuine Apple, but intended for another card with similar-same specs and they load perfectly.
I add that I probably don't have the skills to make the best use of Brigadier, but it seemed to me the right thing to share a good result (patience and frustration ) on the latest operating system from Microsoft.
I am attaching some images, even if my Win11 is in Italian I think they can be understood.

Has the thought process on cpufriendfriend (and cpufriend) changed at all? I've seen mention of some who don't mess with it, but in looking at "Intel Power Gadget" I see constant fairly high CPU usage with an Asus Z370-I (nearly the same as the Z370 MATX Wifi in the thread, just with different USB mappings & a bit smaller) - my core avg is always around 3 ghz, even though core min is 700 mhz (i7-8700), with SMBIOS iMac Pro, in the IPG readout.

I'd love to be able to reduce fan noise a bit, and reduce power used a bit, which assumedly cpufriend & cpufriendfriend could help with. It is my understanding that because I have an i7-8700, if I used the imac19,1 SMBIOS the CPU setup would be perfect, but because I'm using the iMacPro SMBIOS, it doesn't know how best to configure the CPU, hence the entire reason for the kexts.

On another (different) machine, a Gigabyte H310M A 2.0, also with iMac Pro SMBIOS, but with i5-9400F, testing with a tdp-down freq of 800 and 1300 in cpufriendfriend makes no difference; the average CPU speed stays at 3.0 ghz or so, even though CPU utilization is near 0. And the fan is noisy throughout.

A quick test with OneKeyCPUFriend says my board ID (again, iMac Pro) isn't supported. https://github.com/stevezhengshiqi/one-key-cpufriend

Has anyone played around with this a bit?

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Has anyone played around with this a bit?

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I have not... I'd love to hear how it works out if/when you try.