Tired of having unsupported WiFi cards? Scared of bricking your laptop with a bad whitelist BIOS flash? Getting tired of that ugly USB WiFi adapter hanging out? Well, what do you know, you can say good bye to those things from now on. =D
Special thanks to DIY Setup 1.x for the antiwhitelisting and Philip_Petev for pushing me to do this or else I’d be too lazy!
1. Make yourself a bootable DIY Setup 1.x (It's $25! You can use this with eGPU also!)
2. Boot with your ORIGINAL WLAN card attached.
3. Enter Setup 1.x
a. Select DIY eGPU Setup 1.10b5: menu-based setup
b. Go to “PCIe Ports” > under “Anti-Whitelist” > !Save Ports > Select your WLAN port (i.e. mine was p4)
4. Turn off computer and remove wlan card.
5. Attach Your NEW “OSX Supporting WLAN”
6. Enter Setup 1.x
a. Select DIY eGPU Setup 1.10b5: menu-based setup
b. Go to “PCIe Ports” > Enable Ports → Select the port number from above (i.e. p4)
c. Select “Restore port4” under Anti-whitelist
i. It should say “SUCCESS!! Dev:ven is registered on port4”
7. Select Chainload mbr under Apply Config and off you go with your new working OSX compatible WiFi card!
See my screen shot! It’s awesome. I’m using an Atheros 9285 and I’m getting Airport extreme support!
Developers: I still need help with two things if possible…
1. Integrate DIY Setup 1.x into the bootloader so I can automatically boot up to it without using the USB.
2. Everytime I boot into OSX/Windows I have to hard switch the wifi to on and off in order for it to start seeing the networks. Any way around this?!
If you decide to test this, please let us know if it works or not. Laptop model,etc.
Update: "Everytime I boot into OSX/Windows I have to hard switch the wifi to on and off in order for it to start seeing the networks. Any way around this?!" - SOLVED! Thanks to Nando4 for suggesting to short/tape pin 20 of the wifi card. Now, the wifi card turns on right when OSX loads, no more using the hard switch!
