BCM_4350C2 Bluetooth USB dongle on Ventura possible?

[pcace]

Hi there,

i am trying to get a BCM_4350C2 Bluetooth dongle (USB) to work in a Ventura Hackintosh using BlueToolFixup.kext and BrcmPatchRAM2.kext.
the issue is, that i kind of finds a bluetooth chip, but is not able to activate bluetooth in the os:

here its stuck:

this is how the Kexts look like:

and here is systemprofiler USB:

and bluetooth:

looks kind of ok except the Bluetooth MAC address...


What am i missing here? is there a known bug or something?

Any help would be awesome!! Thanks a lot!

 

[Edhawk]

You are using a Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) Bluetooth dongle not a dongle with a Broadcom (BCM) Chip. The Bluetooth shows as BCM_4350C2 because of BlueToolFixup.kext, i.e. it is using a fake ID. The CSR dongle isn’t listed as a supported device on the BrcmPatchRam GitHub page. So your use do this kext and any other Broadcom kexts is not going to work.

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CSR BT dongles worked in older versions of macOS, but lost support with the release of Big Sur or Monterey, can’t recall when exactly.

If you remove/disable the Bluetooth kexts it might work, it should at least show the correct device details in the Bluetooth report, to match the USB report in System Information.

 

[pcace]

Uff you are so right... how stupid.
Sorry for wasting you time. And thanks for helping out. Just ordered a Broadcom USB Bluetooth dongle!

Cheers