Fenvi T919 and Broadcom wifi back in Sonoma with OCLP

[miliuco]

Note: macOS Sonoma 14.4 breaks OCLP patch
Post 418 (page 42).

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Good morning. My wifi is Fenvi T919.
I know that it is not the ideal situation that many of us want to have the system as vanilla as possible, but what the OCLP team has achieved is amazing.

I have followed TO THE LETTER the instructions that have been published here (Hackintosh notes):
https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/pull/1077#issuecomment-1646934494
And it has worked well. I have wifi and Airdrop back in Sonoma.
Note that khronokernel's instructions must be followed exactly.

Don't forget to enable (Enabled=True) 3 extensions to be added and the extension to be blocked, they are disabled by default.
If I don't block com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily the system won't boot with KP.

I'm attaching my config.plist in case it helps anyone having trouble, check out these specific details:

• csr-active-config | data | 03080000
• boot-args | string | amfi=0x80
• com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily blocked (Enabled=True / Strategy=Exclude)
• IOSkywalk.kext, IO80211FamilyLegacy.kext and AirPortBrcmNIC.kext added in this order (Kexts folder and config.plist).

I guess incremental updates are lost with this setup. But the OCLP approach works, at least for me.

Note: there is a way to avoid AMFI disabled, read the last section AMFI and AMFIpass.kext of this post:

[GUIDE] How to install macOS 14 Sonoma on Z390 Aorus Elite motherboard using OpenCore

Preface Sonoma required fewer changes to OpenCore and kexts than were necessary to install older systems such as Big Sur, which was a big challenge for developers. This time, minor changes allowed Sonoma to be installed almost immediately after the first beta version was released. Of course...

www.tonymacx86.com

Spoiler: Wifi images

Note: there’s a semi-automated patch available, thanks to AppleOSX, aplicable only when installing from USB, tried with success -> link.

 

[LasaterJ]

What's the URL for the Open Core Legacy Patcher donations page? They have really earned my financial support.

 

[miliuco]

What's the URL for the Open Core Legacy Patcher donations page? They have really earned my financial support.

OpenCore Legacy Patcher - Open Collective

Open source project dedicated to getting older Macs running newer versions of macOS.

opencollective.com

 

[dreidel]

That’s great news.

Will this also work with regular OpenCore?

 

[miliuco]

@dreidel
Not for now. OCLP is needed to apply the root patch.

 

[esafeddie]

Note: as it's a preliminary fix, maybe it doesn't work on some systems.

Nice write up my friend, still early days but the outlook is promising. Happy to report all working on my system i.e Air Drop and iPhone Camera to Mac Hand Off.

 

[LasaterJ]

OpenCore Legacy Patcher - Open Collective

Open source project dedicated to getting older Macs running newer versions of macOS.

opencollective.com

Thanks! Just donated. They are doing a great service for Hackintoshers and owners of older Apple hardware AND the environment. Open Source Collective is a 501(c)(3) (non-profit organization in the USA). Very cool!

I just built a new machine to run Ventura and I am really relieved I will get at least one more major OS update out of this hardware (which means, I hope, at least 3 more years of security updates from Apple?)

 

[miliuco]

@LasaterJ
Great job, of course, OCLP and OpenCore. Sure contributions help them to go forward. Users benefit.
I hope we'll have Hacks (like your Z490 and my Z390) updated for the next 2-3 years, maybe 4, with the help of devs. Later, we'll see. If there are 2012 Macs running Ventura thanks to OCLP, we'll see how long we stick around. What I have enjoyed since 2005 can no longer be erased.

 

[miliuco]

Important

com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily blocking must have Enabled=True and Strategy=Exclude. Otherwise you get kernel panic at boot.

 

[suren6791]

If any has this working on a Z790 please let us know here as well. Been struggling to get my Z790 to boot Sonoma after adding these changes to the config.