[Guide] Airport - PCIe Half Mini v2

[toleda]

Typo

Fixed. Thanks.

 

[silentparty]

As of 10.9.5, my card is no longer seen as being and Airport card I'm using toleda's kext enabler for the aw-ce123h.

Is this to do with the kext signing changes in 10.9.5? Or have I missed something? The kext enables the card, however it no longer makes the card work natively (as an Airport card).

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. I've searched but came up with nothing.

 

[kakomalo]

Hi, i've just installed Mavericks 10.9.5 in my probook 6560b using clover install, everything goes right except Wireless. I rebranded an AR5B195 (ar9285) to an HP ar9380 (168c:0030:103c:1627) due to whitelist issues in bios.


Works flawlessly both in windows & ubuntu, but i can't make it works in OS X. It's recognized as network interface, but its no available at network settings.


I try every method mencioned on this post, but still down. Till I can understand, to make work an ar9285 it's just needed to tell OS X that use the same driver that ar9380, so this must work oob, with this kind of rebrand.


In other way I want to try Rehabman's fan reset rebranding back the wireless NIC to ar9285 but as I'm working with colver installation, I'm not sure where to install Fanreset.dylib.






Maybe you can help me a little. Thanks.

 

[RehabMan]

Hi, i've just installed Mavericks 10.9.5 in my probook 6560b using clover install, everything goes right except Wireless. I rebranded an AR5B195 (ar9285) to an HP ar9380 (168c:0030:103c:1627) due to whitelist issues in bios.


Works flawlessly both in windows & ubuntu, but i can't make it works in OS X. It's recognized as network interface, but its no available at network settings.


I try every method mencioned on this post, but still down. Till I can understand, to make work an ar9285 it's just needed to tell OS X that use the same driver that ar9380, so this must work oob, with this kind of rebrand.


In other way I want to try Rehabman's fan reset rebranding back the wireless NIC to ar9285 but as I'm working with colver installation, I'm not sure where to install Fanreset.dylib.

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Maybe you can help me a little. Thanks.

You have an AR9285 (168c:2b) rebranded as AR9380 (168c:30).

Problem is AR9380 is not supported by the binary (not in half-mini), and even if the binary does support it it will be doing the wrong thing since it will be treating it as an AR9380 instead of what it actually is (AR9285). I just helped someone take an AR9280 (168c:2a) rebranded as AR9485 (168c:32). Required patching the binary.

You can read about it here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/lion-lapt...e-unibeast-parts-multibeast-8.html#post880829. You'll need some slight tweaks to the patches to account for the different math.

Something like:

sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x83\xc1\xf9\x83\xf9\x29|\x83\xc1\xf4\x83\xf9\x29|g' AirPortAtheros40
sudo perl -pi -i 's|\x66\x83\xf8\x30\x0f\x87\xa7\x00\x00\x00|\x66\xb8\x2b\x00\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90|g' AirPortAtheros40

First patch takes care of the table lookup to treat 0x30 as 0x2b.
Second patch takes care of the range comparison to just assume the device is 0x2b.

You will still need an injector (for 168c:30) or DSDT patch to map the device-id to 0x2a, such that the (patched) kext loads.

 

[toleda]

As of 10.9.5, my card is no longer seen as being an Airport card

Cosmetic only, binary patch required. Disappears after every update. Google search.

 

[custom-mac]

Blackote, yoshi.15 or anyone else have the problem of AW-CE123H bluetooth being recognized but not being able to pair with Apple Wireless Keyboard or Apple Trackpad?

I'm using these 2 kext:
bcm4352.kext from toleda (wi-fi works!)
BTFirmwareUploader.kext from EMlyDinEsH (v2.5.2)

and even deleted:
Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist

I can see the bluetooth icon in the top bar, I can "Open Bluetooth Preferences...", but I cannot get the devices to pair!

Note: 9 series motherboard GA Z97N Gaming 5

I had similar issues with my Azurewave AW-CE123H, but I was in luck as I had an alternative WiFi adapter with the same hardware: "NEW ACER M5-583P Broadcom WIFI CARD BCM94352HMB". I swapped the Azurewave adapter with Acer version and Acer version works perfectly now without any changes to the machine.

It seems some Azurewave AW-CE123H ("lottery" drawing) have issue with pairing under OS X. They do work on Windows just fine, some folks even got OS X to work when hot-rebooted from Windows. Those unlucky "lottery" adapters are also not very stable and could stop working all together when you toggle bluetooth off/on. The lucky ones are working flawlessly though including after sleep. It may be a function of host hardware as well. Acer version worked for me in 4540 and 4440 HP ProBooks.

 

[custom-mac]

Anyone has patches for BCM94352 HMB: 5GHz and Extreme for Yosemite 10.10?

[SOLVED by Skvo on insanelymac]

For OS X 10.10 DP7.

Cosmetic Fix "Unknown -> AirPort " (optional)

Name: AirPortBrcm4360
Find: 6B 10 00 00 75 0D
Replace: 6B 10 00 00 90 90

5 GHz Fix for BCM94352HMB with XT country:

Name: AirPortBrcm4360
Find: 58 54 00 2B 18 2C 21 00 20
Replace: 58 54 08 0A 36 1C 47 00 0A

 

[custom-mac]

BTW, interesting observation of bluetooth on BCM94352 HMB: it would fail to pair, fail to reconnect to already paired devices and works very choppy when booted with kernel caches, but if you boot with kernel caches disabled - it works fine, figures.

Also, the disposition of the items in "USB Device Tree" tab changes with/without caches. May be it has something to do with bluetooth stability. With caches enabled - you would not see your bluetooth adapter listed until you click on the last USB hub, then it would magically appear. When caches disabled - it would be present in the device tree right away. Is there a way to exclude BTFirmwareUploader kext from being cached?

 

[nobodynose]

Anyone has patches for BCM94352 HMB: 5GHz and Extreme for Yosemite 10.10?

[SOLVED by Skvo on insanelymac]

For OS X 10.10 DP7.

Cosmetic Fix "Unknown -> AirPort " (optional)

Name: AirPortBrcm4360
Find: 6B 10 00 00 75 0D
Replace: 6B 10 00 00 90 90

5 GHz Fix for BCM94352HMB with XT country:

Name: AirPortBrcm4360
Find: 58 54 00 2B 18 2C 21 00 20
Replace: 58 54 08 0A 36 1C 47 00 0A

This worked for me after upgrading to Yosemite 10.10 today (Azurewave card). Still no joy with the Bluetooth though - I'm officially giving up on that, unless a fix comes around. I'll just use my GMyle USB Bluetooth.

 

[tom.humphrey]

I updated to Yosemite today. I've got a BCM94352 in my intel nuc d54250 booting using Clover.

I've got wifi + bluetooth both working (although not being recognised as an airport card but seems to work fine anyway)

I was just wondering if anyone has got continuity/handoff working? or got any tips to get it working

It's saying that it isn't supported in my system profiler.

Thanks in advance

Tom