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I had a lot of problems to find working drivers for my Bluetooth card (together with PCIe adapter), so I decided to share the solution.
Here is the Adapter that I used, but I guess people with other adapters may encounter a similar problem.
ABWB 802.11AC WI-FI With Bluetooth 4.0 PCI-Express PCI-E Combo
By reading an old post on the ****** I found the solution (Thx MysticalOS from ******). The problem is that sometimes the vendor ID on the Bluetooth is Broadcom and sometimes it's apple and even valid drivers may not work simply because vendor ID doesn't match even if hardware actually is a match. The solution is simply manually to install the drivers.
Download the drivers from MacOs
Downloading drivers on MacOs computer is quite easy:
1. Launch Boot Camp Assistant, then open the Boot Camp Assistant application
2. Select Action on the Menu Bar.
3. Select Download Windows Support Software
4. Select location to save the drivers (WindowsSupport folder will be created at this location)
* Different MacBooks may download different versions of Windows Support Software (mine was 6969). To check the version open WindowsSupport 6969\BootCamp\BootCamp.xml and look for this tag <BuildInfo BuildNumber="6969" ProductName="Boot Camp">
Download the drivers from Windows
To download drivers from on Windows computer, you can use Brigadier (https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier). After the download WindowsSupport folder containing drivers will appear in the selected location.
Add driver to the system
Run WindowsSupport\BootCamp\Drivers\Broadcom\BroadcomBluetooth64.exe (probably similar procedure will work for WiFi, so you could also run BroadcomWirelessUDMx64.exe to add drivers to the system)
Install the driver
1. Open Device Manager
2. Right-click on the device (Bluetooth USB Host Controller)
3. Update the driver
4. Browse my computer for driver software
5. Let me pick from a list...
6. Bluetooth
7. Select Broadcom, Select Blutonium BCM2035 Bluetooth 2.4 GHz Single Chip Transceiver
8. Ignore update driver warning and click Yes
9. Celebrate
Here is the Adapter that I used, but I guess people with other adapters may encounter a similar problem.
ABWB 802.11AC WI-FI With Bluetooth 4.0 PCI-Express PCI-E Combo
By reading an old post on the ****** I found the solution (Thx MysticalOS from ******). The problem is that sometimes the vendor ID on the Bluetooth is Broadcom and sometimes it's apple and even valid drivers may not work simply because vendor ID doesn't match even if hardware actually is a match. The solution is simply manually to install the drivers.
Download the drivers from MacOs
Downloading drivers on MacOs computer is quite easy:
1. Launch Boot Camp Assistant, then open the Boot Camp Assistant application
2. Select Action on the Menu Bar.
3. Select Download Windows Support Software
4. Select location to save the drivers (WindowsSupport folder will be created at this location)
* Different MacBooks may download different versions of Windows Support Software (mine was 6969). To check the version open WindowsSupport 6969\BootCamp\BootCamp.xml and look for this tag <BuildInfo BuildNumber="6969" ProductName="Boot Camp">
Download the drivers from Windows
To download drivers from on Windows computer, you can use Brigadier (https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier). After the download WindowsSupport folder containing drivers will appear in the selected location.
Add driver to the system
Run WindowsSupport\BootCamp\Drivers\Broadcom\BroadcomBluetooth64.exe (probably similar procedure will work for WiFi, so you could also run BroadcomWirelessUDMx64.exe to add drivers to the system)
Install the driver
1. Open Device Manager
2. Right-click on the device (Bluetooth USB Host Controller)
3. Update the driver
4. Browse my computer for driver software
5. Let me pick from a list...
6. Bluetooth
7. Select Broadcom, Select Blutonium BCM2035 Bluetooth 2.4 GHz Single Chip Transceiver
8. Ignore update driver warning and click Yes
9. Celebrate
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