[Guide] Sierra 12.6 on Thinkpad T430 Almost Perfect!

[piju]

Hi Everyone!

I have some news! I successfully did a Dual Band Atheros for the thinkpad T430

There is an Atheros ID's signature that passes on T430 whitelist. Follow the steps on my repository:
`https://github.com/ThiagoSchetini/AR9285-rebranding`

You can buy it on Ali Express (to rebrand) as i bought! You gonna see the link on my repository tutorial!

Hi ThiagoSchetini, just to clarify, this is not possible to perform from the T430 I intend to install this card in, right?

EDIT: Oops, my bad. It says clearly in the description that another non wifi-restricted laptop is needed.

 

[piju]

I had to find ye olde laptop in the bottom of ye seldom opened closet. And now I can report that the rebranding is completed, everything worked as intended.

Really awesome to write this from a T430 Hackintosh on 5 GHz wifi. Huge creds to ThiagoSchetini!

 

[nays]

Well i have some troubles i cant make working Display Port Out FullHD + Audio, my LG monitor is not recognized.

 

[nays]

Well i have some troubles i cant make working Display Port Out FullHD + Audio, my LG monitor is not recognized.

I think i miss something. Everything else is working. Yeah i know need to drop logs ... Collecting

 

[Feartech]

I think i miss something. Everything else is working. Yeah i know need to drop logs ... Collecting

as per rules, please update your hardware profile:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/account/

 

[karneef]

Hi ThiagoSchetini, just to clarify, this is not possible to perform from the T430 I intend to install this card in, right?

EDIT: Oops, my bad. It says clearly in the description that another non wifi-restricted laptop is needed.

hi friends,

I've done everything described in the guide for rebranding, this is my card, which I got from amazon:

E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
E: ID_PCI_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Network controller
E: ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Network controller
E: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Qualcomm Atheros
E: PCI_ID=168C:002A
E: PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:0c:00.0
E: PCI_SUBSYS_ID=168C:1001

so I modified the at9kio.c file to have the correct size, i dumped the eprom successfully, modifying the HEX values as described, but then I came across this,:

144F look for 4F 14 replace by A1 30
7156 look for 56 71 replace by AA 17

and then later, further down the page:

- PCI_SUBSYS_ID 144F:7156 will become 17AA:30A1

first of all, which one is it?

secondly, when I try to write even the ORIGINAL eprom back to the card, it never works.

can anyone make suggestions? im using a dell latitude, which is using the card without issue.

thanks!

 

[mamankuat]

Still can't get shutdown to work properly if there is USB Flash drive attached to usb port, it will restart the computer. Tried copying SSDT-PTSWAK to ACPI patched, with no success.

 

[RehabMan]

Still can't get shutdown to work properly if there is USB Flash drive attached to usb port, it will restart the computer. Tried copying SSDT-PTSWAK to ACPI patched, with no success.

Your config.plist is missing the required patches to rename _WAK and _PTS to ZWAK and ZPTS.
Note: SortedOrder not necessary (best to remove it).

Also, SSDT-PTSWAK.aml requires SSDT-RMCF.aml with appropriately configured RMCF.XPEE=1.

 

[mamankuat]

Thanks, I added SSDT-RMCF.aml and did renames _WAK and _PTS to ZWAK and ZPTS with same result as before.

"with with appropriately configured RMCF.XPEE=1."
I don't know what to do with this, can you help ?

edit : modified XPEE=1 in SSDT-RMCF, still same result

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks, I added SSDT-RMCF.aml and did renames _WAK and _PTS to ZWAK and ZPTS with same result as before.

"with with appropriately configured RMCF.XPEE=1."
I don't know what to do with this, can you help ?

edit : modified XPEE=1 in SSDT-RMCF, still same result

The SSDT-RMCF.aml in ACPI/patched has XPEE=0. I didn't check anything else.
(you should spend more time checking your own work)