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Can anyone comment on the potential for a combi card for the 4540s.

Wifi is working thanks to DSDT in PBI 6.1b6, and most people have used a USB stub for BT as they either cannot get BT on the combi to work, or can but with wakeup after sleep being at best patchy.

The good news about the 4540s is that it has no whitelist at present, which means it can take pretty well any combi card. I have a 9285 which I have yet to try and a DW1702 (Dell version of an AR9287) on the way, both containing a 3011 BT slab.

Examples of claims of at least partial success are in

http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook-4530s/51138-bluetooth-totally-gone.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-proboo...tooth-wakeup-new-kext-firmware-upload-19.html
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=53556&start=100
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=35475&start=10
http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/16474-enabling-bluetooth-p8p67-boards-bt-211-a-21.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/86219-azurewave-nb037h-wifi-bt-combo-kext.html

Could anyone either point to which of these are the best starting point to having a fully-working BT card in ML with the 4540s, and extra work that may be required, or any extra detail that is not evident in the post that is referred to?

I do have working USB stub for BT but it would be nice to have everything in the box and while I have read the above threads, it is unclear what the exact state of play is, particularly with regard to wake up, and also in the new environment of the 4540s rather than 4530s.

Hoping someone can stand up and help.
 
jonessl said:
All -

Can anyone comment on the potential for a combi card for the 4540s.

Wifi is working thanks to DSDT in PBI 6.1b6, and most people have used a USB stub for BT as they either cannot get BT on the combi to work, or can but with wakeup after sleep being at best patchy.

The good news about the 4540s is that it has no whitelist at present, which means it can take pretty well any combi card. I have a 9285 which I have yet to try and a DW1702 (Dell version of an AR9287) on the way, both containing a 3011 BT slab.

Examples of claims of at least partial success are in

http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook-4530s/51138-bluetooth-totally-gone.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-proboo...tooth-wakeup-new-kext-firmware-upload-19.html
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=53556&start=100
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=35475&start=10
http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/16474-enabling-bluetooth-p8p67-boards-bt-211-a-21.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/86219-azurewave-nb037h-wifi-bt-combo-kext.html

Could anyone either point to which of these are the best starting point to having a fully-working BT card in ML with the 4540s, and extra work that may be required, or any extra detail that is not evident in the post that is referred to?

I do have working USB stub for BT but it would be nice to have everything in the box and while I have read the above threads, it is unclear what the exact state of play is, particularly with regard to wake up, and also in the new environment of the 4540s rather than 4530s.

Hoping someone can stand up and help.
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You'll find out when you get it and you can test. I'm going to guess you'll have the same (poor) experience since you're still talking Atheros AR3xxx chipset/firmware.
 
RehabMan said:
You'll find out when you get it and you can test. I'm going to guess you'll have the same (poor) experience since you're still talking Atheros AR3xxx chipset/firmware.
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Thanks, I hope you and other experts will help me once I have thrown a few kexts at it!
 
Don_Grappler said:
see here.
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4540s will be more flexible by having no wihitelist. BT wakeup will be most difficult issue. Some claim to have dealt with it but entries are terse, hence I guess I will need tondo a lot of tinkering. From the spreadsheet, only the HP AR9287 works. But that is only inferred not explicitly sated with instructions.
 
jonessl said:
Thanks, i will try that first. If i need to change hardware addresses as seen by IOJones, what utility can achieve this (do I simply attack a plist with a text editor)?
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TextEdit works, assuming you can handle XML/plist syntax. Otherwise use Xcode or a plist editor...
 
RehabMan said:
TextEdit works, assuming you can handle XML/plist syntax. Otherwise use Xcode or a plist editor...
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I knew I'd have to get to grips with Xcode at some stage. Looking forward to giving it a whirl. Thx. I hate XML however!
 
jonessl said:
From the spreadsheet, only the HP AR9287 works. But that is only inferred not explicitly sated with instructions.
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Or the AR5B195. I had filtered it out in the spreadsheet, but with a device ID fix it is said there to work.
 
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