<< Solved >> Help with Bluetooth on BCM943602CS (0x05ac:8290)

[randombrain]

Hi, would you please share how you changed the UsbConnector value to 0xFF?

I used an SSDT file in /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched/. See attached my /E/C/A/patched/SSDT-3.aml, lines 117–124. Open/edit with MaciASL. I think I was lucky enough to get a basic file for my board that someone else had already put together, so I only had to tweak it a bit.

Also because I have too many USB ports on my board, I had to specifically exclude some from loading so they wouldn't take up space from ports that I do need. In the boot args of my config.plist I have

uia_exclude=HS08;HS11;HS13;HS14;SS09;SS10;HS08;SS08

(note that HS12 is NOT excluded because that's what the Bluetooth card is connected to).

 

[Ninjuan]

Hello,
i have the same card, but in a genuine iMac7,1 with upgraded cpu for the mojave installation. Card worked fine on the old OS (Yosemite). Bluetooth stopped working after upgrade using dosdude1's mojave patcher.

i dont get any bluetooth related error in console except
Oct 19 23:23:22 iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.IOBluetoothUSBDFU[214]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

on manually launching the iobluetoothusbdfu, i get the following output:
standard 23:42:24.945866 +0200 IOBluetoothUSBDFUTool IORegistry idProduct 0x8290
standard 23:42:24.945947 +0200 IOBluetoothUSBDFUTool IORegistry bcdDevice 0x0119
error 23:42:24.989401 +0200 IOBluetoothUSBDFUTool Could not query interface 0x7f91c1c082b0 for device 0x0 with error 0x80000004
standard 23:42:53.907213 +0200 rapportd Bluetooth address changed: 44:87:3F:64:C9:81
standard 23:43:25.006153 +0200 IOBluetoothUSBDFUTool MessageTracer: load_domain_whitelist_search_tree:73: Search tree file's format version number (0) is not supported

@RehabMan do you have any clue why bluetooth is not working?

 

[stavroskaukalouris]

@Ninjuan: I have the exact same issue. Also an iMac 7,1 with the BCM943602CS card.
WiFi working, Bluetooth not.

I tried the updated kexts from https://forum.amd-osx.com/viewtopic.php?t=2461 and it seems to work now.

It involves modifying kexts however. Any updates on your part?