- Joined
- Jan 3, 2013
- Messages
- 92
- Motherboard
- Lenovo ThinkPad P50
- CPU
- E3-1505M v5
- Graphics
- P530 + M2000M
Good work bro!!!! Where were you when I was pulling my hair out with this damn card for like 5 months!! Lol no seriously excellent work! I'm impressed and it looks like you did an amazing job solving this issue.
I opted for instead using an NGFF A/E adapter along with an Apple Broadcom BCM94360CS A/C Wireless Card which has been an absolute thing of beauty to use since installing it! No panics no extra steps and full functionality oob including within macOS Install USB as well as recovery which allows for installing macOS over the internet if you don't have access to an Install USB and your computer suffers some issue that requires the OS to be reinstalled. I purchased both items on Amazon with same day delivery for 40 bucks and change which is cheaper than all of the PC based NGFF options Ive found for Hackintosh Laptops (Dell DW1560, Dell DW1830, etc). I also have the Windows drivers saved if anyone decides to go this route and needs Windows functionality (Both WiFi and Bluetooth will function properly with the Widows drivers).
If anyone needs any more info on going with the official Apple card over the DW1820a then you pm me. If I don't get back to you right away its because I haven't opened my computer to see the notifications. That iMessage is strictly on my laptop and won't go to my personal iMessage account which is on my phone. But I'll get back to you as soon as I see the message. Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Lol, I literally just took your work and removed the /S/L/E modifying part, and sorry for buying a DW1560 when you were buying DW1820A (lol, I literally bought 2 DW1560s, one worked, one was faulty, and it was too much money to get a third one so I went with DW1820A and got into this hot mess). And also, the prices of these cards are HOT.
Luckily for you you have clearance for it, I re-opened my P50 (which apparently, Lenovo removed the whitelisting in the latest BIOS updates) to check for it, there is no way the card would fit in, the fan cutout blocks it (check this picture, the red text is where the wifi card goes, it's so small). I do have 2 M.2 M Slots, one has my NVMe drive, I was thinking of using the second with a M/B to 12+6 pin adapter, I would still have my DW1820A in for bluetooth reasons (M/B slots dont have a USB bus, unlike A/E), but I dont think that Lenovo would allow that.
And even with this solution, it's far from getting it working properly, someone needs to find why it *slows down* when using brcm4360 or why brcmNIC/MFG bork when trying to load it. With my (or your) method, it's still not stable when rebooting/starting/shutting down/changing users, however, I could work with it for days, with wake/sleep and will not crash on me.
I'll look into why it slows down but I DO NOT guarantee any outcome or fix, I have 0 hacking/reverse engineering/developing experience and I would probably ask more than find anything.
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