Intel WiFi Driver Effort

[edexNORTH]

Guys! after a fresh install of 11.4 why the intel-3160 detected out of the box. Why? I didn't even install the kext.

 

[RehabMan]

Guys! after fresh a install of 11.4 why the intel-3160 detected out of the box. Why? I didn't even install the kext.

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DPCIManager display has nothing to do with anything being "recognized".

 

[edexNORTH]

DPCIManager display has nothing to do with anything being "recognized".

I meant "detected" not "recognized" or "activated".

I figured it out! Its "pci.ids" file in DPCIManager app folder.

thank you for such a kindly reply RehabMan

 

[edexNORTH]

Tested for Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8260.

Checkout the log file down there.

 

[RehabMan]

I meant "detected" not "recognized" or "activated".

I figured it out! Its "pci.ids" file in DPCIManager app folder.

DPCIManager just reads what is on the PCI bus (from ioreg).

 

[ar3s3ru]

All,

I've started work on a project to port the current-generation Intel WiFi drivers from Linux to OS X. Right now it's very, very early in a process that looks to be a very, very long one. I have a kext that identifies compatible hardware and loads and digests the matching firmware, but it doesn't yet do important things like, say, connect to a network.

Still, it's a start, and if anybody has a recent Intel WiFi card and wants to give it a spin and confirm whether it recognized the card successfully, there's a build with instructions here:

https://github.com/ammulder/AppleIntelWiFiMVM/releases/

The list of compatible hardware is here (it includes the Broadwell and Skylake NUC WiFi cards):

https://github.com/ammulder/AppleIntelWiFiMVM/

I can try to make some developments on it if you like, but I would need and hint on where to start (what routines are missing for making it fully functional, after firmware parsing)

 

[shimuldn]

Any update for this project?

 

[Narigaur]

What happened to this driver project?

 

[TriTon2000]

Please do not give up the intel ac7265 project, we are confident that only you guys , and that they can carry through this project.

 

[bronch]

Please please please please please please, could you port also Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100 driver?