Rebranding/Make BCM943162ZP M.2 NGFF to work with Yosemite.

[the-darkvoid]

Ah, the first BCM943162ZP user.

I am very interested to see if AirportBrcm4360 will successfully drive this card.
Expectations are it will.

I double-checked the injector Rehabman supplied and that should be working.
Follow his instructions to ensure its properly installed.

No DSDT patch should be needed at all, keep everything vanilla there.

 

[RehabMan]

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No DSDT patch should be needed at all, keep everything vanilla there.

@the-darkvoid

Thanks for checking my work... I have no BCM hardware, so no direct experience (although I'm supposed to receive a couple of cards today).

@Ciitizen872

Just to add/clarify here too... In the ioreg I see no DSDT patch active (so that is good).

And make sure your IO80211Family.kext is vanilla as well.

 

[Ciitizen872]

So just to be sure i do the process right
I need to install thoses 3 kext in S/L/E , without name modification right ?



Edit 1 : Just finished to re-install the 3 Kexts
I will do a reboot and let u know
See process

Process.gif
https://copy.com/7IEXUyc2mJxia7oR

Edit 2 : Nope, seem to not working, no wireless icon on top, no bluetooth detected.
4360 apple kext i loaded.

 

[motitas]

great to see a new ngff m.2 card in development. hopefully we'll also see the dell dw1560 coming onto the market soon. Any pointers on where to find this card right now?

 

[Ciitizen872]

Well i bought this one off Aliexpress.
But seem like its unsupported, like said in the post just before the card seem to not work with the 4360 driver so...

Just bought a BCM94352Z M.2 NGFF of german ebay seller Hebeda (trusted)
Last time i checked he still have 3 in stock. (79EUR/piece)

I can do further testing if somes provide another solutions/things to test with the BCM943162ZP thus !
In Ubuntu 14.04 on dual boot the card is undetected also, well the bluetooth part seem to work but the wireless nope. I think the card is too new/not mainstream so no driver available on linux too..

 

[RehabMan]

So just to be sure i do the process right
I need to install thoses 3 kext in S/L/E , without name modification right ?

View attachment 126495

Edit 1 : Just finished to re-install the 3 Kexts
I will do a reboot and let u know
See process

Process.gif
https://copy.com/7IEXUyc2mJxia7oR

Edit 2 : Nope, seem to not working, no wireless icon on top, no bluetooth detected.
4360 apple kext i loaded.

View attachment 126497

View attachment 126498

Check your system.log to see if there are any errors coming from the driver during startup that might give us a clue. It is starting to seem like the card is not supported.

Note: WiFi has nothing to do with bluetooth.

 

[the-darkvoid]

Well i bought this one off Aliexpress.
But seem like its unsupported, like said in the post just before the card seem to not work with the 4360 driver so...

I can do further testing if somes provide another solutions/things to test with the BCM943162ZP thus !
In Ubuntu 14.04 on dual boot the card is undetected also, well the bluetooth part seem to work but the wireless nope. I think the card is too new/not mainstream so no driver available on linux too..

I think we need to do some more testing before your give up.
Post your ioregistry and system log as Rehabman suggested.
It should tell us a bit more about what is going on.

Also the BMC94352 WiFi does not work in Ubuntu 14.04 by default, it needs a custom driver compiled from Broadcom.

 

[Ciitizen872]

Hi, thanks for your support
What did i need to search in the system log ? I have a buunnnchh of log including from APP etc..
Also i need to check it at boot ?

 

[RehabMan]

Hi, thanks for your support
What did i need to search in the system log ? I have a buunnnchh of log including from APP etc..
Also i need to check it at boot ?

Boot starts at BOOT_TIME. Check it carefully for logs that may be coming from the BCM driver.

 

[Ciitizen872]

Here the boot log, i cleared a little bit like the thing uselesss Calendar logins etc...

View attachment Boot.log.zip

Edit :

Found this in the log

16/02/2015 6:52:49,000 PM kernel[0]: ARPT: 2.811752: AirPort_Brcm43XX::start: failed