Sebinouse's Build : CustoMacMini 2014 - Intel NUC Haswell i5-4250U - El Capitan

[pure.wisdom]

Here it is (wake reason : spacebar pressed on USB keyboard on front left USB3.0 port)

 syslog | grep -i "wake reason"
 kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: PXSX EHC2 XHC PXSX (Network)
 kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 263.694013: ARPT: Wake Reason: Wake on Scan offload; Disconnect reason: Class 3 frame received from nonassociated STA
 kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: PXSX EHC2 XHC
 kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC2 XHC

thanks so much

 

[mosu]

Yesterday I decided to to go with a try on infrared USB adapter MOD on my NUC.
I already purchased an 4 pins at 2 mm apart pitch connector/cable (I do not found a pitch with two rows of pins, so I go by two connectors with only 4 pins).


The apple infrared board I already had from my previous hackintosh build.


After I look on specs for the internal USB 2.0 header on NUC to see wiring diagram (I use for now only 2 to 8 pins),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB


I switch the order of colors on my cable/connector to match those on USB standards (red on pin1, white (yelow on my case) on pin2, green on pin3 and black on pin 4) and I made the soldering directly on the infrared board.


Next step was to find a place inside my NUC for that board and cable, first I considered the already made hole of the Kensington lock, but that it is not in front, the already made hole for infrared that came with NUC was a good position, but this that means I had to remove that sensor from motherboard and I was not sure if the most OK think to do, in the end I noticed there is a space between SATA power connector ant the case, so this is the place that I decided it will tich all the boxes(or most of them ).
So I start measuring to mark on front of the case the place for a new hole in the case fora that sensor to work (infrared signals from remote to get to that sensor).
This is that hole seen from up front


The apple infrared board I isolated with black isolating tape for protection on electric failure, aligned with the hole made previously and taped on the wall of the case, and in the end after I put back the motherboard that pressed on, and ended to secure more in place that infrared board.(red rectangle)


After power up this is what system report say



My next project on this NUC will be
Broadcom Bcm94360cs2 and Mini PCI-E Flexible Adapter With Wireless Antenna
I will say how that work after I get the hardware.

 

[Sebinouse]

Yesterday I decided to to go with a try on infrared USB adapter MOD on my NUC.
I already purchased an 4 pins at 2 mm apart pitch connector/cable(I do not found a pitch with two rows of pins, so I by two connectors with only 4 pins).
View attachment 180810

The apple infrared board I already had from my previous hackintosh build.
View attachment 180811

After I look on specs for the internal USB 2.0 header on NUC to see wiring diagram (I use for now only 2 to 8 pins),
View attachment 180815
...
My next project on this NUC will be
Broadcom Bcm94360cs2 and Mini PCI-E Flexible Adapter With Wireless Antenna
I will say how that work after I get the hardware.

I did almost the same on mine : I soldered the cables of the IR Board to a 2mm pitch USB header adapter I previously purchased not internet.

As I switched my case a fanless one (Stream NC2), I didn't need to drill a second hole : I just had to place the new IR Receiver close to the built-in one, and it worked !

About BCM94360, I switched my wifi card to a genuine Apple BCM94360CDAX with a mini-PCIe adapter. This card has 4 antennas (only 2 has to be plugged-in) and requires a full length mini-PCIe Slot.

The main advantage of this card in that BT Mouse & Keyboard are recognized in BIOS and Clover ...

 

[mosu]

This card has 4 antennas (only 2 has to be plugged-in) and requires a full length mini-PCIe Slot.

Antenna connector on Apple card is the same size like ones that came with the NUC ?

So where you plug that adapter in mSATA port ?
from what I remember you already have that port occupied with a mSATA SSD.
I ask for because

requires a full length mini-PCIe

I am going with that flexible adapter.

The main advantage of this card in that BT Mouse & Keyboard are recognized in BIOS and Clover

that and that it is working OOTB, no more a need for kexts and delayed functionality(before that I used a TP-Link TL-WDN4800 that worked OOTB, whent I was at login, I was already connected to my wireless network)
And another advantage is that of price, on my Azure card I pay almost the same amount I pay on this two (card and adapter).

 

[Sebinouse]

Antenna connector on Apple card is the same size like ones that came with the NUC ?

So where you plug that adapter in mSATA port ?
from what I remember you already have that port occupied with a mSATA SSD.
I ask for because I am going with that flexible adapter.


that and that it is working OOTB, no more a need for kexts and delayed functionality(before that I used a TP-Link TL-WDN4800 that worked OOTB, whent I was at login, I was already connected to my wireless network)
And another advantage is that of price, on my Azure card I pay almost the same amount I pay on this two (card and adapter).

First I forgot to thank you for sharing this work : it's pretty neat and very well explained step by step

As I told you previously I modified my NUC to make it fanless. And the new Streacom case is a little bit bigger and can accept a 2,5' SSD. So from now own I have :

Intel NUS i5-4250U
Streacom NC2 case
USB 2.0 internal Header : Apple IR Receiver
Mini-PCIe Full size slot : BCM94360CDAX on Mini-PCIe adapter with 4 antennas
Mini-PCIe Half size slot : Mini-PCIe extender (ATTENTION it does NOT support mSATA drives !) for eGPU GTX750ti
Sata port : Crucial M500 SSD 500GB

If you want to keep your small genuine case you can as you plan use an extender and find a place to put the airport card inside the case or you can look for a half size mSATA SSD. The antennas of the NUC can be used on the airport card, in my case J2 & J3 had to be used to get BT.

 

[pure.wisdom]

version 10.11.4 official

 

[tr43]

Hi!

Updated to 10.11.4! Everything is running fine but sound is not working. I installed the kext and used the script several times without success. Seems like 10.11.4 bring us a new version of the kext and maybe this new one should be patched.

 

[pure.wisdom]

Hi!

Updated to 10.11.4! Everything is running fine but sound is not working. I installed the kext and used the script several times without success. Seems like 10.11.4 bring us a new version of the kext and maybe this new one should be patched.

View attachment 181906

I use cloverALC so I don't have a problem. You should wait to upgrade from Sebinouse

 

[RehabMan]

Hi!

Updated to 10.11.4! Everything is running fine but sound is not working. I installed the kext and used the script several times without success. Seems like 10.11.4 bring us a new version of the kext and maybe this new one should be patched.

View attachment 181906

http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-broken-audio-applehda-injector-dummyhda.html

 

[pure.wisdom]

http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-broken-audio-applehda-injector-dummyhda.html

thanks sir