[Success] WORKING Intel Wifi Drivers for 7265AC on Catalina

[igorkulman]

Did you check the logs for any errors?

Yeah, my stupidity, I had SIP enabled because I was doing some experiments.

 

[igorkulman]

Latest AppleIntelWifi.kext, download speed round 80Mbps @ 5G network.
View attachment 471410

NWID = your SSID
WPAKEY = your PWD
View attachment 471411

Edit: more firmware modules are added in this version, basically all Intel wifi modules, if you have older module like N2230 or newer module like AX200, try this kext, may work, but not sure.
View attachment 471414

On my AC7260 it is still quite unstable, ping ranges anywhere from error to 11 000 ms

❯ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=3.004 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=4.708 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=2.345 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=5.997 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=2.881 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=11.689 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=6.504 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
Request timeout for icmp_seq 8
Request timeout for icmp_seq 9
Request timeout for icmp_seq 10
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=53 time=4191.088 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=8 ttl=53 time=3187.400 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=9 ttl=53 time=2186.448 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10 ttl=53 time=1182.033 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=11 ttl=53 time=180.692 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=12 ttl=53 time=2.594 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=13 ttl=53 time=4.691 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=14 ttl=53 time=2.962 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=15 ttl=53 time=3.395 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=16 ttl=53 time=2.303 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=17 ttl=53 time=2.189 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=18 ttl=53 time=5.347 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=19 ttl=53 time=6.310 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=20 ttl=53 time=4.978 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=21 ttl=53 time=2.087 ms

Speedtest maxes out at 3mbs. Using a USB dongle I get stable ping under 2ms and 50mbs download on my network.

 

[shuhung]

Latest package with auto connection script (for OpenCore only), I have not test it yet, follow readme.txt instructions, use Google Translate to translate from Chinese to English.

 

[shuhung]

Speedtest maxes out at 3mbs.

Depended on wifi modules, some firmwares do not work fine on 5G network, some are caused by wrong country code, some not work well on 40Mbps bandwidth and interfered by BT module, especially on 2.4G network, may need manually find the best wifi channel and channel bandwidth.

Below is the max download speed of my 7265AC (@5G network, wifi channel @40 BT module disabled).

 

[enPause96]

Depended on wifi modules, some firmwares do not work fine on 5G network, some are caused by wrong country code, some not work well on 40Mbps bandwidth and interfered by BT module, especially on 2.4G network, may need manually find the best wifi channel and channel bandwidth.

Below is the max download speed of my 7265AC (@5G network, wifi channel @40 BT module disabled).
View attachment 471421

how did you achieve that please ?

 

[shuhung]

how did you achieve that please ?

For my 7265 AC, very stable @2.4G network/20MHz bandwidth, max download speed up to 44 Mbps, unstable @40MHz channel bandwidth mode.

On 5G/channel 40/bandwidth 40 or 80 MHz mode, get max download speed up to 90Mbps, but drop connection frequently, no KP issue but unstable.

1, recently, avoid to use Wifi Bandwidth @40 @80 MHz, both 2.4G and 5G same.
2, find out the best wifi channel, used fixed Wifi Channel if possible.

 

[ED2019]

Has anyone succeeded in making it work on AX200 with this new kext? For me it loads but there’s no sign of Wi-Fi/Ethernet network

 

[shuhung]

May be bug in kext or firmware, AX200 is supported by iwx-cc-a0-46 firmware module but it seems to be outdate, try update firmware.

How to verify firmware, see post #402.
Where to download latest firmware, see post #392, latest firmware for AX200 is iwlwifi-cc-a0-55.ucode.
See post #392, 394, 396, 398, 399, 401, 402, 404, how to replace firmware module.

 

[haydara]

Thank you shuhung for the latest kext, on ac1360 wifi , the download speed is 38-39 on 5ghz, but system restarts after sleep, kext loaded via terminal every time i boot.

 

[valenb]

Latest AppleIntelWifi.kext, download speed round 80Mbps @ 5G network.
View attachment 471410

NWID = your SSID
WPAKEY = your PWD
View attachment 471411

Edit: more firmware modules are added in this version, basically all Intel wifi modules, if you have older module like N2230 or newer module like AX200, try this kext, may work, but not sure.
View attachment 471414

This kext loaded once for my and now it output this:

/Users/vapr/Desktop/AppleIntelWiFi.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) kext (kmod) start/stop routine failed; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).