saadbazaz Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I'm running Big Sur 11.1 Beta successfully on Dell Latitude e7240. So far, no problems save that I can't get the WiFi and Bluetooth to work. My card is DW 1601. I've seen Herve's list of supported WiFi cards but I'm having a tough time understanding exactly what to do and where to start from (By now you can tell that I'm a newbie in Hackintoshing). All I know is that my WiFi card should work after some patching. What do I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted December 8, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 8, 2020 You should consider replacing that card by a fully supported Broadcom model. These AR9462 (and other AR9485/AR9565) were only supported with a special re-written Atheros40 kext and support has always been sort of poor not to say inexistant since Catalina. Assuming your E7240 is fitted with a mini-PCIe slot, go for one of those DW1550, AW-CB123H or AW-CB160H. If you have a full size slot, you may even consider a real Apple card (eg: BCM94360CD) in an adapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saadbazaz Posted December 8, 2020 Author Share Posted December 8, 2020 Thank you so much for the response, @Hervé. Highly appreciated. I've opened up my laptop and found one ½Min PCIe slot and another slot Min PCIe. (Image attached) I'll narrow down the options as they're limited and expensive where I live. Do you think the following cards would work? 1. MacBook a1185 WiFi + BT (No adapter as such) 2. Dell DW 1510 3. AzureWave AW-CB123H (Which you've recommended) 4. This card from AliBaba If none then I could play safe and buy the more expensive dw1550. I guess if I could prefer, I would go with a ½Min PCIe so I can add another SSD in the other slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted December 8, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 8, 2020 Answer to #1 is a definite "No!", this is an old Broadcom card for an old and obsolete CD/C2D MacBook A1181 of some sort so you can forget about that card (A1185 is the actual battery for Mac model A1181 by the way!). If you've read our inventories + my previous answer, answer is obviously "Yes!" to the other 3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saadbazaz Posted December 8, 2020 Author Share Posted December 8, 2020 @Hervé Best! I can get the cheapo WiFi card (dw1510) to get things up and running, finally. It'll be a great change not having to connect an Android all the time for tethering I'll post in the forum when installed and working. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted December 8, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 8, 2020 DW1510 should work with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saadbazaz Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 @Hervé I'm so stoked! I just found a cheap AzureWave AW-CE123H off the second-hand market and immediately bought it. Can you let me know what exactly the DSDT/Kext patch is? As soon as I find a starting place I'll get right to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saadbazaz Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 UPDATE: It WORKED! What an amazing day, been waiting months for this. Working: - WiFi - Bluetooth - Airdrop Untested: - Handoff I'll update the entire process in a separate thread :'D Thank you again @Hervé Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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