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The Perfect Mini PCIe WiFi and Bluetooth Combo card for Notebooks


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Credits goes to SKVO (applelife.ru) Link to his post for this Country code fix discovery.

Changing the Country code from XT to US:
Find box
01 58 54 00

Replace box
01 55 53 00

Hi, This is my first post. Thanks for your hard work here.

 

Due to reading here and at apple life ru I have purchased a few wireless ac cards for testing.

 

My favorite so far has been the BCM94360CD that I grafted onto a Mini PCIE card. Has worked perfectly in a Mac Pro 5,1 in 10.9.2 and 10.9.3 Beta.

 

I suggest that you have another look at the above code, I do believe that it is in error.

 

Wanted to save someone some bother trying to figure out why it wasn't working for them.

 

I was able to get a 4352 running on ac network in a 3,1 Mac Pro using the various posted hacks.

 

Sadly upfdating to 10.9.3 killed it so I am trying the hacks on new kexts vs. using old ones.

 

BTW, I am referring to the hex edit mentioned above, if you follow the link he says to use 01 58 58 IIRC, not the code you have above.

 

Perhaps he changed it?

 

In any case, the script worked fine.

 

I have a 4352 running as Airport Extreme at AC speeds in 5Ghz band using the combo of hacks.

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Can't use magic trackpad with AR5B195, simply 3 or 4 fingers gestures doesn't works, when i try to use these gestures the pointer hang out and stop moving for a while (a minute)

 

I resolve this problem with a belkin bluetooth adapter(allproblems solved), but i prefer use my bought and integrated bluetooth PCIe.

 

Thanks for help

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Broadcom BCM4352 HMB 5gz Wireless+BT 4.0  (AzureWave AW-CE123H) on Yosemite 10.10.1

For those with issues surrounding handoff support and 5gz using US country code you want to do the following:
 
1) download and install BTFirmwareUploader_v2.6_Final.zip

2) download and run wireless_bcm94352-100_patch.command.zip

a. Select 1 (for Handoff only)

 enter password

3) Copy the kext "IO80211Family.kext" from System/Library/Extensions to Desktop
4) Go to folder: IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4360.kext/Contents/MacOS/ and  Open the "AirPortBrcm4360" in hexfiend app
5) Press Command + F to search
6) Enter the following hex codes in Find and replace box

a) Find: 6B 10 00 00 75 0D   Replace: 6B 10 00 00 90 90  (for Cosmetic Fix "Unknown -> AirPort " )

 Find: 58 54 00 2B 18 2C 21 00 20  Replace: 55 53 08 0A 36 1C 47 00 0A (for 5 GHz Fix for BCM94352HMB with US country) - NOTE: This is the same as using this: sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x58\x54\x00\x2B\x18\x2C\x21\x00\x20|\x55\x53\x08\x0A\x36\x1C\x47\x00\x0A|g'/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4360.kext/Contents/MacOS/AirPortBrcm4360 

OR  Find: 58 54 00 2B 18 2C 21 00 20   Replace: 58 54 08 0A 36 1C 47 00 0A  (for 5 GHz Fix for BCM94352HMB with XT country)

7) Save, Close & Install the kext.

8) Open Terminal and run the following: sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/
9) Repair Disk Permissions

10) Restart

 

OTHER NOTES: I found that it didn't make any difference to make the following patch to the kext "AirPortBrcm4360.kext" located at System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/Plugins/ using: 

 

<key>IONameMatch</key>

<array>

<string>pci14e4,43b1</string>

<string>pci14e4,43a0</string>

</array>

 

So I just left it out. Works the same without it.

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Hi, great work for yosemite 10.10.1 but what about Mavericks 10.9.5? I added <string>pci14e4,43b1</string> to plist in AirPortBrcm4360.kext and my wlan now works but only in 2,4GHz mode and it supports wifi channels 1-14. My Wifi AcessPoint is set to 13th channel, so I can join. But if I do fix to 5GHz, my wlan card supports only 1-11 channels in 2,4GHz mode and the I can't not join. 

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Hi,

I have installed in my notebook  1. Atheros AR5B195 (SpecificationsAR9285 WiFi b/g/n (1x) / AR3011 Bluetooth 3.0.

Wifi work well but bluetooth is not recognize. 

DCPI manager show only 

168C, 002B, 106B, 008F, Qualcomm Atheros, AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express).

I try to install BTFirmwareUploader.kext but I obtained the same result.

How I can proceed?

 

Thanks in advance

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