Broadcom BCM43225HMB (Azurewave AW-NB290H)

[GigaSonic]

Hi to all.. anyone have the same broadcom card? i have installed it but is no working very well (signal loss) anyone have the last kext for this? is airport supported? thanks

[Hervé]

What are the PCI ids? 14e4:4357?

[GigaSonic]

where i can find it?

[Hervé]

In IOReg output or lspci command output (if lspci package installed) or DCPIManager app; that kind of stuff. Do you have the make and model at hand?

 

If confirmed to be 14e4:4357 as expected, you normally need to patch the Brcm4360 kext or your DSDT to inject your card details.

[GigaSonic]

oops, is 943225HMB

[Hervé]

BCM943225HMB, yes same thing. You have AzureWave AW-NB290H model, so indeed Ven/Dev id = 14e4:4357.

 

What actions did you take to get it working (not normally working OOB afaik)? Brcm4360 kext patching or DSDT injection?

 

I've read several reports of people complaining about performance with this card. It'll surely depend on the type of wireless network you attach to: 2.4GHz (lower speed) or 5GHz (higher speed) network, i.e. your wireless box/router capability.

[GigaSonic]

unfourtunally i'm pretty n00b about hackintosh... there is this kext already patched somewhere?

[Hervé]

What version of OS X do you run? Please post your DSDT and IO80211Family kext (should be in /S/L/E unless you have a patched copy somewhere like in /L/E or /E/E with a Chameleon/Enoch-based installation or CLOVER/kexts/10.x with a Clover-based installation). Help us help you here...

[GigaSonic]

Here you are... the wifi acctually works bluetooth not... and sometimes wifi prestations sucks...

 

IO80211Family.kext.zip

DSDT.zip (rename dsdt.zip in .aml)

[Hervé]

Your IO80211Family kext and its PlugIn AirPortBrcm4360 kexts are full vanilla/unmodified/unpatched.

 

But...   guess what I found in your DSDT?

               Device (ARPT)
               {
                    Name (_ADR, Zero)
[...]
                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                        {
                            Return (Buffer (One)
                            {
                                 0x03
                            })
                        }
                        Return (Package (0x0E)
                        {
                            "AAPL,slot-name", 
                            Buffer (0x08)
                            {
                                "AirPort"
                            }, 
                            "device-id", 
                            Unicode ("0"), 
                            "device_type", 
                            Buffer (0x08)
                            {
                                "AirPort"
                            }, 
                            "model", 
                            Buffer (0x33)
                            {
                                "Atheros 9285 802.11 b/g/n Wireless Network Adapter"
                            }, 
                            "name", 
                            "pci168c,30", 
                            "subsystem-id", 
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                 0x13, 0x66, 0x00, 0x00
                            }, 
                            "subsystem-vendor-id", 
                            Buffer (0x04)
                            {
                                 0xAD, 0x11, 0x00, 0x00
                            }
                        })
                    }
[...]
               }

-> That's going to clash with your fitted Broadcom card... I'm even very surprised you actually managed to connect to a wifi network. If you looked in your SysProfiler, you would notice an Atheros 9285 wireless card reported in the Hardware->PCI section (that's just cosmetic but your DSDT injects the wrong device to OS X!).

 

I've modified Device (ARPT) with the following patch which should fix your issues:

              Device (ARPT)
              {
                    Name (_ADR, Zero)
[...]
                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                        {
                            Return (Buffer (One)
                            {
                                 0x03
                            })
                        }
                        Return (Package (0x0C)
                        {
                            "AAPL,slot-name", 
                            Buffer (0x08)
                            {
                                "AirPort"
                            }, 
                            "built-in", 
                            Buffer (One)
                            {
                                0x00
                            }, 
                            "device_type", 
                            Buffer (0x08)
                            {
                                "AirPort"
                            }, 
                            "name", 
                            Buffer (0x10)
                            {
                                "AirPort Extreme"
                            }, 
                            "model", 
                            Buffer (0x3A)
                            {
                                "AzureWave AW-NB290H 802.11 b/g/n Wireless Network Adapter"
                            }, 
                            "compatible",
                            Buffer (0x0D)
                            { 
                                "pci14e4,43a0"
                            }
                        })
                    }
[...]
               }

Try the following revised DSDT and report accordingly.

DSDT.aml.zip