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Hello everyone, Little background information about firmware patch from linux: I've developed this kext to update the firmware needed for those Atheros AR3012 and Broadcom Bluetooth devices to work with all functionalities that hardware supposed to do. Also integrated support for the Atheros bluetooth AR3011 (from old kext by mac4mat) with some improvements/fixes in my kext to make a single solution for bluetooth. BUG REPORT (HAVE A PROBLEM?): Send me your system log file from /var/log, ioreg file saved using IORegistryExplorer app v2.1 and Sys info saved from the app System Information (found in Utilities) in File menu. To receive files from other bluetooth devices (like Mobiles), enable the option "Bluetooth Sharing" in System Preferences->Sharing. Want to know why you can't pair iPhone? Read here Your Combo card WiFi hardware is detected and working, but Bluetooth hardware was not detected in ioreg and not working ? Read this post (Credits: tomwho) Following are the Bluetooth cards supported by my kext: AR3011: Atheros AR5B195 Combo (AR9285 Wifi + AR3011 Bluetooth) Atheros AR5B197 Combo (AR9287 Wifi + AR3011 Bluetooth) Other Atheros AR3011 cards with ids list below AR3012: Atheros WB225 Combo (AR9485 Wifi(doesn't work) + AR3012 Bluetooth) Other Atheros AR3012 cards with ids list below Atheros AR3011 30 sec delay fix (or) after sleep issues patch: (Should be working in 10.9.1+) Enter the following two commands in terminal and reboot: sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x0F\x85\x07\x01|\x0F\x84\x07\x01|g' /System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/ For Clover, add this to kext patches instead: Name: IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport Find: 0F850701 Replace: 0F840701 Comment: Fix Bluetooth 30 seconds delay patch Credits to TimeWalker for the patch idea. NOTE: BCM4352 WiFi 5Ghz access is now working (Credit goes to SKVO fromapplife.ru. For complete details on making this WiFI card work, follow this thread: BCM4352 WiFi BROADCOM WiFi/BT Combo cards Bluetooth: Broadcom BCM4352 Combo Broadcom BCM4360 Combo Broadcom BCM43162 Combo Broadcom BCM4313 Combo (Not all cards need Update) BROADCOM USB/Integrated Bluetooth: Asus BT-400 USB Bluetooth Belkin 20702 USB Bluetooth USB Dongles with 20702A1 Bluetooth (Delock, IOGear etc.,) HP BRCM1043 Integrated Bluetooth (found in HP Elite Notebooks) Supported Bluetooth Vendor and Product ID: (Few device ids below work only from v2.8) Broadcom: VID: 13d3 PID: 3404 (Azurewave 4352) VID: 13d3 PID: 3413 (Azurewave 4360) VID: 13d3 PID: 3418 (Azurewave 4352) VID: 13d3 PID: 3435 (Azurewave 4352) VID: 13d3 PID: 3456 (Azurewave 4352) VID: 0b05 PID: 17cb (Asus USB) VID: 0b05 PID: 17cf (Asus 4352) VID: 0b05 PID: 180a (Asus 4360) VID: 050d PID: 065a (Belkin) VID: 13d3 PID: 3411 (Dell Alienware 4352) VID: 413c PID: 8143 (Dell DW1550 4352) VID: 0a5c PID: 216f (Dell DW1560 4352 NGFF) VID: 0a5c PID: 21e1 (HP Elite NB) VID: 0a5c PID: 21fb (HP 4352) VID: 0a5c PID: 216b (HP 4352 NGFF) VID: 0a5c PID: 216e (HP BCM43162 NGFF) VID: 0a5c PID: 21fd (Generic 4352) VID: 0a5c PID: 21de (4352) VID: 0a5c PID: 22be (4352/4360) VID: 04ca PID: 200a (LiteOn 4352) VID: 04ca PID: 200b (LiteOn 4352) VID: 04ca PID: 200c (LiteOn 4352) VID: 04ca PID: 200f (LiteOn 4352) VID: 0a5c PID: 21e6 (ThinkPad NB) VID: 0489 PID: e079 (Lenovo BCM43162 NGFF) VID: 0489 PID: e07a (Lenovo NGFF) VID: 0930 PID: 0223 (Toshiba NGFF) VID: 0930 PID: 0221 (Toshiba) VID: 0a5c PID: 21e8 (Dongles Delock, IOGear etc.,) VID: 0489 PID: e032 (BCM4313) AR3011: VID: 03f0 PID: 311d VID: 0489 PID: e027 VID: 0489 PID: e02c VID: 0489 PID: e03d VID: 0930 PID: 0215 VID: 0b05 PID: 179c VID: 0cf3 PID: 3000 VID: 0cf3 PID: 3002 VID: 0cf3 PID: 3005 VID: 13d3 PID: 3304 VID: 04f2 PID: aff1 VID: 04ca PID: 3002 AR3012: VID: 0489 PID: e056 VID: 0489 PID: e036 VID: 0489 PID: e03c VID: 0489 PID: e078 VID: 04ca PID: 3005 VID: 04ca PID: 3006 VID: 0cf3 PID: 311d VID: 0cf3 PID: 0036 VID: 0cf3 PID: 3004 VID: 0cf3 PID: 3010 VID: 0cf3 PID: e004 VID: 13d3 PID: 3362 VID: 13d3 PID: 3402 VID: 13d3 PID: 3474 VID: 0b05 PID: 17d0 Kext Customization: You can customize the kext for choosing firmware by editing the file "info.plist" located inside my kext "BTFirmwareUploader.kext/Contents/". Go to the section "IOKitPersonalities" and edit the entry which has your vendor and device id values. Atheros AR3011 and AR3012 BT: You can choose firmware from either linux (or) windows. (Linux firmware is recommended mostly) For Linux firmware, edit the plist entry "Use Linux fw" to Yes (or) true. ) For the Windows firmware, edit the plist entry "Use Linux fw" to No (or) false for both AR3011 & AR3012. For AR3011, you can also choose three firmwares from windows by editing the plist entry "Windows fw" to the values 0-2. Value '0' is the most recent firmware. [Note: Only Windows firmware 1 supports Fn key toggle for BT Off/on in Asus] Broadcom BT: Firmware to use: You can choose either firmware which is meant for that specific device (or) higher version available so far by editing the plist entry "DeviceSpecificFw" to Yes/No (or) true/false. You can abort (or) ignore subsequent firmware updates if the last update was failed by editing the plist entry "AbortOnFwUpdFail" to Yes/No (or) true/false. This is optional and its meant only in case if any system needed update process to continue even if last update was failed for success.(Available from v3.0.5) How to install: 1) Remove any patched kexts (or) Bluetooth enablers installed for Bluetooth and use Apple vanilla Bluetooth kext. 2) Install my kext (BTFirmwareUploader.kext) using your favorite kext installers to /System/Library/Extensions. (Don't install my kext through E/E (or) clover injection). Supports: ​Atheros BT is supported from 10.6.8 or later Broadcom BT is supported from 10.8.5 or later NOTE for 10.11: If you have any problems with my kext firmware update for Broadcom BT in 10.11 then use only "BluetoothDevBroadcomInjector.kext" instead which is just an injector to load Apple BT driver. Change Log: Update: v3.1 5 Released (Legacy version is for 10.10 or lower) Added support for new device ​Supports for 10.6.8 ​Fixed legacy version which was not working Some Minor bug fixes and optimizations Update: v3.1 (Legacy version is for 10.10 or lower) Updated non-device specific firmware version to latest available Added support new devices (check the updated list) Improved 10.11 support Some Minor bug fixes and optimizations Update: v3.0.5 Released Fixed a major bug affecting Atheros Bluetooth Improved 10.11 support Added a plist option for Broadcom Bluetooth to abort update process on fail (Optional) Some Minor bug fixes and optimizations Update: v3.0 Updated support for 10.11 using new SDK and USB API (you have to use kext compiled for 10.11) Made several Improvements and optimizations Fixed some minor bugs Update: v2.8.7 Added OS X detection to prevent/solve issues in 10.11 Fixed some bugs and made few improvements Update: v2.8.5 Fixed a major bug affecting some asus systems with KP Fixed issues related to firmware not getting updated sometimes Fixed some bugs in Atheros firmware update Added few new Atheros AR3012 bluetooth device ids to supported list Some improvements and code optimizations Update: v2.8 Updated firmware for some devices and higher version option Added support for some new devices Improvements to upload process time which finishes quicker now as i've reduced the time needed by doing more beta tests so works better Some minor bug fixes and optimizations Update: v2.7 Updated firmware for some devices and higher version option Added support for some new devices Fixes a bug when dual booting from windows which breaks BT Fixed a bug in BluetoothDevInfo kext injection and renamed the kext name Removed unnecessary "UpdAfterSleep" option from plist Some minor bug fixes and optimizations Update: v2.6 Added support for new Broadcom bluetooth devices Added support for new Atheros bluetooth devices Updated kext to use firmware specific to the Broadcom BT devices Removed unnecessary patch for HP BT (PID:21e3) Fixed some bugs Optimized code Update: v2.5.2 Final Added support for two Broadcom bluetooth devices from HP(VID: 0a5c PID: 21e3/PID: 21e1) Fixed a minor bug in BluetoothDevInfo kext Update: v2.5 Final Added plist option "UseStandaloneFw" to choose standalone firmware meant for BT only cards like Asus BT-400. Added support for two new BCM4352 BT (Dell alienware BCM4352 combo) Fixed device reset error bugs Some minor bug fixes and optimizations Update: v2.4 ​Added support for two new AR3011 BT(VID: 0489 PID: e02c and VID: 0930 PID: 0215) Added support for two new BCM4352 BT (HP and NGFF Toshiba) Added support for new AR3012 BT (VID: 0cf3 PID: 311d) Minor optimizations Update: v2.3 Improved performance of upload ​Fixed issues related to BCM Fixed issues related to firmware update after sleep Updated Broadcom firmware to new version Added LiteOn BCM4352 and an AR3011(PID: e027) card Moved bluetooth info to a plugin kext located inside the PlugIns folder Optimized code Update: v2.1 Added fully working support for AR3012 Updated new firmware in Broadcom Added Dell DW 1550 BCM 94352HMB card and AR3012 card ID's Fixed an issue with AR3011 bluetooth Optimized code Update: v2beta Added experimental support for AR3012(still in testing phase) Added firmware option for Broadcom and updated to new firmware Added new firmware for Atheros Added Asus BCM4352 card support Fixed an issue with AR3011 bluetooth which is failing for some cards like (dev:0x3000 & 0x179c) Apple bluetooth kext patch is not needed for Broadcom bluetooth anymore Update: v1.5 Added more Atheros Bluetooth devices (VEN:0cf3, DEV:3000,3002,3005) Fixed an issue with Atheros AR3011 Bluetooth after sleep Fixed an issue with Broadcom Bluetooth which prevented successful system boot without -v flag First release: v1.3 Enables Bluetooth in the new ac Broadcom BCM4352 card Added support for AR3011 from old kext(credits: mac4mat) Fixes an issue for AR3011 with the old uploader kext which is breaking during reboots in Asus Notebooks Added options to choose firmware for Atheros Bluetooth in the plist For any support, PM me in forums. Note: Don't mirror my kext please, just provide the link for my post. Credits: Leon for providing the opportunity & testing the kext, donators who helped to get me a card for the development, mac4mat (tonycrapx) for the AR3011 source and laloch(archlinux) for the ideas of Broadcom card PS: I've worked very hard in this and need your support , so I request you to consider a small donation if possible which helps me and allows to spend more time on this for future updates. Paypal: Thanks for the support. BTFirmwareUploader_v2.7_Final.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v2.8_Final.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v2.8.5_Final.zip BTFirmwareUploade_v2.8.7.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v3.0_Final.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v3.0_Final_10.11.zip BluetoothDevBroadcomInjector.kext.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v3.0.5.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v3.0.5_10.11.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v3.1_Legacy.zip BTFirmwareUploader_v3.1.zip BTFirmwareUploader_3.1.5_10.11.zip BTFirmwareUploader_3.1.5_Legacy.zip

Broadwell is supported from Yosemite (forgot which version) up to the latest Mojave. You'll need to replace the Intel wireless card of course since it's not supported with a DW1560 or a USB device. Your system's specs: Inspiron 3558, supported devices: i3-5005U HD 5500 Synaptics touchpad ALC255 Webcam