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Anyone using AzureWave AW-CEH123H/ BCM943225HMB and not able to see the hardware in the System Info; it could be the whitelist in the BIOS. I had the issue using this one with HP Pavilion N15-204TX where the Wifi worked out of the box in Windows 8.1 and OS X 10.9.5 dual boot mode but could not detect the Bluetooth device in both. The solution is to defeat the while list disabling in BIOS by

 

-  Taping Pin 51 on the AW-CEH123H if  Bluetooth is whitelisted 

-  Taping Pin 20 if Wi-Fi is whitelisted

 

then use the plain vanilla Apple BT drivers applying the BT Firmware upload kext here  and the 5Ghz unlock patch. Rebooting the machine and Wifi (2.4 Ghz/5Hhz with Airdrop and Wake-on-lan) as well as Bluetooth works fine now. Thanks to  various members contributing here.

 

Here relevant System Info from my OS X 10.9.5 . 

Bluetooth:

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       Chipset:[/size] [/size]20702A3[/size]

 

  Firmware Version: v14 c5270

  Bluetooth Power: On

  Discoverable: On

  Connectable: Yes

  Auto Seek Keyboard: On

  Auto Seek Pointing: On

  Remote wake: On

  Vendor ID: 0x13D3

  Product ID: 0x3404

  HCI Version: 0x6

  HCI Revision: 0x1496

  LMP Version: 0x6

  LMP Subversion: 0x220E

  Device Type (Major): Computer

  Device Type (Complete): Mac Portable

  Composite Class Of Device: 0x38010C

  Device Class (Major): 0x01

  Device Class (Minor): 0x03

  Service Class: 0x1C0

 

Bluetooth can also be enabled/disabled from the OS

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Wi-Fi

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Software Versions:[/size]

  CoreWLAN: 4.3.3 (433.48)

  CoreWLANKit: 3.3.2 (332.36)

  Menu Extra: 9.3.2 (932.35)

  System Information: 9.0 (900.8)

  IO80211 Family: 6.4 (640.36)

  Diagnostics: 3.0 (300.40)

  AirPort Utility: 6.3.2 (632.3)

  Interfaces:

en1:

  Card Type: AirPort Extreme  (0x14E4, 0x2123)

  Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (6.30.223.154.65)

    Locale: FCC

  Country Code: US

  Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

  Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 132, 136, 140, 144, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165

  Wake On Wireless: Supported

  AirDrop: Supported

  Status: Connected

 

 

Hope this confirmation helps here someone  like me ( who struggled with it for a month ) and tried in vain to find a ROM BIOS whitelist hack without any success.

Someone asked what does taping a pin here means. Below is the verbose :

Basically, you take an electrical insulation adhesive tape. Using a scissor cutout a thin rectangular slice of this tape with a dimension slightly larger than the pin so that it will just fully cover this one pin on the combo card. Stick it on this pin #. Slide the card back into the PCI slot and you are good to go. So taping means just electrically insulating this specific pin# to make contact with its PCI female connector.

Anyone using AzureWave AW-CEH123H/ BCM943225HMB and not able to see the hardware in the System Info; it could be the whitelist in the BIOS. I had the issue using this one with HP Pavilion N15-204TX where the Wifi worked out of the box in Windows 8.1 and OS X 10.9.5 dual boot mode but could not detect the Bluetooth device in both. The solution is to defeat the while list disabling in BIOS by

-  Taping Pin 51 on the AW-CEH123H if  Bluetooth is whitelisted 

-  Taping Pin 20 if Wi-Fi is whitelisted

then use the plain vanilla Apple BT drivers applying the BT Firmware upload kext here  and the 5Ghz unlock patch. Rebooting the machine and Wifi (2.4 Ghz/5Hhz with Airdrop and Wake-on-lan) as well as Bluetooth works fine now. Thanks to  various members contributing here.

Here relevant System Info from my OS X 10.9.5 . 

Bluetooth:

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       Chipset: 20702A3

  Firmware Version: v14 c5270

  Bluetooth Power: On

  Discoverable: On

  Connectable: Yes

  Auto Seek Keyboard: On

  Auto Seek Pointing: On

  Remote wake: On

  Vendor ID: 0x13D3

  Product ID: 0x3404

  HCI Version: 0x6

  HCI Revision: 0x1496

  LMP Version: 0x6

  LMP Subversion: 0x220E

  Device Type (Major): Computer

  Device Type (Complete): Mac Portable

  Composite Class Of Device: 0x38010C

  Device Class (Major): 0x01

  Device Class (Minor): 0x03

  Service Class: 0x1C0

  CoreWLAN: 4.3.3 (433.48)

  CoreWLANKit: 3.3.2 (332.36)

  Menu Extra: 9.3.2 (932.35)

  System Information: 9.0 (900.8)

  IO80211 Family: 6.4 (640.36)

  Diagnostics: 3.0 (300.40)

  AirPort Utility: 6.3.2 (632.3)

  Interfaces:

en1:

  Card Type: AirPort Extreme  (0x14E4, 0x2123)

  Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (6.30.223.154.65)

    Locale: FCC

  Country Code: US

  Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

  Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 132, 136, 140, 144, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165

  Wake On Wireless: Supported

  AirDrop: Supported

  Status: Connected