- Joined
- Jan 21, 2018
- macOS
- Mobo
- Gigabyte Z370N WIFI
- CPU
- i3-8100
- GPU
- UHD 630 Graphics
The Broadcom WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n cards are the go to cards if you need If you need Wifi and Bluetooth and want to swap out an existing Wifi card on your desktop/laptop as they are not as expensive as the dedicated PCIE cards, which are usually $100+ USD and they are quite easy to get working in High Sierra as all you have to do is drop a copy kexts in the right location and restart your hackintosh.
These are my preferred & proven Wifi Cards for hackintoshing:
BCM94352Z - Full Size WLAN
The BCM94352Z is a full sized WLAN card, which is what you want if you have one of the newer desktop motherboards that come with an integrated wifi card + WLAN slot as they are the same size. Since the included Intel WLAN card doesn't work the BCM94352Z is a good drop in replacement.
There are two models of the BCM94352Z a Dell (DW1560) and a Lenovo (04X6020). The Lenovo version works just as well as the Dell one and is cheaper. However if you plan to plug this in to a M.2 slot, because you don't have a WLAN slot available on your motherboard you need the DELL DW1560 as M.2 only fits A+E Key sized cards. Also if you bought a motherboard without an antenna you will need to buy an Antenna Kit
DELL DW1560
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0156DVQ7G/
LENOVO 04X6020
Broadcom BCM94352Z NGFF Dual Band 802.11ac 867M Wifi BT 4.0 Lenovo FRU 04X6020 | eBay
BCM94322 - Half Size WLAN
Some laptops can only fit a half sized WLAN card and therefore I would recommend the BCM94322 if you have a laptop hackintosh that can't fit a full sized WLAN card like the BCM94352Z. There is a Dell version of the BCM94322 called the DW1510
Dell DW1510
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LP52BNI/
Steps
Note: For Ryzen user's I nor anyone that I'm aware of has gotten bluetooth to work so far with Broadcom WLAN cards, with Intel it's no problem.
Some may have issues putting these kexts in the Other folder where the Kexts wont always work or maybe Wifi is working, but bluetooth isn't. With Clover some kexts can fail to properly initiate so you can try migrating BrcmPatchRAM to /Library/Extensions:
These are my preferred & proven Wifi Cards for hackintoshing:
BCM94352Z - Full Size WLAN
The BCM94352Z is a full sized WLAN card, which is what you want if you have one of the newer desktop motherboards that come with an integrated wifi card + WLAN slot as they are the same size. Since the included Intel WLAN card doesn't work the BCM94352Z is a good drop in replacement.
There are two models of the BCM94352Z a Dell (DW1560) and a Lenovo (04X6020). The Lenovo version works just as well as the Dell one and is cheaper. However if you plan to plug this in to a M.2 slot, because you don't have a WLAN slot available on your motherboard you need the DELL DW1560 as M.2 only fits A+E Key sized cards. Also if you bought a motherboard without an antenna you will need to buy an Antenna Kit
DELL DW1560
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0156DVQ7G/
LENOVO 04X6020
Broadcom BCM94352Z NGFF Dual Band 802.11ac 867M Wifi BT 4.0 Lenovo FRU 04X6020 | eBay
BCM94322 - Half Size WLAN
Some laptops can only fit a half sized WLAN card and therefore I would recommend the BCM94322 if you have a laptop hackintosh that can't fit a full sized WLAN card like the BCM94352Z. There is a Dell version of the BCM94322 called the DW1510
Dell DW1510
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LP52BNI/
Steps
Note: For Ryzen user's I nor anyone that I'm aware of has gotten bluetooth to work so far with Broadcom WLAN cards, with Intel it's no problem.
- Mount EFI partition
- Download the most recent version of RehabMan's OS-X-Fake-PCI-ID
- Unzip the OS-X-Fake-PCI-ID folder
- Open OS-X-Fake-PCI-ID folder
- Open Release folder
- Copy these kexts:
- FakePCIID.kext
- FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi.kext
- Paste these kexts in EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Download the most recent version of RehabMan's OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM
- Unzip the RehabMan-BrcmPatchRAM folder
- Open RehabMan-BrcmPatchRAM folder
- Open Release folder
- Copy these kexts:
- BrcmFirmwareData.kext
- BrcmPatchRAM2.kext
- BrcmNonPatchRAM2.kext
- Paste these kexts in EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Restart Hackintosh
Some may have issues putting these kexts in the Other folder where the Kexts wont always work or maybe Wifi is working, but bluetooth isn't. With Clover some kexts can fail to properly initiate so you can try migrating BrcmPatchRAM to /Library/Extensions:
- Move BrcmPatchRAM2.kext & BrcmNonPatchRAM2.kext to /Library/Extensions
- Delete BrcmFirewareData.kext from EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Copy BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext from Release folder
- Paste BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext in /Library/Extensions
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