llwijvbw123 / airportbrcmfixup

An open source kernel extension providing a set of patches required for non-native Airport Broadcom Wi-Fi cards.

AirportBrcmFixup

An open source kernel extension providing a set of patches required for non-native Airport Broadcom Wi-Fi cards.

Notes

This repository should be compiled with Lilu v1.2.4 or greater, otherwise the compilation will fail!

Note: Debug version of Lilu.kext should be put in the same folder as BrcmWLFixup! And they should be also used together!

Features

• Supports AirPort_Brcm4360, AirPort_BrcmNIC and AirPort_BrcmNIC_MFG
• Implements patch for chip identificator checking (0xaa52), in <=10.12 it's required for successful driver starting
• Implements patch for "Failed PCIe configuration patch", required for some cards
• Implements patch for "Third Party Device" (returns vendor name "Apple")
• Implements patch for removing of white-list check
• Implements 5Ghz and country code patch (US by default)
• Implements WOWL (WoWLAN) disabler (turned on by default) - no low speed after wake
• Implements patch to disable LPO panic in AirPortBrcmNIC

Installation types

• Clover Airport Fix + AirportBrcmFixup
• Clover Airport Fix + AddProperties(fake device-id) + AirportBrcmFixup (preferable)
• Clover Airport Fix + AirportBrcmFixup + FakePCIID + FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi.kext
• AirportBrcmFixup + FakePCIID + FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi.kext

Boot-args

• brcmfx-country=XX changes the country code to XX (US, CN, #a, ...)
• -brcmfxdbg turns on debugging output
• -brcmfxbeta enables loading on unsupported osx
• -brcmfxoff disables kext loading
• wl_msg_level=0xXXXX & wl_msg_level2=0xXXXX set log level for native network kexts
• -brcmfxwowl enables WOWL (WoWLAN) - it is disabled by default
• option brcmfx-country also can be injected via DSDT or AddProperties/Arbitrary in Clover

Credits

• Apple for macOS
• vit9696 for Lilu.kext and great help in implementing some features
• PMheart for the initial idea and implementation
• darkvoid & RehabMan for FakePCIID implementation (partly used in AirportBrcmFixup)
• al3xtjames for disabling LPO panic in AirPortBrcmNIC
• lvs1974 for writing the software and maintaining it