BCM943602BAED Wi-Fi/BT not working on Monterey.

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marcin397 · February 13, 2024

Hi!
My laptop spec:
Acer Aspire 5 VN7-591G
I5 4210H
16 GB RAM
GTX860m
120GB Mac
250GB Win
Dual Boot
BT/Wi-Fi Qualcomm swap to BCM943602BAED
MacOs 12 Monterey OpenCore

My problem is that I can't get 943602 running on Hackintosh. I started with:
AirportBrcmFixup
BrcmFirmwareData
BrcmPatchRAM3
BlueToolFixup.

Even after installing these kexts, WiFi and Bluetooth still don't work. I tried changing the order in OpenCore, but with no success.

Currently installed kexts:
Lilu
AirportBrcmFixup
AirportBrcm4360_injector
AirportBrcmNIC_injector
BrcmFirmwareData
BrcmPatchRAM3
BlueToolFixup
BcrmBluetoothinjector
BcrmBluetoothinjectorLegacy

Hackintool detects the network card in PCIe. I see BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC.
From the beginning, I also have USBInjectAll installed.

Actually my EFI included in it are:

AppleALC.kext
Lilu.kext
RealtekRTL8111.kext
USBInjectAll.kext
VirtualSMC.kext
VoodooPS2Controller.kext
WhateverGreen.kext

config.zip

Edited February 13, 2024 by marcin397

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