r/hackintosh • u/Olive-Zealousideal • 1d ago
SUCCESS Sequoia Success after 9 years break
After I took 9 years break from hackintoshing in general I diceded to try it again. (I am going to admit a lot has changed and I was a bit rusty).
What works:
- basically everything
- sleep
- iCloud services, iMessage
Broken:
- WiFi ? (I mean bluetooth works, airdrop works, all handoffs works, wifi does see all the networks around me but for the love of god it refuses to connect to any of them - wifi extension exited error) I think this must be a related hardware issue as the same happens in windows for whatever reason.. Thats what i get for trying to save myself few weeks of shipping and ordering from a random local guy..
PC specs:
Intel Core i5 14400F
Chipset: B760M
AsRock RX6600
WiFi: BCM943602
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u/themacmeister1967 1d ago
bcm943602 is fixed on Sequoia...
Search for Broadcom Sequoia... you need to inject a kext at startup (SkyWalker?) and force stop another from loading. This is super-easy, and you can set it only to load the Broadcom fix and kexts only on certain minimum kernel versions (allowing multi-boot between versions of macOS).
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u/themacmeister1967 1d ago
I can't find the exact guide I used before, but here is a YouTube video that covers the same territory.
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u/Olive-Zealousideal 1d ago
I did do that. Before the macOS ignored the adapter all together. Now it sees it, recognizes it and I am even able to discover all the wifi networks around me including my personal hotspot. But when I try to connect to any one of those it just crashes the settings app and if I do it from the top bar it prompts me with password request infinetly or say that the network couldnt be connected to..
But I really believe it's something to do with hardware itself as when I try to use the adapter in Windows the behaviour is very similar. I am able to see all the networks but if I try to connect to any one of these it just says "Could connect to this network". Hell I am even able to create hotspot with this adapter that can be discovered by other devices. But if I try to connect to it with my phone or laptop it fails.
I am really stumped on this one. Never ever have I seen a behaviour like this before. And what stumps me even more is that the airdrop feature which (atleast to my understanding) utilizes wifi is working without a hitch. (sometimes it takes a while to find the device tho..)
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u/themacmeister1967 1d ago
May have wrong country code set?
I had to manually set mine, and I also use AirportBrcmFixUp.kext and I also use IO80211FamilyLegacy.kext and IOSkywalkFamily.kext
<key>Block</key> <array> <dict> <key>Arch</key> <string>Any</string> <key>Comment</key> <string>Allow IOSkywalk Downgrade</string> <key>Enabled</key> <true/> <key>Identifier</key> <string>com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily</string> <key>MaxKernel</key> <string></string> <key>MinKernel</key> <string>23.0.0</string> <key>Strategy</key> <string>Exclude</string> </dict> </array>I also use in boot flags (nvram) -> -brcmfxbeta brcmfx-country=AU
Obviously, your code would be your two letter country code...
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u/Olive-Zealousideal 1d ago
It just seams to me like the authentication process is failing for whathever reason every time. But I have no clue why.
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u/themacmeister1967 1d ago
If you have a 2.4GHz receiver (XBox360/Keyboard/Mouse/dongle) near your antennae, it may interfere severely with WiFi.
I used to plug my Unifying Receiver from Logitech into FRONT USB ports to avoid severe interference. Have not had issues with BT/WiFi since doing this.
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u/Olive-Zealousideal 1d ago
I dont have anything like that near me. Either way. All of a sudden i am able to connect to my own hotspot from iphone but still no luck with other APs. I think it just cant process a network with password protection.
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u/themacmeister1967 1d ago
I am using WPA2-PSK for network authentication... no issues.
Doesn't work on Mixed WPA2/PSK
I also changed from the default password (which was 16 alphanumeric characters, uppercase and lowercase) to an 8 Character password - all caps with one digit.
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u/void_const 1d ago
You shouldn’t use Chrome
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u/Olive-Zealousideal 1d ago
I like it. IS there specific reason?
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u/Teobsn 1d ago
I think "shouldn't" is a bold word here. Use what you want, but keep in mind:
Chrome is not that fast on macOS. It also (since recently, look up "Manifest v3") does not support certain extensions, like uBlock Origin.
Although irrelevant here, for laptops, it also seems to use more power than other browsers (considerably more than Firefox, and especially a lot more than Safari, for example).
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