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RehabMan / OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM

Broadcom PatchRAM driver for OS X
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BCM20702 working under Mojave with a few extra steps... #57

Closed unixb0y closed 5 years ago

unixb0y commented 5 years ago

Hello, I wanted to explain how I got a USB dongle with BCM20702 working under Mojave. I tried putting the kext files in /L/E, didn't work so after reading a different issue (from today actually), I tried /S/L/E. While that didn't work at first, I then tried to refresh the kext cache; the files didn't show up in kextstat. I used this command: sudo kextcache -invalidate / which told me 2 error messages: BrcmFirmwareStore and BrcmPatchRAM2 had the wrong permissions. This is fixed like so:

sudo chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions/BrcmPatchRAM2.kext/ sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/BrcmPatchRAM2.kext/ sudo chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions/BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext/ sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext/

Reboot and be happy! 😄 Both the actual Bluetooth entry in System Preferences, that was missing before as well as an entry in System Report > Bluetooth finally appeared! I have a TP-Link Archer T9E WiFi card and now in conjunction, AirDrop does work like a charm 👍

RehabMan commented 5 years ago

All hack/non-Apple kexts go to /L/E, not /S/L/E. But you must install them correctly. There are procedures in my laptop FAQ: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capitan-laptop-support/164990-faq-read-first-laptop-frequent-questions.html

unixb0y commented 5 years ago

It's not a laptop... :D

EDIT: With the right permissions, it also works in /L/E 😊 Even if you copy from the command line, like you suggested, in some scenarios - depending on "how" the user downloads the kext files, the permissions won't be set to "root" which is the cause of the issue that I had.