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macOS Catalina Patcher (http://dosdude1.com/catalina)
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patching with 10.15.7 killed my wifi #105

Open jhallstr opened 3 years ago

jhallstr commented 3 years ago

I have a Mid-2010 Macbook Pro which I've been patching since Mojave without issue. Recently I have had 10.15.6 patched on it and no problem connecting to my wifi. Yesterday I patched 10.15.7 on it and I could no longer connect to my home wifi network. I try to add the network, but when I select it it says "The network cannot be found". When I boot back into Mojave, I had not problem connecting with my wifi network. But back into 10.15.7, again it cannot connect. Help! I've tried reapplying patches with patch updater several times without any luck.

jhallstr commented 3 years ago

I have a Mid-2010 Macbook Pro which I've been patching since Mojave without issue. Recently I have had 10.15.6 patched on it and no problem connecting to my wifi. Yesterday I patched 10.15.7 on it and I could no longer connect to my home wifi network. I try to add the network, but when I select it it says "The network cannot be found". When I boot back into Mojave, I had not problem connecting with my wifi network. But back into 10.15.7, again it cannot connect. Help! I've tried reapplying patches with patch updater several times without any luck.

Okay, just to get my laptop back into useful shape, I decided to revert to 10.15.6. Unfortunately, I had overwritten that install app with the 10.15.7. So the hunt was on to get it from somewhere. Eventually, I found the best way was with this Catalina command: sudo softwareupdate -d --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15.6 except it doesn't work on my patched MBP because Apple checks the computer to see if it can find the update for that kind of computer. Fortunately, I have a Mini which is new enough to get the installer I need. So I did that and did a USB drive transfer to my MBP and ran the patcher with it and now I'm back to 10.15.6 and I have my WiFi back!

I will be monitoring to see if the 10.15.7 WiFi issue is solved before I attempt installing 10.15.7 again.

mooseknuckleking commented 3 years ago

I have the same issue. It looks like it's time to back up the computer completely and revert to 15.6 until it is resolved.

jhallstr commented 3 years ago

Lesson learned for me is to make sure you don't overwrite the installer for the last version that worked.

leandroreis commented 3 years ago

I have the same issue. It looks like it's time to back up the computer completely and revert to 15.6 until it is resolved.

How did you do to reverse? I have the same problem...

jhallstr commented 3 years ago

I just did another Catalina Patcher install, but selecting the 10.15.6 Catalina installer file. My trouble was noted above where I previously over-wrote that file with the 10.15.7 file. I wish they wouldn't name them all the same. You have to do the Info to see which one it is. So if you still have your 10.15.6 version of the "Install macOS Catalina" file, you are good to go following the regular Catalina Patcher process. If you don't have it, see my above comment on how to get it. As I said above, you need access to another computer which Apple supports for Catalina, and has Catalina on it already, to download the "Install macOS Catalina" file with that method. Without that I don't know how to get it without going to some sketchy download site. Good luck!

Khaliid1 commented 3 years ago

I have a Mid-2010 Macbook Pro which I've been patching since Mojave without issue. Recently I have had 10.15.6 patched on it and no problem connecting to my wifi. Yesterday I patched 10.15.7 on it and I could no longer connect to my home wifi network. I try to add the network, but when I select it it says "The network cannot be found". When I boot back into Mojave, I had not problem connecting with my wifi network. But back into 10.15.7, again it cannot connect. Help! I've tried reapplying patches with patch updater several times without any luck.

Same here. I think I'll try your fix going back to 10.15.6. This YouTube channel provide a link to Catalina 10.15.6 in the discerption https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwjUv8-uGE Thank you so much for the sharing!

jhallstr commented 3 years ago

After reading of a workaround to this issue on the macOS Catalina 10.15.7 WiFi Issue #131 thread, I went ahead and tried the 10.15.7 install via Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 and selected the download installer option to get the latest full install. To my surprise, my wifi worked without having to do the networksetup command described in Issue #131. I checked and the Catalina build I got was 19H2. Don't know what changed from previous builds, but happy its working. Recommend anyone else still having problems to give it another shot now.

jhallstr commented 3 years ago

Well, look what I found out on the inter-webs: https://betawiki.net/wiki/MacOS_Catalina_build_19H2 It explicitly says that build 19H2 fixed the Wifi issue with Catalina!

jele826 commented 3 years ago

I installed the latest Catalina patcher for 10.15.7 with build 19H2 on my 2009 MacBook5,2 and my wifi shows that it's on but is not connected to a network. There are no networks discovered. Any help?

jele826 commented 3 years ago

I installed the latest Catalina patcher for 10.15.7 with build 19H2 on my 2009 MacBook5,2 and my wifi shows that it's on but is not connected to a network. There are no networks discovered. Any help?

Trashing the following files and then restarting the Mac fixed both the WiFi and display brightness issues I was experiencing after the Catalina patcher. They are now working!!!

Path: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist com.apple.network.identification.plist preferences.plist preferences-pre-upgrade-source.plist NetworkInterfaces-pre-upgrade-source.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist preferences-pre-upgrade-new-target.plist NetworkInterfaces-pre-upgrade-new-target.plist com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist com.apple.network.eapolclient.configuration.plist

Thanks to HowToiSolve's YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp6BIu4ujlI