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Intel NUC Hades Canyon Hackintosh support
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SUGGESTION: incorporate stable release of OpenIntelWireless itlwm(x) and IntelBluetooth #322

Closed Malumen closed 4 years ago

Malumen commented 4 years ago

Hi @osy86 !

This recent iteration (2.11) has been great. Everything is running smoothly in my macOS 1.14.6 Mojave setup.

Was wondering if the installer can roll-in OpenIntelWireless project's itlwm(x) (along with adding in release 1.1.2 of IntelBluetoothFirmware). Note that if the user installs either itlwm or itlwmx, then it should also install HeliPort for easy WiFi control by the user.

It would be an "exclusive OR" checkmark, as users cannot use both itlwm and itlwmx at the same time. The default for the original WiFi m.2 that comes with the Intel Hades Canyon NUC should be itlwm.

Note: these kexts provide WiFi speeds for 5GHz best, and max out around 80 megabit download and 20 megabit upload. This is "good enough" for average internet use.

keatliang2005 commented 4 years ago

@Malumen Great suggestion +1 for this

i would like to see this as an option for the HaC-Mini release, as i still using stock intel wireless

osy commented 4 years ago

Is there any point making itlwmx an option if itlwm works for the stock card?

Malumen commented 4 years ago

Is there any point making itlwmx an option if itlwm works for the stock card?

I swapped out the Hades Canyon native WiFi into my gf's laptop (she had a dead Killer chip) and bought myself the AX200 for 10$ off a mass supplier... In Windows, WiFi 6 support and BT 5.0 are great, so far the connection and clarity and range in macOS has been incredible (really good range and connection so far on everything, may even be better than Windows).

Malumen commented 4 years ago

@osy86

FYI the OpenIntelWireless project has merged the itlwm and itlwmx versions into one unified solution. It now requires the additional software "HeliPort" but now you wouldn't need to split the installer versions, just 1 option.

https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/itlwm/releases/tag/v1.1.0

osy commented 4 years ago

@Malumen Is it better to include itlwm or AirportItlwm? Seems like AirportItlwm doesn't require HeliPort

Malumen commented 4 years ago

@Malumen Is it better to include itlwm or AirportItlwm? Seems like AirportItlwm doesn't require HeliPort

if I understand correctly, AirportItlwm requires users to write in their SSID and password info into the kext itself rather than itlwm and Heliport which allows the user to connect/switch using the App/GUI.

@osy86 looks like AirportItlwm is very much still unstable and in-Beta; the makers still recommend using itlwm and HeliPort when possible (the latest stable versions are itlwm v1.1.0 and HeliPort v1.0.1 it looks like.

keatliang2005 commented 4 years ago

current latest master commit from itlwm, already support WPA2, unfortunately not yet build into release yet