MP 1,1-5,1 802.11ac, BT 4.0, Continuity, and Handoff Working on Mac Pro 2010

[MeLlamanHokage]

Did you get all 4 antennas replugged including the bluetooth via the extension cable?

It sounds possible you've got a bad broadcom card & I'd be approaching the vendor for a replacement or refund. Before then though I'd strip everything out. Broadcom chip, adaptor board, BT extension and the BT USB cable. Then I'd boot the machine to see that there is nothing listed under WiFi or Bluetooth. Then I'd re-do the installation paying particular attention to the seating of the adaptor card in the backplane and the seating of the broadcom chip in the adaptor card. Maybe don't fix these cards too tightly with screws but just let them sit 'naturally' in the slots to make sure you've got a sound connection.

Good luck!

Thank you!
I ended up going with a different card and things are going swimmingly now!

 

[rorydaredking]

This is what I have after following the install guide step by step
Wifi isn't displaying and Bluetooth says it's on but doesn't seem to work either
I unplugged the power from the card and there's been no change in the bluetooth specs
View attachment 1765423 View attachment 1765424

I’ve got the reverse. Airport working well and recognised as AC, but Bluetooth not showing up.
I do get a usb device of BCM20702 which seems to be the correct chip for BT but nothing in the actual Bluetooth ‘tab’ of system profiler

have ordered another card to test.

 

[artysan]

Anyone know what these little gold crimped antenna connector plugs are called and if they are available to buy?

On antenna wire 3 the plug somehow got crushed and wouldn‘t connect to the wifi card and it’s come off the wire, so need to solder/crimp a new one on.

Those are type UMCC connectors.

 

[trifero]

Those are type UMCC connectors.

There are adapters, by the way.

 

[wladkolc]

Hi all, please is there any native supported wifi card with bluetooth to support new Monterey without any kexts? Planning to buy new wifi, but 94360CD is supported with kexts only, i am affraid that next macOS will drop any support to this card. Thanks

 

[trifero]

All th

Hi all, please is there any native supported wifi card with bluetooth to support new Monterey without any kexts? Planning to buy new wifi, but 94360CD is supported with kexts only, i am affraid that next macOS will drop any support to this card. Thanks

All the ones that support Catalina.

 

[wladkolc]

Dont know about any newer than 94360CD. Is there any?

 

[Tapper]

If you run macOS 10.14+​

Restart Mac Pro

Hold down Command-R to reboot into Recovery Mode.

Click Utilities.

Select Terminal

Type

csrutil disable

Press Return or Enter on your keyboard.

Restart Mac Pro

Open Terminal and run this:

sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set:Mac-F221BEC8:ContinuitySupport true" "/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist"

sudo -E perl -pi -e "s/\Mac-00BE6ED71E35EB86/\Mac-F221BEC8\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0/" /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4360.kext/Contents/MacOS/AirPortBrcm4360

Now you only need to delete the kext cache:

Enter this in Terminal:

cd /System/Library/Extensions/

sudo touch .

Restart Mac Pro

Hold down Command-R to reboot into Recovery Mode.

Click Utilities.

Select Terminal.

Type csrutil enable

Press Return or Enter on your keyboard.

Restart Mac Pro

If you run macOS 10.15+​

Restart Mac Pro

Hold down Command-R to reboot into Recovery Mode.

Click Utilities.

Select Terminal.

Type

csrutil disable

Press Return or Enter on your keyboard.

Restart Mac Pro

Open Terminal and run this:

sudo mount -uw /

sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set:Mac-F221BEC8:ContinuitySupport true" "/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist"

sudo -E perl -pi -e "s/\Mac-00BE6ED71E35EB86/\Mac-F221BEC8\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0/" /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4360.kext/Contents/MacOS/AirPortBrcm4360

Now you only need to delete the kext cache:

Enter this in Terminal:

cd /System/Library/Extensions/

sudo touch .

Restart Mac Pro

Hold down Command-R to reboot into Recovery Mode.

Click Utilities.

Select Terminal.

Type

csrutil enable

Press Return or Enter on your keyboard.

Restart Mac Pro

if it still does not work please log out of your iCloud accounts on all devices, reboot all devices and sign in to iCloud again.

Did everybody type the code into Terminal or is there a way to cut/paste it when booted in Recovery Mode?

 

[trifero]

Did everybody type the code into Terminal or is there a way to cut/paste it when booted in Recovery Mode?

Always in terminal. Anyway, since I moved to OpenCore, and wifi/bluetooth module updated, works like charm without any further modifications. Never get to make it work with patched Catalina.

 

[Tapper]

Always in terminal. Anyway, since I moved to OpenCore, and wifi/bluetooth module updated, works like charm without any further modifications. Never get to make it work with patched Catalina.

Yes, I know it needs to be inputted into Terminal, but the question is whether typing is the only input method or is there a way to copy/paste into Terminal without having to type all the code.

 

[sfalatko]

Yes, I know it needs to be inputted into Terminal, but the question is whether typing is the only input method or is there a way to copy/paste into Terminal without having to type all the code

There's no way I know of to copy and paste into recovery mode terminal. I've always just carefully typed in the commands.

EDIT - strike that previous sentence as I slipped a bit - to do the edits you disable SIP in recovery mode, reboot into macOS and then use terminal to enter the commands. Copy and paste works fine. Then re-enter recovery mode and re-emable SIP.

 

[KeesMacPro]

@Tapper : The common way for me (same as post #1558) is to disable SIP in Recovery mode and restart.

After the restart you can copy/paste in Terminal without problems .

Once finished , enable SIP again in recovery mode.

 

[mateuszd]

Hey guys, I'm just preparing to upgrade the WiFi adapter in my 5,1 (xserve) however I found that my existing WiFi card only has 2 antennas and the BCM94360CD I ordered has 3 antennas + 1BT.
I'm kinda surprised, all tutorials I've seen so far show 3 antennas. Why is mine different?
The question is, is it ok to just leave out 1 antenna or should I get some other adapter that has 2x2 MIMO and 1 BT antenna?
I was looking at the BCM94360CS but this one seems to have a different size antenna connectors and it seems to share one for BT and WiFi.
I won't really be using WiFi anyway, I'm upgrading for BT and Handoff.

 

[trifero]

I don´t know schematics in a Xserver, but Mac Pro 5,1 has 3 antennas cables. For the bluetooth, I use an extender in the original bluetooth cable to the J3 antenna port.

 

[mateuszd]

Omg you're right. I did see 3 antenna cables but I thought the 3rd one was for BT as I thought it was going behind the motherboard. Didn't notice it was just conveniently sitting behind old WiFi card.
Cool, I'm awaiting the extender cable and the adapter board. The extender might take a long time to arrive from China so I'm thinking to 'borrow' the WiFi antenna for BT for now.
I read that BT4 has a bad range with the old BT antenna, is it a good idea to buy a separate antenna like this?

Pardon our interruption...

 

[trifero]

Omg you're right. I did see 3 antenna cables but I thought the 3rd one was for BT as I thought it was going behind the motherboard. Didn't notice it was just conveniently sitting behind old WiFi card.
Cool, I'm awaiting the extender cable and the adapter board. The extender might take a long time to arrive from China so I'm thinking to 'borrow' the WiFi antenna for BT for now.
I read that BT4 has a bad range with the old BT antenna, is it a good idea to buy a separate antenna like this?

Pardon our interruption...

Yes, sure. My other mac pro has an external bluetooth antenna. Much beter signal. In fact, all the antennas are external.

 

[mateuszd]

Cool, I'll see how it works with the internal one and potentially upgrade to an external antenna if the results are too bad.
I need to handle the weird case of a broken fan now that I have removed the CPU cage as well. Today I woke up and found my intake fan at full speed - no idea what happened. Will hopefully kill 2 birds with one stone.

 

[mateuszd]

Another question, I can see BCM943602CDP on ebay for almost 4x cheaper that I paid for the BCM94360CD.
Is it the same connector? I saw @TECK complained about some issues with this card here earlier.

Hold on, do you need to use https://github.com/acidanthera/AirportBrcmFixup for the BCM94360CD? I thought it was a plug and play replacement.

 

[trifero]

Another question, I can see BCM943602CDP on ebay for almost 4x cheaper that I paid for the BCM94360CD.
Is it the same connector? I saw @TECK complained about some issues with this card here earlier.

Hold on, do you need to use https://github.com/acidanthera/AirportBrcmFixup for the BCM94360CD? I thought it was a plug and play replacement.

You don´t need it. It´s native supported. I suppose you also bought the adapter and the cable to suply power to the module. Something like this.

 

[mateuszd]

You don´t need it. It´s native supported. I suppose you also bought the adapter and the cable to suply power to the module. Something like this.

Yes I did, I hope the adapter comes tomorrow and hope also that the BCM943602CDP works cause I paid 4x less for it than I did for the BCM94360CD

 

[trifero]

Yes I did, I hope the adapter comes tomorrow and hope also that the BCM943602CDP works cause I paid 4x less for it than I did for the BCM94360CD

Odd. it´s more expensive.

 

[mateuszd]

Well, the item from the listing arrived but it is not the BCM943602CDP so I've messaged the seller about that.
I also received the adapter and put in the BCM94360CD in the Mac using one of the WiFi antennas as the BT one.
BT works fine, WiFi is speedy. Airdrop works however Handoff doesn't despite the option being ticked in the settings.
System reports indicates that handoff is supported.
I still haven't got OpenCore, I will install it later, but I wanted to make sure this card just works natively before tinkering with OC (which I will have to anyway as it's supposed to fix displayport on my Nvidia card)

 

[sfalatko]

Well, the item from the listing arrived but it is not the BCM943602CDP so I've messaged the seller about that.
I also received the adapter and put in the BCM94360CD in the Mac using one of the WiFi antennas as the BT one.
BT works fine, WiFi is speedy. Airdrop works however Handoff doesn't despite the option being ticked in the settings.
System reports indicates that handoff is supported.
I still haven't got OpenCore, I will install it later, but I wanted to make sure this card just works natively before tinkering with OC (which I will have to anyway as it's supposed to fix displayport on my Nvidia card)

Without OC you need to patch Mojave/Catalina to enable full continuity. See post #1558 above for instructions. For Big Sur you have to use OC to enable full continuity.

 

[mateuszd]

Without OC you need to patch Mojave/Catalina to enable full continuity. See post #1558 above for instructions. For Big Sur you have to use OC to enable full continuity.

What do I have to do with OC to get it to work? Spoof the board?

 

[sfalatko]

What do I have to do with OC to get it to work? Spoof the board?

Yes. To boot into Big Sur and allow continuity (and updates) spoof the board. See post #1 in the OC thread. Under Part II - Advanced Configuration find the Hybridization and related settings section. I assume this would work for Catalina as well if you don't want to patch. I only use OC with Catalina for updates and boot with _no_compat_check otherwise.