This patch is not needed after installing and upgrade. But it does not harm your system, unlike the famous legacy video patch after installing a metal capable GPU.
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When you install Mojave fresh on your system that works with instant hotspot, what are you doing? What kexts are you installing? The only thing that I can think of that I did was swap the two middle antennas on the card way back when we were first installing the cards. I may have to crack mine open again and put them back to see if it suddenly just works or not.
Might try Reset Network Settings on your iPhone. This cured a problem for me earlier this week.
I'll try that next.. I just swapped the antennas back to where they should be and it didn't change anything. Rebooting the phone now and if that doesn't work, I'll try reset on network settings. Thanks for the suggestion.
that's also the last part what bugs me with my BCM94360CD not BCM943602CDP, and I think I will not invest. strange that its not patchable when it worked on Mojave. Hardware didn't change. just some OS adaption again 
so only Apple Watch Unlock and any password prompts are missing. not more. I think to invest again ~60€ and reselling the other card with a loss its not worth it.
so only Apple Watch Unlock and any password prompts are missing. not more. I think to invest again ~60€ and reselling the other card with a loss its not worth it.
AWatch System Unlock and everything seems to be working in Big Sur if that's worth anything to you. I guess I'll just use that for everything now. I have the one game I play working on Big Sur as well with Crossover so I really don't have any use for Mojave anymore.
I have not tested that board, but I think that others have got AWatch System Unlock to work in Mojave with it so I would guess it should work in Big Sur as well. Catalina is just goofy and many people couldn't get it to work there.
You will have to make the change to Big Sur that tells the OS that your system has Continuity support so don't forget to do that.
I built a custom version of dosdude's Catalina patcher to prevent the installation of the Legacy Wifi Patch for my 2010 iMac 11,3 (same thing I did to prevent the legacy gpu patch). Without the patch I've been able to get Apple Watch System Unlock to work in Catalina. So it isn't an issue with Catalina, it's the legacy wifi patch within dosdude's patcher. Remove that and it works. Good luck.
This is really good news!!
At least I can promise no such old Wi-Fi patch will be automatically applied if you are going to use the Big Sur micro patcher in future.
This @dosdude1 patcher would be so cool if it had an open interface to add new patches to the standard sets. The plist manipulation allows to at least to ignore some
Could you please you share your built? I would greatly appreciate if you could. I got stuck with the original legacy graphic patch and not very good at ketch modifying....
Thank you in advance.
This is basic plist modification which I have described in detail on the GPU thread writing about disabling the legacy video patch for 2009/2010. Sharing the complete installer is impossibly because it will not fit into any upload limit here.
Yeah, I won't be able to upload anything, but here is a link to Ausdauersportler's instructions from the graphics card upgrade forum. Please remember this will require that you reinstall Catalina.
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@dosdude1 Catalina Patcher 1.4.4: Install to disk with late 2009 and mid 2010 models The Catalina Patcher has a method to install a downloaded and patched image directly onto the running system for a while. Unfortunately you cannot get around the automatic patching using this method. This ends...
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Is there a way to revert the legacy wifi patch if it was applied, without re-installing the OSX?Yeah, I won't be able to upload anything, but here is a link to Ausdauersportler's instructions from the graphics card upgrade forum. Please remember this will require that you reinstall Catalina.
2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade
@dosdude1 Catalina Patcher 1.4.4: Install to disk with late 2009 and mid 2010 models The Catalina Patcher has a method to install a downloaded and patched image directly onto the running system for a while. Unfortunately you cannot get around the automatic patching using this method. This ends...
This is so easy: Just read my "Using the Catalina Loader" Guide, especially the section about installing extension using the terminal. Instead of adding an extensions your are going to delete one but doing the very same steps to unlock the root file system and later rebuilding the relinked kernel using the kextcache and kcditto commands. The only thing I do not know is the name of the "legacy wifi patch".same question for me. but at the end I will upgrade to Big Sur
But it is better to use the plist patched @dosdude1 patcher because otherwise the patch updater comes in every morning and wants to reinstall the missing extension.
Aw wow... I was wondering what was causing the AWatch System unlock to not work on Catalina.. !!! If I ever need to use it I'll know how to fix it. But.. I'm on Big Sur now and it all works so I don't think I'll be going backwards any time soon. Thanks for finally figuring it out!! It was driving me crazy!!
Hey will this also work with High Sierra? I noticed you wrote (Catalina Only
...hopefully it will...also last question is how did you upgrade to Catalina? did you do the patch install from IFIXIT? Thank You.. I have upgraded my wifi/bluetooth using the kit from OSXWIFI but handoff and continuity aren't working...Airdrop is so im wondering if this is all I need to do to get everything working correctly. thank You for any help!!
Hmm I don't really know how to uninstall a patch from the patcher, so I guess i'll wait until I migrate to Big Sur.
Try to boot into the @dosdude1 USB installer and re-install the patches (choosing post install patches, again). Deselect the legacy wifi patch there should do the trick.
The annoying "missing wifi patch" message will come up on every reboot, but who cares.
Hi Everyone,
I am currently making preparations for upgrading a low-usage 2011 Imac, 21.5 running High Sierra. (nothing on it)
The iMac currently has an upgraded harddrive --> 980 GB Sandisk SSD 2.5 along with 24 GB of Corsair Mac Ram.
New plans include:
Nvidia K1100M GPU (same power usage)
i7 2600s processor (same power usage)
and the Bcm94360cd Wifi/Bluetooth 4.0 upgrade.
I also have this on order: https://hideez.com/products/hideez-dongle
I have looked at the Thunderbolt 1 to USB3.0 upgrade but that is seemingly foolish, with the over $100 or more for the dongle that hangs on the back.
I already have all the parts on order and will attempt to complete them soon. My question is about the wire gauge size. I have read over this post 4x, and 20 AWG (gauge/size) wire size was mentioned once. Along with at the beginning of the post cutting up a USB cable. I have cut up a USB 3.0 and the 4 wires appear to be 22 gauge or smaller. Would this work? Plan to solder, splice, etc. soldering is not a problem.
Happy to contribute to the forum's progress if I can, but want to ask opinions?
I am currently making preparations for upgrading a low-usage 2011 Imac, 21.5 running High Sierra. (nothing on it)
The iMac currently has an upgraded harddrive --> 980 GB Sandisk SSD 2.5 along with 24 GB of Corsair Mac Ram.
New plans include:
Nvidia K1100M GPU (same power usage)
i7 2600s processor (same power usage)
and the Bcm94360cd Wifi/Bluetooth 4.0 upgrade.
I also have this on order: https://hideez.com/products/hideez-dongle
I have looked at the Thunderbolt 1 to USB3.0 upgrade but that is seemingly foolish, with the over $100 or more for the dongle that hangs on the back.
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I already have all the parts on order and will attempt to complete them soon. My question is about the wire gauge size. I have read over this post 4x, and 20 AWG (gauge/size) wire size was mentioned once. Along with at the beginning of the post cutting up a USB cable. I have cut up a USB 3.0 and the 4 wires appear to be 22 gauge or smaller. Would this work? Plan to solder, splice, etc. soldering is not a problem.
Happy to contribute to the forum's progress if I can, but want to ask opinions?
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I just picked up a late 2009 21.5” and am just starting to look into doing this.So I got the adapter for the BCM943602CDP module ready to go. I ordered an extra BT power cable (593-1035 B), hacked off the end below, and soldered to the adapter.
That Bluetooth cable you bought, does one end connect to the existing cable in the iMac and then you solder the correct wires on the other end to the new board for the new card?
Correct, but it connects to the existing female end on the Mac motherboard. Then the other end solder to the BT card. Make sure you double check before you “cut”, as the connectors on the cable are different for each end.