macOS 12 Monterey on Unsupported Macs Thread

[deeveedee]

If you need to experiment with a pre-release version of OCLP (at your own risk), I would recommend against building it yourself (why introduce potential variables from your own build environment?) and I would recommend retrieving the "official" nightly OCLP build from here. Follow the link after the text "For developers wishing to validate mainline changes, you may use these nightly links." I'm not posting the actual link, since Khronokernel asks us only to share the Source.md file link in forums.

Pay attention to the warning "These binaries should not be used ..."

and this "Users running new builds of the project without understanding what has changed are at higher of bricking their installation..."

 

[DinkThifferent]

same here, I had to upgrade GUI from the OCLP site and NOW Monterey Safariiiiiiiiii types better!
as I mentioned here just yesterdays!

Absolutely, my advice to everyone: every time you do an update through Software Update in System Settings (doesn't matter what kind of update) you must re-apply the post install root patch. Because with every update, Apple changes things under the hood. The patch makes sure your system keeps working nice and smooth without uninstalling important security or feature updates.

 

[LEXX_Gruzovik]

Did anybody make Parallels Desktop run under Opencore?

 

[Pablo Wannafly]

Hi, OCLP 0.6.1 with Monterey 12.6.2 on cMP 5,1 and everything is working fine apart some apps to transform the android phone's camera as a webcam:
- camo studio, recommended by OC team, crash on launch
- iriun opens, searches for the phone and crashes
Any solution or alternative?

Also Airmail 3.5.4 crashes on launch, but it's an old version and I'm almost sure there's no solution...

 

[meatwar]

Hey guys, recently switched from Catalina to Monterey with my cmp3.1 adding a new SDD, i own the original 2600XT and an Apple GT120 as spare, but main card used is a flashed Club3D HD7850 (Pitcairn DEV:6819) to EFI 7950, this card does alright till Catalina, but for Monterey i got always lost of signal display finishing the final stage of the installation in Monterey (No issues of display on regular boot or with boot picker) but i made with the GT120 and it runs "fine"... for a non-metal GCN.

Then i thought swapping it again... same issue, no display signal, besides being ok in my other 2 disks El Cap and Mav.
I read it about revert root patches in the OCLP guide but the option on the app is not available in older macOS or deleting the OC folder on the mounted EFI and rebuilding it again with OCLP, seems the auto-patcher is to blame...

Note: This issue also appears in Big Sure 11.7.4 or Ventura 13.2.1 setup with latest OCLP.

So back to the GT120 to run all macOS disks for now...
Any help and suggestions on this issue will be great appreciated, ty.

 

[TigerA]

Recently Safari keeps reloading and not showing anything (except error message) for the majority of the websites on my iMac13,2 running 12.6.3 with 0.6.1 OCLP. I've tried clearing the History and resetting PRAM without any improvement. This issue seems only started a few days ago when Apple decided to disable the Group Tabs sync function for any Mac & iPad & iPhone not running the latest OS. I am now using Chrome as the default browser instead.
P.S. There is no such issue when running Ventura (13.2.1) on this same iMac.
Just wondering if others have experienced the same issue?

 

[flusher]

Need advice given this patcher is very universal. I have 15” retina mid-2012 (the one with hd4000+gt650m) and it is currently on Catalina. I would like to give it away to relatives and preinstall everything so they can do basic safari/chrome/telegram/facetime/pages/sheets/docs. I am thinking about monterey. Would that be a good idea in terms of stability? Will it have wifi issues (need to replace adapter?) and will it need to do some rooting and running post system update patching each time? I mean i will not be able to do it as I am miles away and would like this machine to be self sufficient. (No guarantees from user as they could just press update when os prompts them to). Any advice on this specific machine is appreciated.

 

[TimmuJapan]

Need advice given this patcher is very universal. I have 15” retina mid-2012 (the one with hd4000+gt650m) and it is currently on Catalina. I would like to give it away to relatives and preinstall everything so they can do basic safari/chrome/telegram/facetime/pages/sheets/docs. I am thinking about monterey. Would that be a good idea in terms of stability? Will it have wifi issues (need to replace adapter?) and will it need to do some rooting and running post system update patching each time? I mean i will not be able to do it as I am miles away and would like this machine to be self sufficient. (No guarantees from user as they could just press update when os prompts them to). Any advice on this specific machine is appreciated.

I am using the machine you reference with OCLP and Monterey. It runs great with Monterey. Universal control works well too. I also love what Apple did with FaceTime for Monterey. Zero wifi or stability issues. Honestly it runs Monterey as well as my 2020 Intel MacBook Air.

For this machine and Monterey,
Every time after an update is run through system preferences (safari or security), The post install patches need to be run again. A user can put OCLP app in the dock, and the GUI is pretty basic to run the post install patch after each update, and then the machine prompts you to restart. easy.

However, if you use OCLP and Monterey with this machine, the user may occasionally receive a prompt from OCLP to download The latest version of OCLP or update the EFI. EFI updating is automatic through the app GUI, but your relatives would need to know how to download and install the latest OCLP from GitHub to get the latest patches. Monterey is currently in its first year of security updates, and there still have been one or two times where we needed to get the latest version of OCLP because something changed with the root patching. I think that it is less likely that after a year we will need to keep downloading new versions of OCLP to get updated root patches….(but it is still possible)

I believe that our MacBook Pro with the HD4000 and gt650 does not need root patching to run Big Sur. So, if you’re concerned about your relatives running the post install patches and being able to update OCLP (both extremely easy however), Then perhaps you could start them out with this machine and Big Sur…. After one year, you could help them upgrade to Monterey and explain post install patching…. I can’t predict the future, but I would guess that after one year, post install root patching for Monterey will become even more stable than it is now, and it may not be needed to download the latest version of OCLP after each update (I could be wrong, though…. I think that at the very end of Catalina’s life, something changed with the dosdude1 patcher)….. so even after a year, at the very end of the Monterey security update cycle, Apple could change something which requires updated for patches and for us to download a new version of OCLP.

No patching for this machine with Big Sur, so if your relatives are not so good with technology, maybe that’s where to start. Whichever OS you decide to go with, if you use OC LP, you will need to make sure that when your relatives do security updates that they do an update for the OS that they’re currently on and not accidentally upgrade the machine to Monterey or Ventura. (There will always be a little sentence that reads “another update is available”, and clicking on that link will allow them to stay on Big Sur or Monterey without accidentally upgrading the entire OS.

 

[flusher]

thanks a lot for such a comprehensive answer. i am thinking about going monterey as it does look better imo and also ive read people on big sur were having some wifi issues so don't want to get anything like that. my idea is to get anydesk (remote access) installed and basically help out that way with patching/updating whatever is needed from time to time and we'll see how it goes. hopefully system is not getting locked out suddenly after some incremental system update.

 

[quarkysg]

I'd just upgraded to macOS Monterey on my mid 2010 27" iMac (Core i5), with upgraded SSD and nVidia Kepler GPU card (old one died), OCLP 0.6.1.

Everything seems to work, except for WiFi. I can see WiFi networks, but just cannot join it. Had to use ethernet to get connected. Did the OCLP rebuilt to 0.6.1 (from 0.4.3) for the EFI partition and also did the post install root patch.

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

My iMac was upgraded from Mojave, where everything worked.

 

[TimmuJapan]

I'd just upgraded to macOS Monterey on my mid 2010 27" iMac (Core i5), with upgraded SSD and nVidia Kepler GPU card (old one died), OCLP 0.6.1.

Everything seems to work, except for WiFi. I can see WiFi networks, but just cannot join it. Had to use ethernet to get connected. Did the OCLP rebuilt to 0.6.1 (from 0.4.3) for the EFI partition and also did the post install root patch.

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

My iMac was upgraded from Mojave, where everything worked.

Is the GPU exactly the same model as before, the one that this iMac came with, but just a new a card? Or a different GPU card all together?

OCLP will build an EFI for the stock configuration of your machine. If the GPU is different than the stock configuration, you may need to adjust something in your config.plist (Id check what hackintoshers do in the dortania guide for your type of gpu), or may need another kext…..not entirely sure, though, sorry……

 

[quarkysg]

Is the GPU exactly the same model as before, the one that this iMac came with, but just a new a card? Or a different GPU card all together?

OCLP will build an EFI for the stock configuration of your machine. If the GPU is different than the stock configuration, you may need to adjust something in your config.plist (Id check what hackintoshers do in the dortania guide for your type of gpu), or may need another kext…..not entirely sure, though, sorry……

The GPU is upgraded from the stock AMD GPU to a nVidia Kepler GPU. I have no problem with the display or graphic. I have problem only with the WiFi network. I can see available WiFi networks. I just cannot connect to them.

 

[TimmuJapan]

The GPU is upgraded from the stock AMD GPU to a nVidia Kepler GPU. I have no problem with the display or graphic. I have problem only with the WiFi network. I can see available WiFi networks. I just cannot connect to them.

@quarkysg

did you bother checking the OCLP troubleshooting page?

General troubleshooting | OpenCore Legacy Patcher

There is a heading,
“Cannot connect Wi-Fi on Monterey with legacy cards”

did you check this and try this?

if you didn’t, and the answer to your problem is right on the OCLP website staring you in the face,
just say “oops”, we’ll all laugh, and that will be that.😘

 

[quarkysg]

I understand, but sometimes these things end up intertwined…..

do you know how to use proper tree , inject kexts and tweak your config.plist manually? This is a bit more advanced hackintosher stuff, but if you know how, I can tell you what I would do to try and trouble shoot this…… may or may not be good advice, but one thing for sure is that OCLP definitely generates EFIs that are machine and hardware specific, so if you changed the hardware, my guess would be that this is the reason why it is not working…..

because the gpu is different than the stock one, there might be a setting in the config.plist or missing kext or a kext that you don’t need that is keeping you from joining wifi.

I could be wrong, but these things sometimes definitely end up being intertwined. Does anyone know—Is there a way for @quarkysg to manually enter in what kind of gpu he is using when building the opencore, since it is different from the stock config? I don’t know if u can do that with OCLP. But it would seem to me that the EFI might need tweaking if the hardware is different from the stock configuration.

Thanks for your detailed reply.

Not sure why you are harping on the GPU. I had indicated that my iMac is working fine with Mojave (with the same nVidia GPU - GTX-765M). Maybe I wasn't clear in my original post, and for that I apologise. I have no problem with GPU. I only have issues with the WiFi.

I have another partition on my iMac's SSD installed with macOS High Sierra, and everything works, including GPU acceleration and WiFi, and it boots via OCP 0.6.1.

I'm comfortable with fiddling with macOS kexts and editing plists.

I would like to know if anyone who has iMac 11,3 running Monterey and OCLP 0.6.1 has WiFi working correctly?

 

[quarkysg]

@quarkysg

did you bother checking the OCLP troubleshooting page?

General troubleshooting | OpenCore Legacy Patcher

does This help?

Yes I did, and it didn't help.

 

[Perezx]

Interesting issue about Monterey on MBP9.1 (2012 non-retina 15").
I have two similar laptops, both BTO with 1Gb GT650M and 2.6 GHz CPU.
One of them has bluetooth module as on the larger screenshot (Broadcom 2070B0) - it works fine under Mojave but not visible (bluetooth section of system report is empty) under Monterey.
Another one has slightly different module (20702A3) and works well both under Mojave and Monterey. Tried swapping modules between machines - all the same thing, 2070B0 isnt supported by Monterey (OCLP 0.61)

 

[FixerMX]

Is OCLP Monterey stable, and does it perform reasonably well, on MacBookPro5,1?

 

[webg3]

The GPU is upgraded from the stock AMD GPU to a nVidia Kepler GPU. I have no problem with the display or graphic. I have problem only with the WiFi network. I can see available WiFi networks. I just cannot connect to them.

I updated MBP 2010 (nvidia GeForce 320m), I was on High Sierra, I updated to Ventura, so my WiFi is working perfectly.

 

[LEXX_Gruzovik]

Still no good results in trying install and launch both Parallels Desktop and VMware. Parallels crashes even during install...

 

[_LiveSorcerer_]

SO I've got the exact same card, it's working fine under Mojave & Big Sur but like you in Monterey, it won't switch on.

It shows up in system profile, as:

NULL
State: Off
Chipset: BCM_4350C2
Discoverable: Off
Firmware Version: v0 c0
Product ID: 0x0001
Supported services: 0x382039 < HFP AVRCP A2DP HID Braille AACP GATT Serial >
Transport: UART
Vendor ID: 0x004C (Apple)

Ok, found the "root patches". Still had no-compat check it here for Mojave purposes.

Took that out and it popped right up.

Can't get universal control or handoff to work though.

I have the same chipset for bluetooth, but still not working in MacOS Monterrey, any idea?

 

[Pablo Wannafly]

Hi, OCLP 0.6.1 with Monterey 12.6.2 on cMP 5,1 and everything is working fine apart some apps to transform the android phone's camera as a webcam:
- camo studio, recommended by OC team, crash on launch
- iriun opens, searches for the phone and crashes
Any solution or alternative?

Also Airmail 3.5.4 crashes on launch, but it's an old version and I'm almost sure there's no solution...

Quick update, for others who should have the same problem,
Iriun 2.7.4 for "older MacOS" works perfectly, 2.8.2 (tried before) and 2.8.3 crash.
Weird but good.

 

[deeveedee]

@Perezx There are SMBIOS-model-specific BlueTooth issues where Wi-Fi works, but BlueTooth does not. See this Acidanthera issue. I have documented my own findings here.

@webg3 My HackBookPro6,2 is perfectly running Big Sur and all but BlueTooth works in Monterey and Ventura. It is now patched to be virtually identical to a MBP6,2. I'm using OCLP 0.6.1 to apply the post-install patches for NVidia. According to this issue, BlueTooth issues are SMBIOS-model-specific and "spoofing" a different SMBIOS model may allow working BlueTooth. Is BlueTooth working for you in Monterey (or Ventura) on your MBP6,x?

 

[Earl Urley]

Hmm, that's weird, macOS Monterey 12.6.4 is showing up in the Production channel with a build date of today (Mar 1) and build number of 21G511 ?!

 

[deeveedee]

@Earl Urley Haven't seen this. You're sure you're not enrolled in the dev channel? If it happens again, post your screenshot.

 

[quarkysg]

I'd just upgraded to macOS Monterey on my mid 2010 27" iMac (Core i5), with upgraded SSD and nVidia Kepler GPU card (old one died), OCLP 0.6.1.

Everything seems to work, except for WiFi. I can see WiFi networks, but just cannot join it. Had to use ethernet to get connected. Did the OCLP rebuilt to 0.6.1 (from 0.4.3) for the EFI partition and also did the post install root patch.

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

My iMac was upgraded from Mojave, where everything worked.

I found out why WiFi was not working for me.

It turns out that Monterey running on OCLP 0.6.1 on my iMac 11,3 (27" mid 2010) do not like WPA2/WPA3 SAE PSK Mixed security AP setting. I managed to get my iMac connected to my WiFi network once I changed the settings to WPA2 PSK only.

It looks like the WiFi driver for OCLP 0.6.1 may need to be patched to support such a mixed environment. The iMac's Atheros card may not support WPA3 SAE, but it looks like the driver in OCLP 0.6.1 probably tries to use WPA3 instead and that is the likely cause. I'm unable to raise a bug report in OCLP's Github as it is restricted to collaborators only.

FWIW, booting my iMac into High Sierra via OCLP 0.6.1, WiFi works even for WPA2/WPA3 SAE Mixed AP security settings. This is likely because High Sierra uses built-in WiFi drivers that only supports WPA2.

Does anyone know if there's any .plist file I can change to force WPA2 only for WiFi in Monterey?