Uhmm ... it is either a premonition of future OCLP release, or, a typo. I leave it to your discretion to design which option has higher probability of being true. *S
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macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Hello houser,
The Wifi card in Macbook Pro 5,2 is: BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
The OCLP 0.6.9n, time stamped 8.1.23, was the latest Sonoma Branch variant available at the time of download.
I downloaded a full Sonoma Beta 5 installer package from MR. Macintosh website, then used "Createinstallmedia" command (in terminal) to create an actual installer on a USB thumb drive. The OTA installation of Beta5 did not work.
Once Sonoma was fully installed, I opened System Settings, selected Wi-Fi and then toggled the switch to "on".
I was surprised to see Wi-Fi system as active; I toggled the switch "on" and "off" once more, and Wi-Fi connected to the internet. There was no Wi-FI icon in the menu bar.
Hope this information may be of help.
Preliminary successful install with a rMBP10.1. as in sig below
All I typically use seems to work. The basic apps, HomeKit, iCloud, the Media apps.
..and it looks like the bug with dragging files in to Pages and Numbers is fixed.
Still early days of course, but a good start means a lot and Sonoma looks very useful.
This development project is in my view now already legendary in terms of utility, usability, elegance and quality as well as the "keeping Macs from the landfill" factor to quote the developer blurb.
Still stunned we get to use our old Macs for one more cycle of current MacOs.
All I typically use seems to work. The basic apps, HomeKit, iCloud, the Media apps.
..and it looks like the bug with dragging files in to Pages and Numbers is fixed.
Still early days of course, but a good start means a lot and Sonoma looks very useful.
This development project is in my view now already legendary in terms of utility, usability, elegance and quality as well as the "keeping Macs from the landfill" factor to quote the developer blurb.
Still stunned we get to use our old Macs for one more cycle of current MacOs.
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Have you tried dragging the Wi-Fi icon from the Control Center into your menu bar?
Interesting, I tried the full installer (b5) using a USB stick with OCLP EFI for Sonoma (one stick to install from to another USB stick). Installation looked to have finished but when the system rebooted using the target stick, it hangs. Rebooting back to anything results in crash reporter. I'm wondering if you did anything different to get Sonoma working on your rMBP 10,1.
No dragging but just klick on control-center/WLAN/Pulldownmenu "Show in menu bar"
I had a similar experience, while loading/installing thinking it was stuck during boot. Left it for 7ish minutes or so, then suddenly the sonoma login screen popped up.
I am just following the guidelines to a tee
The one thing easy to forget and maybe worth remembering even if it is in the docs is it might be a good idea to start by installing the new OCLP to the main onboard Mac EFI you are using, then restart and and start the install from OTA or USB stick, so that the EFI during the install is consistently loaded from the same new OCLP EFI during the install. Especially if you need to redo a step or two. FWIW. YMMV.
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iMac 2011 21"... upgrade from beta 3 to beta 5 with OTA... all ok, no problem... only bluetooth still works partially, it doesn't detect devices, but my magic mouse, even if not detected, works fine except scrolling
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bluetooth issues yes, still very early sonoma development, well wait patiently.
Clean install of beta 5 went without issue then patched correctly on mid 2014.
i believe that is correct. i have a 2017 imac and i dont think it has a t2 chip
For a little Saturday testing fun, I tried a clean install from USB of Sonoma beta 5 on a MacMini 7,1 (2014) using OCLP 0.6.8. It went OK but two issues: 1 The Post-install root patch shows there is an Intel Haswell graphics patch BUT "Cannot patch due to following reasons: Unsupported Host OS"; 2 Wi-Fi is not working. Will 0.6.9n solve these issues and where can it be obtained? Or is it still verboten for download by non-devs?
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Well, I thought I'd try to get round this by building OCLP 0.6.9n from source but same issue. And of course Unknown Display as a result.
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Very strange - post patches run fine on my MM7,1 with nighly sonoma branch.
I think @nekton1 is using a Version 0.6.9 of Main branch not Sonoma branch as others done here too. This is because no one should tell where to download the correct DEV Version of OCLP.
Exactly - it's a mixup of Main & Sonoma branch. I had the same issue 12 Days ago as you know.
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b5 did not solve the problem, even worse, OCLP (Sonoma b5)does not allow me to post patch the system, invalid OS.
A bit later I got it installed, different OCLP Nightly.
Networking still does not work, DHCP works.
The system prevents internet traffic, network itself seems to work.
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I installed Sonoma beta 5 from scratch. I managed to fix opencore 0.6.8. After that, opencore installed Wi-Fi. After the reboot, opencore installs the video card driver.
I can send opencore. Send?
It is fixed using the Sonoma dev branch. Thanks for pointing me to it.
In other words: in Ventura, both hotspots and ordinary Wi-Fi routers show up correctly in the menu; while in Sonoma beta 5 with OCLP 0.6.9n, hotspots won’t show up, but will work anyway from within the Wi-Fi System Settings: a general behaviour, or something machine-specific for the MBP11,3…?
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On my MBA7,2 2015, MM7,1 2014 und iMac14,1 2014 there is no difference in showing wifi connections in menu between Ventura and Sonoma b5.