MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro 3,1 4.0 Bluetooth not recognised.

[MidLifeApple]

Hi all,

upgraded my 3,1 to Apple Broadcom BCM94360CD 802.11ac mini PCI-E WiFi WLAN Bluetooth 4.0 Card.
WiFi is working fine but Bluetooth is showing as not connected. I’ve reseated the card a few times and tried all permutations of wiring, am I missing something?

Thanks,

James

 

[thisisnotmyname]

Someone will probably chime in soon but I seem to recall those older boxes needed a USB connection to the bluetooth module, do you have that?

edit to add: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-pro-2010-keep-updating.1748061/post-27927508

 

[MidLifeApple]

Ahhh no I don’t. I’ve found them on eBay but only from international buyers. How does it connect to usb + and -? Thanks for the reply btw.

Someone will probably chime in soon but I seem to recall those older boxes needed a USB connection to the bluetooth module, do you have that?

edit to add: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-pro-2010-keep-updating.1748061/post-27927508

 

[thisisnotmyname]

Ahhh no I don’t. I’ve found them on eBay but only from international buyers. How does it connect to usb + and -? Thanks for the reply btw.

I think at one point @tsialex posted an image of how that's done. I'd try searching his posts. I don't know personally, I don't keep hardware long so I don't end up doing that sort of thing, just knowledge gleaned from reading posts here.

 

[Ludacrisvp]

The 3,1 has USB in the mPCIe port as required by spec.
Apple chose not to follow that spec for 4,1/5,1 and those are the ones that need you to run extra cabling.

You might have a bad / fake card (or bad adapter), or you neglected to remove the original BT card and there is a conflict.

This is from my 3,1 ... the only thing connected are the 4 antenna wires.

0f:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:0111]

USB Bus:

  Host Controller Driver:    AppleUSBUHCIPCI
  PCI Device ID:    0x268b
  PCI Revision ID:    0x0009
  PCI Vendor ID:    0x8086

BRCM20702 Hub:

  Product ID:    0x4500
  Vendor ID:    0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.)
  Version:    1.00
  Speed:    Up to 12 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:    Apple Inc.
  Location ID:    0x7d100000 / 1
  Current Available (mA):    500
  Current Required (mA):    94
  Extra Operating Current (mA):    0
  Built-In:    Yes

Bluetooth USB Host Controller:

  Product ID:    0x828d
  Vendor ID:    0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
  Version:    1.50
  Manufacturer:    Apple Inc.
  Location ID:    0x7d130000

 

[MidLifeApple]

Ok thank you. I’m leaning to bad fake card as I have removed existing BT card and as per your picture mine is installed accordingly. Thank you.