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PCIe

By far the most popular option for desktop users has been to buy an old Apple AirPort wireless card and place it into a PCIe riser card. The benefits of this are that as long as the hardware works natively on a real Mac, it will work without any kexts/framework modifications. With PCIe, you have a couple of options:

  • Apple AirPort Card adapted to a full sized PCIe adapter (recommended)
  • Apple AirPort Card adapted to M.2 B+M Key (same as what NVMe SSDs use)
  • Apple AirPort Card adapted to M.2 A+E Key (same as what Intel wireless cards use)
  • Full sized PCIe wireless card

Currently supported chipsets:

  • BCM943602CDP
  • BCM943602CD
  • BCM94360CD
  • BCM94331CD (may need to force the kext to load for Catalina)
  • BCM94360CS2
  • BCM943602CS
  • BCM94360CSAX
  • BCM94360CS
  • BCM94352Z
  • BCM94350ZAE

Supported (Full sized PCIe wireless card)

  • BCM94360CD (ABGN+AC):

    • Fenvi FV T919 (Bluetooth 4.0)
    • Fenvi AC1900 (No Bluetooth, EOL)
    • TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 (No Bluetooth, EOL)
    • TP-LINK Archer T8E (No Bluetooth)
    • RNX-AC1900PCE (No Bluetooth)
    • ASUS PCE-AC66 (No Bluetooth)
    • ASUS PCE-AC68 (No Bluetooth)

  • BCM94360CS2 (ABGN+AC):

    • Fenvi FV-HB1200 (Bluetooth 4.0)
    • AWD Wireless LAN Card (No Bluetooth)

  • BCM94352 (ABGN+AC):

    • TP-LINK Archer T6 (No Bluetooth)
    • Rosewill RNX-AC1300PCE (No Bluetooth)
    • ASUS PCE-AC56 (No Bluetooth)

All cards presented here besides the Apple AirPort and Fenvi cards require the following:

  • AirportBrcmFixup
  • BrcmPatchRAM
    • BrcmBluetoothInjector
      • Do not use with macOS 12, use BlueToolFixup instead
      • If you dual boot both macOS 11 or under and macOS 12, MinKernel and MaxKernel under Kernel -> Add in your config can be used to load one kext or the other in a specific OS
    • BrcmFirmwareData
    • BrcmPatchRAM fix:
      • BrcmPatchRAM3 for macOS 10.14+ (must be paired with BrcmBluetoothInjector unless on macOS 12)
      • BrcmPatchRAM2 for macOS 10.11-10.14
      • BrcmPatchRAM for macOS 10.10 and older
    • BlueToolFixup:
      • Used in place of BrcmBluetoothInjector on macOS 12
      • See above dual booting note

Older Models (unsupported in Mojave)

With these models, you'll need to reinject the old plugin your wireless card used in High Sierra to work in Mojave. There are a couple of different kexts to do this but generally, we recommend avoiding these cards unless absolutely necessary.

Note: Injecting the kext into macOS Catalina is even more unstable, highly encouraged to upgrade

  • Atheros 9380:
    • TP-Link TL-WDN4800
    • Rosewill N900
    • Atheros AR5BDT92
  • Atheros 9280:
    • Dell DW 1525
    • Gemtek WPEA-113N
  • Atheros AR9287:
    • Nexxt Solutions Saros 300 (APLDT300N1)
    • TP-LINK TL-WN881ND
  • Atheros AR9285:
    • AzureWave AW-NE106
    • Rosewill RNX-N150PCe v1
    • SMC SMCWPCIeS-N
    • TP-LINK TL-WN781ND v1
    • ZyXEL NWD3105