seanmcgpa Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 My old asus bluetooth adapter no longer works with Mountain Lion. Can anyone suggest a working USB (maybe BT 4.0+) bluetooth adapter that works with Mountain Lion? Ty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Well it's not 4.0, but I just wired in one of these, it's a bit older model available on G5 and early MacPro and intel iMac's. The proprietary connector on it that would go into the Mac's motherboard is not used and is instead wired by soldering to the contact patches shown. The overall size of the board is very small, making the patches to solder on tiny and I needed a magnifying glass to help me see my work. Used onboard USB header for data and ground and used 3.3v from power supply's sata connectors instead of power from USB bus with some form of voltage regulator. It works native and apple bluetooth keyboard can even be used in the BIOS. Similar methods can be done with BT cards from newer macs which have friendlier pinouts with plugs on them along with newer BT spec revisions, but this was more fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniac10 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 This USB adapter works OOB but requires a dummy kext (BroadcomAppleBluetooth by AnV) to get sleep working properly. Can't really say about sleep cause I don't really use it. http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU421/ They've got a Bluetooth 4.0 adapter too (http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU521/) but I don't know if it's compatible with OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I use a D-link DBT-120 Wireless USB Bluetooth Adapter (USB 2.0) and OSX sees it as native and loads the correct drivers. Working just fine in ML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrintegra Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 IOGear GBU421 Confirmed working on my system running 10.7.4. Added idProduct 8680 idVendor 2652 to the following kext: /System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController.kext/Contents/Info.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_GW Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I have attached a System Report as well as a picture. The manufacturer is Broadcom, it's inexpensive and works 100% in SL, L and ML DP1 up to DP4 all updates. They come in different colours, choose the red one, the others colours don't work. No idea why not, no idea. Hope this helps. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verleihnix Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Hey, I bought one of this: BCM92046MD http://www.ebay.de/i...=item5ae771644c and this: 3.3V DC-DC converter: http://www.ebay.com/...ME:L:OC:DE:3160 or use 2 diodes 1N4041 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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