Ailment Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Hey! I'm running a gigabyte z170n Gaming 5 and the included wireless is an Intel m.2 card. I checked the pinned threads but all of the devices that work natively that I could find with those model numbers were mini pcie. Are there any m.2 cards that work natively? I would like to avoid USB if possible and my video card is taking the only other expansion slot. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
luki1979 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 intel wifi will never work, apple only use broadcom chips recently Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2201957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfleep Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 The m.2 wifi/bt cards that use the broadcom 95432 chipset work well, although not OOB. I have a Dell DW1560 card which I use in one of my hacks. Like you, I originially purchase to use in a gigabyte board that had an onboard m.2 wifi slot. I ended up going with another board, but had already purchased the card directly from Dell, so I put it to use via a m.2 to PCIe adapter. The m.2 broadcom cards will work fine if you follow the same instructions as on the PCIe half mini thread. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2201987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ailment Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Thanks for the info, will see what I can find and report back. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2202575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooonet Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 The m.2 wifi/bt cards that use the broadcom 95432 chipset work well, although not OOB. I have a Dell DW1560 card which I use in one of my hacks. Like you, I originially purchase to use in a gigabyte board that had an onboard m.2 wifi slot. I ended up going with another board, but had already purchased the card directly from Dell, so I put it to use via a m.2 to PCIe adapter. The m.2 broadcom cards will work fine if you follow the same instructions as on the PCIe half mini thread. Hi golfleep, could you tell me what drivers did you use to make DW1560 work? I have that card too, and I was using RehabMan's BrcmPatchRAM2.kext and BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext. Both of the wifi and bluetooth can work, but they conflict each other heavily, when I was using the wifi to download something, the bluetooth mouse can barely work. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2203825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codinger Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Hi golfleep, could you tell me what drivers did you use to make DW1560 work? I have that card too, and I was using RehabMan's BrcmPatchRAM2.kext and BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext. Both of the wifi and bluetooth can work, but they conflict each other heavily, when I was using the wifi to download something, the bluetooth mouse can barely work. Thanks! Use DW1510 instead Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2203848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfleep Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Hi golfleep, could you tell me what drivers did you use to make DW1560 work? I have that card too, and I was using RehabMan's BrcmPatchRAM2.kext and BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext. Both of the wifi and bluetooth can work, but they conflict each other heavily, when I was using the wifi to download something, the bluetooth mouse can barely work. Thanks! I used the same kexts for bluetooth, as well as the Broadcom Fake PCIID, and the four kext patches in Clover. Works without any conflicts or problems under Clover and 10.10.5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2204130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
strm Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Thanks for the info, will see what I can find and report back. I'd be very interested to know what you've found. Any luck? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2232634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafamundez Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Hey! I have the same motherboard (Gigabyte Z170N Gaming 5) but I can't seem to get past the "Installing on Macintosh HD About 12 minutes remaining" screen. Did you follow any specific guides? Sorry I'm a bit of a hackintosh noob so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/310111-m2-native-wirelessbt-card-options/#findComment-2236964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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