Is BCM94360NG viable? #197

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hepto commented Feb 24, 2020 •

Apologies, don’t want to treat this issue board like a forum, but before I purchase / be the guinea pig, wondered if anyone had used a BCM94360NG with HaC-Mini and had any success?

Did a search but could only find links to it, no reports of anyone actually using one.

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hepto commented Feb 24, 2020

By success, I mean having it natively supported without any changes being made to specifically support it.

chrisallen commented Feb 24, 2020

I myself have not tried it but would be very interested to hear how it goes.

crhendo commented Feb 24, 2020

My eBay purchase has arrived in Australia so I probably have a good chance that I will have it by the end of the week. I will report my findings as soon as I can. Hopefully somebody will beat me to it.

crhendo commented Feb 25, 2020

My parcel has been halted by a Customs exception (invalid paperwork from China). I won’t see it now until 19th March!

lmshsqlc commented Feb 25, 2020 •

Basically I don’t think this is an Apple Airport Card. And searching on Taobao (native AliExpress in China) there’s no result about this BCM94360NG, which is very weird. The picture is not photographed but basically a drawing. With all of these, and shipping from China, I would think there’s something not quite right XD.

But hope you’ll have a good result. Anyway I do suggest using an Apple Card, whether if you’re using a flex cable adapter or giving up a M.2 slot.

crhendo commented Feb 25, 2020

I already had an Apple Airport Card, adapter and associated cables on order. My colleagues at Broadcom insist there is no such part BUT also conceded it would be easy to build using existing components. Only time will tell.

lmshsqlc commented Feb 25, 2020

Interesting. I’m also looking forward to it. Very curious.

hepto commented Feb 25, 2020

Curiosity has got the better of me, so just ordered one! Ordered from Aliexpress from the Fenvi official store — even if a franken-card at least made by someone reputable. Shame it will take a few weeks to get to me.

spasma commented Feb 25, 2020

Ive ordered it as well a week ago. Hopefully it will be sent soon with the extended shipping times due to the cov19. I’ll keep you updated it I’m the first one who will get their hands on it 👍

hepto commented Feb 25, 2020

we11adam commented Feb 25, 2020 •

TL;DR: Yes! I can confirm that BCM94360NG works really well! NO PATCH NEEDED!

After reading this comment #191 (comment) and carefully inspecting what the listing says, I decided to give it a shot. Because the listing says the seller is based in the USA, I was hoping the card to arrive in at least two weeks. Oddly enough, the seller is actually based in Shenzhen and the card was shipped out by SF-Express the very next business day. Within 24h I have received this card.

Upon the first boot after installation, Wi-Fi was already up on the login screen. After logging in, the system just couldn’t discover my Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard, although my NVIDIA SHIELD TV in the next room was instantly discovered.

Of course, I wouldn’t want to give up that easily. I rebooted macOS, and now everything seems to work! I even tried several reboots and everything still works like a charm, including AirDrop & Continuity!

PS: I’m on macOS Catalina 10.15.3. I haven’t tested it on Windows yet (I have a dual-disk dual-boot setup) but I have no reason to think this won’t on Windows.

PS2: My magic keyboard & magic trackpad works during system boot (so you can make changes to the BIOS or select a different boot device) and in the OpenCore picker UI. It’s a BIG PLUS!

长话短说：BCM94360NG 在我的机器上工作得很好，不需要安装任何补丁或者驱动。

安装后的第一次启动，在登录界面上 Wi-Fi 已经自动边上了。登录之后，系统没有认出来我的 Magic Trackpad 和 Magic Keyboard，但是隔壁房间的 NVIDIA SHIELD TV 直接就认出来了。

我尝试重启了一下系统，重启完了之后键盘和触摸板都能认出来了，而且工作得很正常。我又尝试了几次重启，都没有问题，irDrop 和 Continuity 也是完美了！

另外系统版本是 10.5.3，还没有测试 Windows（双硬盘双启动），但是相信不会有问题。可以直接 用蓝牙键盘按 F2 进入 BIOS 或者在 OpenCore 的菜单里移动选择。

Broadcom BCM94360CS WiFi Adapter WiFi Driver and Bluetooth Driver Download for Windows 7/8/10

The Broadcom BCM94360CS implements the 3-stream 802.11ac specification to enable speeds up to 1.3 Gbps in access points, routers, DSL/cable gateways and PC products. The single-chip dual-band transceiver integrates all the major functional blocks needed to implement a complete 802.11ac wireless sub-system, including radio, baseband and MAC. This highly integrated solution provides the increased coverage and throughput performance required for high quality video and media applications in the home and enterprise.

Specifications

• Model: BCM94360CS
• Chipset: Broadcom BCM94360CS
• UP To: 1300Mbps
• Standards: IEEE 802.11n (draft),IEEE 802.11g,IEEE 802.11b,IEEE 802.11a,IEEE 802.11AC
• Operating System: Win xp/ Win7/8,8.1/ Linux / Mac OS 10.7,10.8,10.9,10.10
• Interface: PCI-E X1 X4 X8 X16
• Antenna: 3* 6dBi SMA External Antenna

To install the WiFi Adapter on Windows 7/8/10 for the first time, do the following:

1. Connect your WiFi Adapter to your computer’s PCi-e port.
2. From Windows Explorer, open ” Computer Management” .
3. In the ” Computer Management” left pane, select ” Device Manager” .
4. In the ” Device Manager” right pane, locate and expand ” Network Adapter” .
5. In ” Network Adapter” , right-click the name of the device you connected, and then select ” Update Driver Software” .
6. In the “Hardware Update” wizard, select Browse “my computer for driver software” and click Next.
7. Click ” Browse” and then locate the Driver folder. For example, the WLAN Driver is located in ” D:\Drivers\BCM94360CD\WLAN Driver for Windows 7_8_10\ ”
8. Click Next to install the driver.