Broadcom BCM94360NG - no wifi on Windows 10 about gigabyte-z590i-vision-d-11900k

[DarioBogus]

Hi there. Same config as you, with 11900k.
Try unistalling current drivers for Wifi and Bluetooth module, and install this.

Let me know!

Apple Bluetooth Broadcom64.zip
BroadcomWirelessWin8x64.zip

[ramseysparrow]

Hi Dario, many thanks for your response - may I ask where you got those from?

[ramseysparrow]

Ok so I'm back to square one - as all the others I have tried, I'm getting bluetooth working fine (although unable to remove old paired devices) and wireless not working at all.

Bluetooth is showing up in Device Manager, wireless isn't.

[DarioBogus]

Hi Dario, many thanks for your response - may I ask where you got those from?
Original Drivers from Bootcamp with same wireless board. Worked as a charm for me.

Wifi Module don't show up as wireless card in device manager but you can see a generic module without drivers installed, or is completely missing?

If you can see it, can you provide the PCI Vendor (the longest one) under device property, details, hardware ids?

And yes, Windows is a real bad OS.

PS. Give this a try, manual install this driver only for wifi card.
BCM94360NG.zip

[ramseysparrow]

Thanks for yet another reply. I'm going to try the other driver you provided but to answer in the meantime, looking at Device Manager under Network Adapters, I can see 10 entries:

Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) #4
Intel Ethernet Controller (3) I225-V #12
then after that there are 8 WAN Miniport entries with various abbreviations in brackets which I'm guessing is some windows nonsense.

As far as I understand none of those are actual wifi modules, so it seems it doesn't even show up.

The actual card I purchased was from Amazon with this exact naming:
Runtodo for MacOS BCM94360NG M.2 Wifi Card Dual Band 1200Mbps 5Ghz 4.0 802.11Ac Than DW1560 BCM94352Z

EDIT: I'm not computer illiterate but there are levels to this game. It may be a silly question but how do you run the archive you provided? No executables as far as I can see.

[DarioBogus]

Hey, don't mention it. We're all a big community and we need each other.

I can't understand if the card you bought is a BCM94360NG or a BCM94352Z. If it's a BCM94352Z you'll need a different driver (except drivers from fenvi, they cover all broadcom modules on a single drivers distribution).

The archive contains directly the drivers, so you can't execute the file and wait, but need to select the wifi card in device manager, then unistall it and reinstall manually by clicking on property > drivers > install drivers > manual select > navigate in the extracted folder and select it. Windows will pick the drivers he need.
But if you can't see a regular wifi card this could be more hard than I expected.
Please let me see a screenshot of the device manager.

By the way, broadcom drivers for windows 10 are real crap. You can try the Windows 8 version. I'll leave fenvi version for you right below.
Wifi Driver for Windows 8

If it's not working, let's try to go deeper, installing a wifi driver directly for the chipset (that should be BCM4352) istead of the card model. I made a search for you and i found some lenovo drivers that should work.
Lenovo Drivers for BCM4352

And try to disable the PCI-E power management in the powerprofile:

1. go to power plan settings
2. go to the advanced settings
3. got to PCI Express
4. deactivate the Link State Power Management

[ramseysparrow]

Hey Dario.

You have a point there - the name of the product which contains both those product codes. I've emailed them asking for clarification.

I've now tried all the various drivers including your newest offerings - thank you. I'm shying away from deactivating PCI Express power management as that seems a little invasive in trying to make a basic network adapter to work.

I've revealed hidden devices in device manager, please see the screenshot, and the wifi device simply isn't there which would explain why none of the drivers seem to do anything - the greyed out ones are designated as Intel which I'm guessing are the 'remnants' of previous network card.

I'm understanding you've successfully installed macOS now and have the wifi and bluetooth work correctly both mac and windows-end? Would you mind sending me the link to the exact card you purchased? Thanks again for assisting - you're saying not to mention it but to the contrary, it is much appreciated and not taken for granted.

[ramseysparrow]

Taken it apart now again to look at the actual module. This is what it looks like.
I don't suppose wrong connection of antena pins on my part could be the culprit if the bluetooth shows up and works, right?

[ramseysparrow]

Finally, though I don't know if that's of relevance, it seems the pins on both have different layout. Side by side comparison, with Intel on the left and apparent Broadcom on the right.

[DarioBogus]

Hi there!

About last post, no worries for different pinout on the NGFF connector. Different cards needs different connection on motherboards.
By the way, i see that you have a BCM94360NG card, so do I.
It needs to work properly on windows, though!

I bought it some time ago on aliexpress, but you don't really need to buy it again, it's the same wireless chipset.

As i can see you have all the wifi module (don't really know why are reported as intel wifi... Did you install "shit"ndows before swapping the wifi module?) grayed out, it means they are deactivated.

We can try 2 ways:

1. activate then right click and unistall one by one all wifi modules marked as intel while they are not and give another try to the last fenvi drivers for BCM94360NG.
2. do a fresh windows install, restarting from scratch, and try the last fenvi drivers.

The relevant action of both ways is to unistall completely all entries about intel wifi in windows. They should not be there at all, simply because there's not an intel wifi module installed.

Yes, i know what you're thinking: i really hate Windows too.
Let me know.

[ramseysparrow]

I swear to god, if I wasn't still fond of computer games I wouldn't touch this abomination with a stick - it's mind blowing how far behind macOS Windows is - it's as if they were hiring a new chief designer and programmer every week for the last 20 years, scrambling everything into an unresolvable gordian knot without any structure or sense. Anyway...

Yes, shiny brand new computer with clean, stable, registered fresh install of Windows 10 64bit. Everything working fine, no issues beyond standard small windows absurdities we're all cosy with by now.

What I have done just this moment and what I may should have done before, was to reinstall the original intel network card to try and uninstall all the drivers and associations first, before installing Broadcom again. The original card is now physically back in and I'll try and clean things up in Windows tomorrow. Beyond what you already mentioned above, any other advice when I sit down to it?

Did you yourself uninstall intel drivers and devices before physically changing the adapter over?
I wanted to hit a restore point but it returns errors now, apparently due to iCloud app from microsoft store being installed - just typical microsoft isn't it.

[DarioBogus]

I understand completely. I totally prefer to "play" with hackintoshes instead using windows.

By the way...
I've swapped wireless card even before the first motherboard startup... my windows installation never saw the intel wifi 6 card.

Don't know if you installed windows on a different hard drive, but if so, best option for me is format and restart with a fresh and clean windows installation, directly with broadcom wireless on.

Let me know.

[ramseysparrow]

I may just have to follow your advice but then I know I will run into yet another problem which is getting my windows licence key deactivated here and activated again on the new installation, something that also doesn't seem to work cleanly and requires using terminal commands and other idiotic tomfuckery hacks from my last experience. Sigh.

I'll try and remove the intel bit completely first and if that doesn't dice, I'll install windows from scratch.

When you installed windows, did it auto-detect and installed all the drivers for broadcom or did you have to give it a helping hand?

[DarioBogus]

Hey there.

A clean install for this kind of problem is always the best option. Trust me.
This Drivers Wireless & BT Broadcom.zip are the drivers i have on my build for wifi and bluetooth. It should definitely works.
I made a couple of screenshots.
Obviously, you need to install drivers on your own, no .exe here. Follow this guide as reference.

Keep us updated.

[ramseysparrow]

I agree. I'm backing up files and will install from scratch today, I will report back on how that went shortly.

[ramseysparrow]

Hi Dario,

I've reinstalled windows from scratch now.
Neither ethernet, wifi nor bluetooth was recognised to start with, which makes sense as there's no internet and no drivers yet.

In device manager I had a series of devices listed under "Other devices". I had gone through every single one manually and tried pointing to the drivers you have provided. As before, one of them activated as Bluetooth instantly, but nothing else has reacted - no wifi and no indication of any generic wifi adapter on the list.

It seems I'm exactly where I was before reinstalling the OS - the network adapter does not seem to have any wifi modules. Can this be a bogus adapter?

[DarioBogus]

Hey. Hope you're well.
Very strange situation. I don't think you have a bogus card. I'm the bogus here! Ahah!
By the way...
Check and post for me any Hardware Ids, by right clicking on each one then Property > Details > Hardware Ids of every "Other Device" you have.

Let's find out what they are.

[ramseysparrow]

Ha, double bogus!

Fuck me this was supposed to be simple... after assembling and reassembling the motherboard 4 times and reinstalling os just to try and get wifi, I'm already dreading trying to install the actual macOS.

Ok, here comes, maybe I'll learn something in the process here:

[ramseysparrow]

I've never done any such ID search and so this is a new territory to me, but from a quick duckduckgo'ing, it seems the 'PCI device' may be our unknown network controller here, no?

[DarioBogus]

Sooo.

• First it's an Intel(R) SPI (flash) Controller
• Second it's an Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
• Third it's an Intel(R) SMBus Driver
• Fourth it's a Thunderbolt(TM) Controller
• Fifth it's an ACPI controller
• Sixth it's the Intel® Ethernet Controller I225-V

No Wifi device here.

As i can understand, if you plug back the intel wifi card everything works, so it's not a NGFF connector problem on the motherboard side.

If you got nothing in the "hidden devices", at this point, the wifi card could be faulty...
Could you send this card back for a new one?

[ramseysparrow]

Yeah, I was getting that feeling.
I've installed Intel ethernet driver just to connect to the net and see what windows will automatically update and it went and installed drivers for everything apart from 'universal serial bus controller' which I'm pretty sure is not our guy.

What a bummer. Yeah, no choice, I guess, but to ask for refund or replacement though I would probably not go with the same vendor again - it'll be another whole month of waiting for the thing to arrive from china and I'm slightly on the clock here.

Did you spot any difference between my unit and your own? How long did it take from aliexpress to Italy?

Thanks again, really appreciate your kind assistance Dario (Bogus or otherwise haha).

[ramseysparrow]

PS and yes - to answer your question going back to intel adapter I had wifi and bluetooth working seamlessly both the first time around and going back to it after reinstalling.

[DarioBogus]

Haha! Dario it's fine.

I found no difference, but could be anything on the broadcom board that make wifi chip to stop working.
From china to Italy was exactly 10 days from shipping to delivery, but it was bad covid times, so it was slighlty more slow than usual.

[ramseysparrow]

Good good! I've requested refund and return and I'm going to follow your link to order the exact same unit, just in case.

How's your hackintosh going by the way? All working correctly? Cpu, gpu, fans, temps, airdrop, continuity etc?
Was it a painful process to install? It'll be a first for me, dreading it slightly :)

[DarioBogus]

Hey! Hope you're doing good.

My hackintosh works like a charm. All working correctly (except for TB4 HotPlug, but we're working on it). About sensors, the only thing that iStat can't recognize is the GPU Die Temp, but nothing to worry about. It'all working great.
Fans are operated by BIOS, no macintosh recognition here, but it's an hackintiosh standard. So as the GPU fans that has their own gpu bios.

Installation it's not a pain at all, @SchmockLord have done a really great job. You may follow the dortania guide for the PlatformInfo module, because you need to change with your own serials and other stuff (it's an easy thing).

Let us know!

[ramseysparrow]

Hey there, thanks for checking up on me.

I've processed a refund on the problematic adapter and purchased a new one from the same aliexpress store you got yours from, so just waiting for delivery and hopefully no further hardware issues ahead.

Very glad to hear you have a flawless experience.
The reason I asked about fans specifically is I have read of people having issues with strange and sudden cpu spikes and resulting fan spinups. Glad to hear none of this is your experience.

I'll report back once the unit arrives and I test it.

[ramseysparrow]

Hello! Happy to report back that the new Broadcom adapter arrived and works fine in Windows now – the problem must have been a faulty first purchase.

So, I’m going to do a fresh Windows install now then finally start looking into the hackintosh end.

A question: any conflicts or issues with upgrading to windows 11 prior to attempting hackintosh install? Already tested W11 on its own and it works fine and feels like an definite improvement over windows 10.

[DarioBogus]

Hi there.
Glad to hear that!
About W11 i don't really know... If your windows installation it's on a separate hard drive should not interfere with hackintosh installation.

[ramseysparrow]

That makes sense.

I’ll do my homework first and go through the full open core instruction set first before asking any lame questions; I have other priorities now but will get to it soon enough.

But from what I gathered, the open core process is universal for everyone, then somewhere within that process I have to create a custom EFI that will hold information on my particular hardware in order to work correctly. That’s where shmucklord’s legwork comes partly handy because of a similar hardware profile, right?