Working driver for Intel wireless cards

[acquarius.13]

On another forum I saw some kexts for intel wif-fi cards. Not for any card, just a few of them.

If you have an Intel, you may try one of those. Let's see if that project will go on in the proper way.

 

Cheers,

 

M

[Jake Lo]

Still work in progress.

https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/13201-intel-wifi-some-development-underway/

https://github.com/zxystd/itlwm/blob/master/.github/README_en.md

 

[WhiteDragon]

I will look into the Intel Wi-Fi kexts and see if anything works out. I will post if anything is successful.

[WhiteDragon]

The Matebook has an AC 8275 wireless card. I successfully got the Matebook to connect to WiFi using the attached kext.

 

You need to modify the kext's Info.plist as follows (shown using PlistBuddy commands):

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :IOKitPersonalities:AppleIntelWiFi:IFConfig:NWID SSID" Info.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :IOKitPersonalities:AppleIntelWiFi:IFConfig:WPAKEY PWD" Info.plist

 

Where SSID is the SSID of the network you want to connect to and PWD is the WPA password of the network.

 

Everything I have read about the kext warns to manually kextload it when you want to use it and to not put it in /S/L/E, /L/E, or Clover kexts/other because it can fail too easily and prevent the system from booting.

 

Here is a convenient set of commands for manually loading the kext:

sudo mv ./AppleIntelWiFi.kext /tmp
sudo chown -R root:wheel /tmp/AppleIntelWiFi.kext
sudo kextload /tmp/AppleIntelWiFi.kext

 

The kext causes a KP if you try to kextunload it (I tried), so if you want to change to another network, you need to reboot, edit the kext, and load it.

 

 

AppleIntelWiFi.kext.zip

[WhiteDragon]

The kext I provided in my last post works with my Latitude E7270, too. I'm planning on replacing the internal WiFi card with a DW1820A card, but in the meantime, it is nice not needing the dongle.