macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

[Peatwheat]

I had the good graces of coming into a tremendous deal on a couple of 5700XT’s from MVC Europe on eBay. Only to find out while they were being shipped release 10.15.5 of Catalina lost support for this card. It’s like a punch in the gut. I was able to downgrade to 10.15.4 and regain video. The video is so fluid! Seems like a waste to have to ultimately put them into a PC. This is posted on the MVC website and was the day before I received the cards.

Does anyone have knowledge of a fix in the works for this?

thank you in advance!
Pete

 

[Krammer002]

I had the good graces of coming into a tremendous deal on a couple of 5700XT’s from MVC Europe on eBay. Only to find out while they were being shipped release 10.15.5 of Catalina lost support for this card. It’s like a punch in the gut. I was able to downgrade to 10.15.4 and regain video. The video is so fluid! Seems like a waste to have to ultimately put them into a PC. This is posted on the MVC website and was the day before I received the cards.

Does anyone have knowledge of a fix in the works for this?

thank you in advance!
Pete

I am in the same position - received MVC Rx 5700 XT from MVC Europe a few days ago... I have not found a fix yet other than reverting to 10.15.4 for the time being. I hope that the future 10.15.x iterations beyond 10.15.5 fix the alleged reported issues along with the 5700 EFI issue...

Does anyone have a non EFI 5700 working with 10.15.5?

Cheers

Mark

 

[jhowarth]

I tried again today to no avail. I only managed to connect the BT cable to the J1 connector but no difference as BT doesn't work on this connector also. So I put back the BT cable to J3. Its the only cable easy to connect but impossible for the 3 wifi antennas, I agree with you on that. I think the female connector are not centered so its the reason it doesnt work. But contrary to your experience I am fortunate to report no sleep-wake problems yet..............

Have you verified that the osxwifi card matches the one they sell for the MacPro 3,1?

Mac Pro 2008 (3,1), 2007 (2,1), 2006 (1,1) – Apple Broadcom BCM94360CD – 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.0

My experience has been that the adapter cards can be problematic. I purchased 3 generic adapter cards that came with separate BCM94360CS2 wifi cards and could never get any of those to work. The problem that I had with those card combos was that cold boots would often cause failed boots in EFI with motherboard power LEDs lighting up. The cheapest thing to try would be move your BCM94360CD onto a version 3.0 adapter card.

Mini PCI-E Adapter for BCM94360CD/BCM94331CD Upgrade to Version 3.0

I went with the version 3.0 card because of cost and the fact that, when I emailed oxswifi a presales technical question, I never got a response. So I deduced that I would get zero tech support from them.
Note that the version 3.0 of that miniPCIe card has one of the two screw tabs on the top perforated. You'll want to break that one off in order to have proper access to the antenna jacks on the mounted BCM94360CD wifi card.

My guess is that the problem is how the usb through miniPCIe connector wiring is handled on these adapters. On PCs, they normally use a separate USB cable that plugs into a motherboard usb connector (which Macs don't have).

Also, check the BT section of the system report. It should have the following under ' Hardware, Features, and Settings:'...

Bluetooth Low Energy Supported: Yes
Handoff Supported: Yes
Instant Hot Spot Supported: Yes
Manufacturer: Broadcom
Transport: USB
Chipset: 20702B0
Firmware Version: v150 c9317
Bluetooth Power: On
Discoverable: Off
Connectable: Yes
Auto Seek Pointing: On
Remote wake: On
Vendor ID: 0x05AC
Product ID: 0x828D
Bluetooth Core Spec: 4.0 (0x6)
HCI Revision: 0x2465
LMP Version: 4.0 (0x6)
LMP Subversion: 0x4196
Device Type (Major): Computer
Device Type (Complete): Mac Desktop
Composite Class Of Device: 0x380104
Device Class (Major): 0x01

and under 'Incoming Serial Ports:'...

Bluetooth-Incoming-Port:
RFCOMM Channel: 3
Requires Authentication: No
Device Class (Minor): 0x01
Service Class: 0x1C0
Auto Seek Keyboard: On

 

[fdmr]

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[Blackriton]

Have you verified that the osxwifi card matches the one they sell for the MacPro 3,1?

Mac Pro 2008 (3,1), 2007 (2,1), 2006 (1,1) – Apple Broadcom BCM94360CD – 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.0

My experience has been that the adapter cards can be problematic. I purchased 3 generic adapter cards that came with separate BCM94360CS2 wifi cards and could never get any of those to work. The problem that I had with those card combos was that cold boots would often cause failed boots in EFI with motherboard power LEDs lighting up. The cheapest thing to try would be move your BCM94360CD onto a version 3.0 adapter card.

Mini PCI-E Adapter for BCM94360CD/BCM94331CD Upgrade to Version 3.0

I went with the version 3.0 card because of cost and the fact that, when I emailed oxswifi a presales technical question, I never got a response. So I deduced that I would get zero tech support from them.
Note that the version 3.0 of that miniPCIe card has one of the two screw tabs on the top perforated. You'll want to break that one off in order to have proper access to the antenna jacks on the mounted BCM94360CD wifi card.

My guess is that the problem is how the usb through miniPCIe connector wiring is handled on these adapters. On PCs, they normally use a separate USB cable that plugs into a motherboard usb connector (which Macs don't have).

Also, check the BT section of the system report. It should have the following under ' Hardware, Features, and Settings:'...

Bluetooth Low Energy Supported: Yes
Handoff Supported: Yes
Instant Hot Spot Supported: Yes
Manufacturer: Broadcom
Transport: USB
Chipset: 20702B0
Firmware Version: v150 c9317
Bluetooth Power: On
Discoverable: Off
Connectable: Yes
Auto Seek Pointing: On
Remote wake: On
Vendor ID: 0x05AC
Product ID: 0x828D
Bluetooth Core Spec: 4.0 (0x6)
HCI Revision: 0x2465
LMP Version: 4.0 (0x6)
LMP Subversion: 0x4196
Device Type (Major): Computer
Device Type (Complete): Mac Desktop
Composite Class Of Device: 0x380104
Device Class (Major): 0x01

and under 'Incoming Serial Ports:'...

Bluetooth-Incoming-Port:
RFCOMM Channel: 3
Requires Authentication: No
Device Class (Minor): 0x01
Service Class: 0x1C0
Auto Seek Keyboard: On

About the BT section : I got the same settings except the one for Discoverable: its ON on mine but I dont know the exact meaning of that....... I think the Mini PCI-E Adapter I got is a version 2.0 because I didnt saw any USB D+ or D- on it. But I have to recheck this before confirmation. I will try again to connect the antennas cables and I may follow your advice for the Mini PCI-E Adapter and order the 3.0 one if BT continue not working..........

 

[jhowarth]

About the BT section : I got the same settings except the one for Discoverable: its ON on mine but I dont know the exact meaning of that....... I think the Mini PCI-E Adapter I got is a version 2.0 because I didnt saw any USB D+ or D- on it. But I have to recheck this before confirmation. I will try again to connect the antennas cables and I may follow your advice for the Mini PCI-E Adapter and order the 3.0 one if BT continue not working..........

If you bought the card and adapter from osxwifi, I suspect it is their own custom miniPCIe adapter board rather than those sold generically on eBay. The USB D+/D- shouldn't effect you as the MacPro 2008 is unique in being able to pass usb through the miniPCIe slot. The later MacPros can't do that. As for the discoverable setting, it is on when you have BT sharing enabled. Again, I would consider also trying to do a clean install on a newly erased external drive to verify that your issues aren't just corrupted plist issues. That might crop up if you had both the original BT chipset still plugged in as well as the new card during a boot (as the OS will see both).

 

[Blackriton]

If you bought the card and adapter from osxwifi, I suspect it is their own custom miniPCIe adapter board rather than those sold generically on eBay. The USB D+/D- shouldn't effect you as the MacPro 2008 is unique in being able to pass usb through the miniPCIe slot. The later MacPros can't do that. As for the discoverable setting, it is on when you have BT sharing enabled. Again, I would consider also trying to do a clean install on a newly erased external drive to verify that your issues aren't just corrupted plist issues. That might crop up if you had both the original BT chipset still plugged in as well as the new card during a boot (as the OS will see both).

I never had the old BT Card and the new one at the same time when booting. I have already tried to clean all the BT plist involved to no effect till now........As the miniPCIe adapters are quite cheap, I will try to order one to replace the one provided by osxwifi and check if its making a difference for BT functioning.

 

[0403979]

This will be irrelevant to 99% of people on this thread, but I don't know where else to share it.

You can disable "desktop tinting" by replacing SkyLight's _WSWindowChameleonColorCanChange with a simple "return false":
mov rax,0x0 ret

Hopefully that helps someone! I just happened to find it while disassembling SkyLight for other reasons, and I remember a couple people being annoyed by the feature.

This is awesome. Works fine on my 2012 MacBook Pro. Wish it didn't need a system framework modification to disable this.

 

[vinaypundith]

Hi all,
I am running a Mac Pro 3,1 desktop with an EFI flashed NVidia GTX680 4GB video card and Mac OS Catalina using this patcher tool. It is working great, except for the graphics card HDMI Audio output not working. System Report shows it as "no driver installed" and the audio settings menu doesn't have an option for HDMI audio output. It works in Windows on the same Mac Pro though. Does anyone here have an idea how I can fix that?
If it won't be possible, I also have a Radeon HD 7950 GPU that I can flash and install in the Mac Pro. Would that help?

 

[Michael Filipan]

Hi. I'm using a MacBook Pro 15" mid 2009 with 2.53 GHz processor. I installed iTunes because the Music app is really slow for me. Is anyone else experiencing this or is just my Mac too slow. iTunes works great. Any tips are appreciated.

 

[olrik77]

If you bought the card and adapter from osxwifi, I suspect it is their own custom miniPCIe adapter board rather than those sold generically on eBay. The USB D+/D- shouldn't effect you as the MacPro 2008 is unique in being able to pass usb through the miniPCIe slot. The later MacPros can't do that. As for the discoverable setting, it is on when you have BT sharing enabled. Again, I would consider also trying to do a clean install on a newly erased external drive to verify that your issues aren't just corrupted plist issues. That might crop up if you had both the original BT chipset still plugged in as well as the new card during a boot (as the OS will see both).

Bonsoir,

I reinstalled the BT-Wifi combo card from OSXWIFI (the same as that from @Blackriton).

I could only connect two wifi cables and the BT cable (in J3) : very difficult, indeed, to connect properly the wifi cables.

The connectors do not face the motherboard as the OSXWIFI site shows.

The BT works well and the Wifi too even with only two cables out of three (RSSI : -58 dBm ; Noise : -90 dBm ; Speed : 585 Mbit/s

I am also connected to the internet using RJ45 ethernet 1.
Which takes over the other (Wifi or wired).

I still have the sleep-wake problems that I did not have with the old BT card: is there a solution for that?
(MP3,1 with Catalina 10.15.5 final and additional update)

Here is my feedback for the moment.

I still ordered an adapter in version 3 (that of OSXWIFI is in version 2.1) for 10€.

To be continued...

 

[jhowarth]

Hi all,
I am running a Mac Pro 3,1 desktop with an EFI flashed NVidia GTX680 4GB video card and Mac OS Catalina using this patcher tool. It is working great, except for the graphics card HDMI Audio output not working. System Report shows it as "no driver installed" and the audio settings menu doesn't have an option for HDMI audio output. It works in Windows on the same Mac Pro though. Does anyone here have an idea how I can fix that?
If it won't be possible, I also have a Radeon HD 7950 GPU that I can flash and install in the Mac Pro. Would that help?

It appears that HDMI audio isn't part of the default drivers. There are a few threads that discuss custom kext that have been crafted to provide the missing HDMI audio in the Sound system preference panel.

GUIDE: HDMI Audio

AppleHDA HDMI Audio
[automerge]1591478291[/automerge]

Bonsoir,

I reinstalled the BT-Wifi combo card from OSXWIFI (the same as that from @Blackriton).

I could only connect two wifi cables and the BT cable (in J3) : very difficult, indeed, to connect properly the wifi cables.

The connectors do not face the motherboard as the OSXWIFI site shows.

The BT works well and the Wifi too even with only two cables out of three (RSSI : -58 dBm ; Noise : -90 dBm ; Speed : 585 Mbit/s

I am also connected to the internet using RJ45 ethernet 1.
Which takes over the other (Wifi or wired).

I still have the sleep-wake problems that I did not have with the old BT card: is there a solution for that?
(MP3,1 with Catalina 10.15.5 final and additional update)

Here is my feedback for the moment.

I still ordered an adapter in version 3 (that of OSXWIFI is in version 2.1) for 10€.

To be continued...

Try purging out the unnecessary AAAMouSSE.kext and see if that has any impact on the sleep issues using these commands...

sudo mount -uw /
cd /Library/Extensions
sudo rm -rf AAAMouSSE.kext
cd /
sudo kextcache -i /

 

[olrik77]

Already done !

In addition, when I want to turn off my MP3,1, it will immediately restart and it is impossible to go to sleep (not me...the MP3,1)

Weird....

Serviteur,

 

[jhowarth]

Already done !

In addition, when I want to turn off my MP3,1, it will immediately restart and it is impossible to go to sleep (not me...the MP3,1)

Weird....

Serviteur,

If you have a spare external drive, try installing El Capitan to see if the same sleep issues exist there. If so, it certainly would appear to be some funkiness with the how the adaptor card is interacting with the system.

 

[netkas]

I've got my hackintosh with rad5500 working with 10.15.5, i was facing similar issue to flashed 5700 cards.

My solution is http://netkas.org/?p=1496

Those with flashed mvc navi cards better wait for news from mvc.

 

[Peatwheat]

I am in the same position - received MVC Rx 5700 XT from MVC Europe a few days ago... I have not found a fix yet other than reverting to 10.15.4 for the time being. I hope that the future 10.15.x iterations beyond 10.15.5 fix the alleged reported issues along with the 5700 EFI issue...

Does anyone have a non EFI 5700 working with 10.15.5?

Cheers

Mark

I haven't tried to switch it to the PC bios. This was suggested by MVC Europe as a work around. I think I'll wait on my 12-core until I get the last part for the Pixlas Mod. I fear I'll immediately hit the 210W limit and don't want to stress the logic board unnecessarily.

 

[MikkelF]

Hello there

Attempting to update an unsupported Mojave to an unsupported Catalina is causing me grief.

The installer fails in the first state (screendump and log attached).
I managed to break the Mojave install so I cant boot my previous installation (this message is written using windows bootcamp).

Is this due to a broken installer or some issue on the existing Mojave installation?
I would like to preserve the files in the existing installation so I havent tried formatting the drive.

Any suggestions?

Cheers, Mikkel

UPDATE: The logfile (.txt) I attached is removed when I complete the post...what to do?

 

[Peatwheat]

Hello there

Attempting to update an unsupported Mojave to an unsupported Catalina is causing me grief.

The installer fails in the first state (screendump and log attached).
I managed to break the Mojave install so I cant boot my previous installation (this message is written using windows bootcamp).

Is this due to a broken installer or some issue on the existing Mojave installation?
I would like to preserve the files in the existing installation so I havent tried formatting the drive.

Any suggestions?

Cheers, Mikkel

UPDATE: The logfile (.txt) I attached is removed when I complete the post...what to do?

Buy a solid state, try the install again. If all your installers are busted, internet recovery to install high Sierra. Create the installer from there. Install and migrate. No possible loss of data. Hopefully you have and ‘09 or better for internet recovery.

 

[MikkelF]

Buy a solid state, try the install again. If all your installers are busted, internet recovery to install high Sierra. Create the installer from there. Install and migrate. No possible loss of data. Hopefully you have and ‘09 or better for internet recovery.

The HD is solid state.
Would it be possible to somehow prepare the Catalina installer from windows so I don't have to install High Sierra just to make the installer?

 

[olrik77]

If you have a spare external drive, try installing El Capitan to see if the same sleep issues exist there. If so, it certainly would appear to be some funkiness with the how the adaptor card is interacting with the system.

Bonjour,

I check this in terminal :

Last login: Sun Jun 7 08:49:05 on console
pjn@Mac-Pro ~ % pmset -g assertions
2020-06-07 09:14:43 +0200
Assertion status system-wide:
BackgroundTask 0
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 1
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 0
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0
NetworkClientActive 0
Listed by owning process:
pid 122(hidd): [0x0000002b000980cc] 00:00:00 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle serviceID:100000607 name:AppleHIDKeyboardEve product:BLEUJOUR WIRELESS K eventType:3"
Timeout will fire in 600 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
Kernel Assertions: 0x10c=USB,BT-HID,MAGICWAKE
id=500 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.00700000 owner=Logitech BRIO
id=501 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.fd300000 owner=IOUSBHostDevice
id=505 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.5d100000 owner=Smart-UPS 1500 FW:653.12.I USB FW:4.2
id=506 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=AppleHSBluetoothDevice
id=507 level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=en0 owner=en0
id=508 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=BNBTrackpadDevice
id=509 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01/01/1970 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=IOBluetoothHIDDriver
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

Is it possible that the "Bleujour wireless keyboard " would be the issue ?
(no...after trying with an Apple wired KB and also reinstalling all the patches)

Serviteur,

 

[hvds]

This will be irrelevant to 99% of people on this thread, but I don't know where else to share it.

You can disable "desktop tinting" by replacing SkyLight's _WSWindowChameleonColorCanChange with a simple "return false":
mov rax,0x0 ret

Hopefully that helps someone! I just happened to find it while disassembling SkyLight for other reasons, and I remember a couple people being annoyed by the feature.

Thank you ASentientBot. It helped me - in exercising hopper disassembler and codesign again after a quite a while. Successfully modified your SkyLightOriginal in S/L/PrivateFrameworks on my 10.15.6b1 testing disk.

(Didn't recognise desktop tinting effects also with unmodified SkyLightOriginal though, even with an awfully red desktop, on the LCD display of my MBP5,2 (dark mode, transparency not reduced in system settings->display, 24bit colour depth. Eyes too old...?). I do recognise tinting on a MBP11,1 13“ Retina display, also 24bit.)

 

[DeLacy]

This is the first time I have been unable to successfully update. I made it to Catalina 1o.15.5, but I can't go any further. I have a mid-2010 iMac 21 inch with ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB. Any thoughts?

 

[TimothyR734]

If you want to update to 10.15.6 Beta 1 If you have a spare usb about 1 gb format it extended-journaled then unzip the USBOppenCoreAPFSloader and run and follow the instructions. Then open your terminal-unzip the swupatch and place it in the terminal-run it then check for the update in System Preferences wait close and reopen your terminal once the update is at least 10percent download-I usually wait until it nearly finished and place the catalinaswufix5amfi.command in the terminal run it. Once the update shows the black screen and progress bar a bit into it it will restart your Mac hold your option button select your USBOpenCoreAPFSloader in the select menu choose macOS install this will install the update then once it restarts boot into your Catalina patcher and apply the post install patches. If for some reason you have issues as the USBOpenCoreAPFS will add "amfi_get_out_of-my-way" into the boot-args run nvram-p to verify in the terminal restart your Mac and do a pram reset command-option-P and R this should move the amfi-get-out-of-my -way

 

[_Julian_]

Hi Guys,

could someone please give me some advice how i can Update from Catalina 10.15.5 (19F96) to 10.15.5 (10F101)? In other Words: How can i install the latest Catalina Supplemental Update? After using the CatalinaOTAswufix.app i can see the Supplemental Update under Settings but after clicking on Install my iMac 8,1 (Early 2008) is rebooting and showing the white Progress Bar in a Black Screen for a few Seconds and then reboots again. The Supplemental Update is still showing under Settings and therefore was not installed. What am i doing wrong please? Thanks in advance.

 

[TimothyR734]

From what I read the Catalina Patcher will download the 10.15.5 Supplemental update then recreate your patcher once you download a copy just like you would for the point releases