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macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread

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houser said:
Hello @RogueB
It looks like you have a Broadcom wificard, I thought that was still broken?
Still working for you with Sonoma Beta 5 and OCLP 0.6.9n 8.1.23 ?
if so, can you comment on how you got that working please? I am planning to maybe try Sonoma on a rMbp 10,1 with the Broadcom BCM94360CSAX at some point. Also, if there is anything special with your 8.1.23 nightly that makes it work with broadcom, I'd like to know also. Don't see an archive of all nightlies. Is there one if I should get the 8.1.23?
Many thanks regardless
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Hello houser,

The Wifi card in Macbook Pro 5,2 is: BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n

The OCLP 0.6.9n, time stamped 8.1.23, was the latest Sonoma Branch variant available at the time of download.

I downloaded a full Sonoma Beta 5 installer package from MR. Macintosh website, then used "Createinstallmedia" command (in terminal) to create an actual installer on a USB thumb drive. The OTA installation of Beta5 did not work.

Once Sonoma was fully installed, I opened System Settings, selected Wi-Fi and then toggled the switch to "on".
I was surprised to see Wi-Fi system as active; I toggled the switch "on" and "off" once more, and Wi-Fi connected to the internet. There was no Wi-FI icon in the menu bar.

Hope this information may be of help.

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Preliminary successful install with a rMBP10.1. as in sig below
All I typically use seems to work. The basic apps, HomeKit, iCloud, the Media apps.
..and it looks like the bug with dragging files in to Pages and Numbers is fixed.
Still early days of course, but a good start means a lot and Sonoma looks very useful.
This development project is in my view now already legendary in terms of utility, usability, elegance and quality as well as the "keeping Macs from the landfill" factor to quote the developer blurb.
Still stunned we get to use our old Macs for one more cycle of current MacOs.
 
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houser said:
Preliminary successful install with a rMBP10.1. as in sig below
All I typically use seems to work. The basic apps, the iCloud, the media apps.
And it looks like the bug with dragging files in to Pages and Numbers is fixed.
Still early days of course, but a good start means a lot..
This development project is in my view now already legendary in terms of utility, usability, elegance and quality as well as the keeping Macs from the landfill to quote the dev blurb.
Still stunned we get to use our old Macs for one more cycle of current MacOs.
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Interesting, I tried the full installer (b5) using a USB stick with OCLP EFI for Sonoma (one stick to install from to another USB stick). Installation looked to have finished but when the system rebooted using the target stick, it hangs. Rebooting back to anything results in crash reporter. I'm wondering if you did anything different to get Sonoma working on your rMBP 10,1.
 
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Interesting, I tried the full installer (b5) using a USB stick with OCLP EFI for Sonoma (one stick to install from to another USB stick). Installation looked to have finished but when the system rebooted using the target stick, it hangs. Rebooting back to anything results in crash reporter. I'm wondering if you did anything different to get Sonoma working on your rMBP 10,1.
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I had a similar experience, while loading/installing thinking it was stuck during boot. Left it for 7ish minutes or so, then suddenly the sonoma login screen popped up.
 
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I'm wondering if you did anything different to get Sonoma working on your rMBP 10,1.
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I am just following the guidelines to a tee ;) The one thing easy to forget and maybe worth remembering even if it is in the docs is it might be a good idea to start by installing the new OCLP to the main onboard Mac EFI you are using, then restart and and start the install from OTA or USB stick, so that the EFI during the install is consistently loaded from the same new OCLP EFI during the install. Especially if you need to redo a step or two. FWIW. YMMV.
 
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iMac 2011 21"... upgrade from beta 3 to beta 5 with OTA... all ok, no problem... only bluetooth still works partially, it doesn't detect devices, but my magic mouse, even if not detected, works fine except scrolling
 

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hyperions said:
iMac 2011 21"... upgrade from beta 3 to beta 5 with OTA... all ok, no problem... only bluetooth still works partially, it doesn't detect devices, but my magic mouse, even if not detected, works fine except scrolling
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bluetooth issues yes, still very early sonoma development, well wait patiently.
 
For a little Saturday testing fun, I tried a clean install from USB of Sonoma beta 5 on a MacMini 7,1 (2014) using OCLP 0.6.8. It went OK but two issues: 1 The Post-install root patch shows there is an Intel Haswell graphics patch BUT "Cannot patch due to following reasons: Unsupported Host OS"; 2 Wi-Fi is not working. Will 0.6.9n solve these issues and where can it be obtained? Or is it still verboten for download by non-devs?
 

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nekton1 said:
For a little Saturday testing fun, I tried a clean install from USB of Sonoma beta 5 on a MacMini 7,1 (2014) using OCLP 0.6.8. It went OK but two issues: 1 The Post-install root patch shows there is an Intel Haswell graphics patch BUT "Cannot patch due to following reasons: Unsupported Host OS"; 2 Wi-Fi is not working. Will 0.6.9n solve these issues and where can it be obtained? Or is it still verboten for download by non-devs?
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Well, I thought I'd try to get round this by building OCLP 0.6.9n from source but same issue. And of course Unknown Display as a result.
 

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amaze1499 said:
Funny enough, I experience the same issue intermittently as soon I got VPN active and switched networks or tried to reconnect to the same network.
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b5 did not solve the problem, even worse, OCLP (Sonoma b5)does not allow me to post patch the system, invalid OS.
A bit later I got it installed, different OCLP Nightly.
Networking still does not work, DHCP works.
The system prevents internet traffic, network itself seems to work.
 
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nekton1 said:
For a little Saturday testing fun, I tried a clean install from USB of Sonoma beta 5 on a MacMini 7,1 (2014) using OCLP 0.6.8. It went OK but two issues: 1 The Post-install root patch shows there is an Intel Haswell graphics patch BUT "Cannot patch due to following reasons: Unsupported Host OS"; 2 Wi-Fi is not working. Will 0.6.9n solve these issues and where can it be obtained? Or is it still verboten for download by non-devs?
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I installed Sonoma beta 5 from scratch. I managed to fix opencore 0.6.8. After that, opencore installed Wi-Fi. After the reboot, opencore installs the video card driver.
I can send opencore. Send?
 
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Sven G said:
Updated my MBP11,3’s external Sonoma SSD to the revised developer beta 4: everything good, as before; only one glitch: in the Wi-Fi menu bar entry, the iPhone/iPad is not visible/available as a hotspot (only “ordinary” networks show up)…
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In other words: in Ventura, both hotspots and ordinary Wi-Fi routers show up correctly in the menu; while in Sonoma beta 5 with OCLP 0.6.9n, hotspots won’t show up, but will work anyway from within the Wi-Fi System Settings: a general behaviour, or something machine-specific for the MBP11,3…?
 
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Sven G said:
In other words: in Ventura, both hotspots and ordinary Wi-Fi routers show up correctly in the menu; while in Sonoma beta with OCLP 0.6.9n, hotspots won’t show up, but will work anyway from within the Wi-Fi System Settings: a general behaviour, or something machine-specific for the MBP11,3…?
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On my MBA7,2 2015, MM7,1 2014 und iMac14,1 2014 there is no difference in showing wifi connections in menu between Ventura and Sonoma b5.
 
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I am running the OCLP Sonoma-Development nightly build and trying to install over a patched version of Ventura. Seems to take ages - right now it is predicting 15hrs on a fast disk. Is this expected?

Tried to install it on a separate volume, but the installer had the same prediction. Reverting to installing over Ventura to avoid migration. Will just let it run.

--> later: took about 4 hours but all is well. The OCLP patcher runs twice. First it updates the WiFi drivers to be able to download the KernelKit, then reboot and do the root patch. All great so far on my cMPro 5,1 with flashed RX-580, updated BLE WiFi running on a PCie M2.
 
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