By far the most popular option for desktop users has been to buy an old Apple AirPort wireless card and place it into a PCIe riser card. The benefits of this are that as long as the hardware works natively on a real Mac, it will work without any kexts/framework modifications. With PCIe, you have a couple of options:

• Apple AirPort Card adapted to a full sized PCIe adapter (recommended)
• Apple AirPort Card adapted to M.2 B+M Key (same as what NVMe SSDs use)
• Apple AirPort Card adapted to M.2 A+E Key (same as what Intel wireless cards use)
• Full sized PCIe wireless card

Currently supported chipsets:

• BCM943602CDP
• BCM943602CD
• BCM94360CD
• BCM94331CD (may need to force the kext to load for Catalina)
• BCM94360CS2
• BCM943602CS
• BCM94360CSAX
• BCM94360CS
• BCM94352Z
• BCM94350ZAE

# Supported (Full sized PCIe wireless card)

• BCM94360CD (ABGN+AC):

  • Fenvi FV T919 (Bluetooth 4.0)
  • Fenvi AC1900 (No Bluetooth, EOL)
  • TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 (No Bluetooth, EOL)
  • TP-LINK Archer T8E (No Bluetooth)
  • RNX-AC1900PCE (No Bluetooth)
  • ASUS PCE-AC66 (No Bluetooth)
  • ASUS PCE-AC68 (No Bluetooth)

• BCM94360CS2 (ABGN+AC):

  • Fenvi FV-HB1200 (Bluetooth 4.0)
  • AWD Wireless LAN Card (No Bluetooth)

• BCM94352 (ABGN+AC):

  • TP-LINK Archer T6 (No Bluetooth)
  • Rosewill RNX-AC1300PCE (No Bluetooth)
  • ASUS PCE-AC56 (No Bluetooth)

All cards presented here besides the Apple AirPort and Fenvi cards require the following:

• AirportBrcmFixup

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• BrcmPatchRAM

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  • BrcmBluetoothInjector
    • Do not use with macOS 12, use BlueToolFixup instead
    • If you dual boot both macOS 11 or under and macOS 12, MinKernel and MaxKernel under Kernel -> Add in your config can be used to load one kext or the other in a specific OS
  • BrcmFirmwareData
  • BrcmPatchRAM fix:
    • BrcmPatchRAM3 for macOS 10.14+ (must be paired with BrcmBluetoothInjector unless on macOS 12)
    • BrcmPatchRAM2 for macOS 10.11-10.14
    • BrcmPatchRAM for macOS 10.10 and older
  • BlueToolFixup:
    • Used in place of BrcmBluetoothInjector on macOS 12
    • See above dual booting note

# Older Models (unsupported in Mojave)

With these models, you’ll need to reinject the old plugin your wireless card used in High Sierra to work in Mojave. There are a couple of different kexts to do this but generally, we recommend avoiding these cards unless absolutely necessary.

Note: Injecting the kext into macOS Catalina is even more unstable, highly encouraged to upgrade

• Atheros 9380:
  • TP-Link TL-WDN4800
  • Rosewill N900
  • Atheros AR5BDT92
• Atheros 9280:
  • Dell DW 1525
  • Gemtek WPEA-113N
• Atheros AR9287:
  • Nexxt Solutions Saros 300 (APLDT300N1)
  • TP-LINK TL-WN881ND
• Atheros AR9285:
  • AzureWave AW-NE106
  • Rosewill RNX-N150PCe v1
  • SMC SMCWPCIeS-N
  • TP-LINK TL-WN781ND v1
  • ZyXEL NWD3105