I am trying to plan out my wifi strategy for my hackintosh build. I like quality of my motherboard's Intel Wireless-AC 9560 wifi, that I'm using on windows. I have read that that intel wifi is generally not compatible for hackintosh, so it makes me believe I will have to buy a broadcom pci wifi adapter.
Purpose
This download intalls the Intel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software and WiFi driver for supported Intel Wireless® Adapters.
Software and drivers
Intel PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software (includes drivers):
- WiFi_20.120.1_PROSet32_Win10.exe (32-bit)
- WiFi_20.120.1_PROSet64_Win10.exe (64-bit)
Intel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software version = 20.120.1
- Driver version = 20.120.1.1 for 9560, 9260, 9462 and 9461.
- Driver version = 20.70.6.1 for 18265, 8265, 18260, and 8260.
- Driver version = 19.51.18.1 for 3168, 17265, 7265 (Rev. D), and 3165.
- Driver version = 18.33.15.1 for 7265 (Rev. C), 7260, and 3160.
Note:
When you update the software package, it might not update the wireless adapter driver if it includes the same driver as the previous release.
When you update the software package, it might not update the wireless adapter driver if it includes the same driver as the previous release.
Some software features are not installed by default. For more information visit:Intel® PROSet/Wireless Software.
Not sure what to download?
- Confirm you have the Windows® 10 operating system before installing.
- Check if your operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit.
- See Supported Operating Systems for Intel® Wireless Products for details.
- Ensure this download supports your wireless adapter.
To determine which wireless adapter is installed in your computer system:
- Automatically detectwith the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant.
- Manually identifyyour Intel® Wireless Adapter and driver version number.
Note: The following products support only 64-bit version of Windows® 10.
- Intel® Wireless-AC 9560
- Intel® Wireless-AC 9260
- Intel® Wireless-AC 9462
- Intel® Wireless-AC 9461
- Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
- Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260
- Intel® Tri-Band Wireless-AC 18260
- Intel® Tri-Band Wireless-AC 18265
How to install
- Download the file to a folder on your PC.
- Double-click on the file to launch installation.
Looking for drivers only
- Visit the IT Administrator Link for Intel PROset/Wireless software and drivers for IT Admins.
- Go to the 'download link'.
- Search for the appropriate Operating System.
- Download, unzip and install the correct driver.
What's new
See the release notes for supported hardware, what is new, bug fixes, and known issues.
About Intel® drivers
Contact your system manufacturer prior to installing software or drivers. They may provide software or drivers specifically configured for your system.
See list of manufacturers’ Support websites.
The goal of this project is to create an OS X driver for those Intel WiFi cards based on the MVM firmware (basically, the current and previous generations).
Supported Hardware
The following Intel WiFi cards/chips are supported:
- Intel® Wireless 3160
- Intel® Wireless 3165
- Intel® Wireless 4165
- Intel® Wireless 7260
- Intel® Wireless 7265
- Intel® Wireless 8260
- NUC on-board wireless for NUC 5i*RY*
- NUC on-board wireless for NUC 6i*SY*
Driver Status
This driver is still in the 'can it be done?' stage.
As of this writing the driver recognizes the appropriate hardware and loads a matching firmware file, but does not yet send the firmware to the hardware.
Now I'm in the process of trying to get all the Linux driver code to build on Mac OS X. This will be a very long process. Work is currently happening on the 'Porting' branch, but only a small subset of the code even compiles right now.
![Hackintosh Hackintosh](/uploads/1/2/5/8/125850606/726018428.jpg)
Long story short, this driver does not yet actually connect to wireless networks.
If you're interested in helping, it would be great to have more people try test builds just to ensure it accurately identifies all the hardware I don't have on hand to try.
Development Status
If you're interested in helping out at the code level, that would be super.
Right now all the action is on the 'Master' branch.
Loading/Installation
Typical third-party driver kexts should be installed to /Library/Extensions, but that's not recommended for this driver yet. Even in this initial work I've managed to craft a bug that crashed my machine when the driver loaded. If the driver was installed system-wide, that would happen on every boot, which seems rather unfortunate. So the manual loading process is recommended for now.
Manual Testing
- Download the latest AppleIntelWiFiMVM.kext.zip (or build from source)
- Unzip if needed
- From Terminal, go to where the kext is and run:
- Run Console.app and scroll to the bottom of the system log (usually displayed by default) or search it for AppleIntelWiFiMVM. You should see output such as:
- In your IORegistryExplorer you should now see the AppleIntelWiFiMVM device appear with the Intel Firmware info as well.
System-wide Installation
You've been warned!
But to install system-wide, use your favorite kext installer tool to install the kext to /Library/Extensions. It should load automatically, and generate the same output as above that you can view in Console.app
Credits
In building this driver, I'm relying on:
- Pure luck xD
- The iwlwifi Linux driver
- The Intel firmware releases for this hardware (probably largely due to the Linux drivers)
- Mieze's IntelMausiEthernet OS X driver for wired Ethernet adapters
- RehabMan and the-darkvoid's BrcmPatchRAM OS X driver for USB Bluetooth adapters
License
This driver (including any code I used in it from the projects above) is covered by the GPL v2
The Intel firmware is covered by the firmware license