@fancyix - Now I get it! You wanted to upgrade your board to support a newer Bluetooth 4.1 (BCM943602CDP), I wish you had made that clear from the start.
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@fancyix - Now I get it! You wanted to upgrade your board to support a newer Bluetooth 4.1 standard (BCM943602CDP) for your Sony headset, I wish you had made that clear from the start.
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You should put back in your original AirPort board tomato sure you haven’t damaged anything.
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You should put back in your original AirPort board to make sure you haven’t damaged anything.
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I personally haven’t needed to replace the Airport on any of the 2013 Mac Pro’s I’ve worked on. Even still one often can’t just drop in other boards as your system needs a hardware driver.
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I personally haven’t needed to replace the Airport on any of the 2013 Mac Pro’s I’ve worked on. Even still one just can’t just drop in other boards as your system needs a hardware driver of some sort.
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I’m suspecting in this case there is a driver but the address space it uses also sits on the USB ports address space. It might be possible to hack the driver. As Apple never offered an updated AirPort board to support Bluetooth 4.1 for the 2013 Mac Pro the address allocation issue was never addressed.
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I’m suspecting in this case there is a driver but the address space it uses also sits on the USB ports address space. It might be possible to hack the driver. As Apple never offered an updated AirPort board to support Bluetooth 4.1 for the 2013 Mac Pro the address allocation issue was likely never addressed (conflicting).
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So the bottom line here is you would need to find someone with deep OS driver skills to mahout the USB ports allocation and if the USB UART driver can be altered so its not in conflict or alter the AirPort driver. Now the rub! Apple controls access to the device driver development to a select group of developers which have to prove they need it ignorer to get their driver signed so it won’t be discarded. Apple had also added additional kernel protections so they need to bless the driver as well.
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So the bottom line here is you would need to find someone with deep OS driver skills to alter the USB ports allocation and if the USB driver can be altered so its not in conflict or alter the AirPort driver.
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So clearly, this is not a workable direction! But there is a way to get what you want! You’ll need to get a USB BT adapter which offers the needed BT version and unlike the direct hardware driver you’ll use the USB developer kit Apple offers in their developer forum. That is if the BT adapter doesn’t come with a MacOS compatible driver.
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Now the rub! Apple controls access to the core device driver development to a select group of developers which have to prove they need it in order to get their driver signed so it won’t be discarded. Apple had also added additional kernel protections so they need to bless the driver as well. So clearly, this is not a workable direction!
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But there maybe a way to get what you want! You’ll need to get a USB BT adapter which offers the needed BT version and unlike the direct hardware driver you’ll use the USB developer kit Apple offers in their developer forum. That is if the BT adapter doesn’t come with a MacOS compatible driver.
You may want to contact Sony to see what they say.
@fancyix - Now I get it! You wanted to upgrade your board to support a newer Bluetooth 4.1 (BCM943602CDP), I wish you had made that clear from the start.
You should put back in your original AirPort board tomato sure you haven’t damaged anything.
I personally haven’t needed to replace the Airport on any of the 2013 Mac Pro’s I’ve worked on. Even still one often can’t just drop in other boards as your system needs a hardware driver.
I’m suspecting in this case there is a driver but the address space it uses also sits on the USB ports address space. It might be possible to hack the driver. As Apple never offered an updated AirPort board to support Bluetooth 4.1 for the 2013 Mac Pro the address allocation issue was never addressed.
So the bottom line here is you would need to find someone with deep OS driver skills to mahout the USB ports allocation and if the USB UART driver can be altered so its not in conflict or alter the AirPort driver. Now the rub! Apple controls access to the device driver development to a select group of developers which have to prove they need it ignorer to get their driver signed so it won’t be discarded. Apple had also added additional kernel protections so they need to bless the driver as well.
So clearly, this is not a workable direction! But there is a way to get what you want! You’ll need to get a USB BT adapter which offers the needed BT version and unlike the direct hardware driver you’ll use the USB developer kit Apple offers in their developer forum. That is if the BT adapter doesn’t come with a MacOS compatible driver.
You may want to contact Sony to see what they say.