Peter Haßler

Hackintosh: BCM94360CD (Fenvi FV-A436CD) massive package loss after sleep

Posted on Dec 18, 2019

Just recently I replaced my old (nowadays unsupported) PCI-E wifi card with the Fenvi FV-A436CD (BCM94360CD chipset) (~50€ on AliExpress). BCM94360CD has native support in Mojave 10.14 and therefore: 📦 Airdrop and 🤝 Handoff

It worked great up until today …

  • Boot
  • Sleep
  • Wake
  • Sleep
  • Wake
  • massive package loss / random kernel panics (?? caused by com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily ??)

My troubleshooting process:

  • Terminal: ping router (let it run in the background)
  • Reproduced error and noted time for last wake
  • Ran Wireless Diagnosis Report tool -> caused kernel panic
  • Terminal/ Ping response time is way higher than usual
  • Console.app: Looked through system.log but found nothing useful
  • Console.app: Looked through /var/log/wifi.log: Found some error messages but wasn’t able to find anything useful
  • Google: BCM94360CD after sleep

Solution: Disable Wake On Network Access
no idea what’s the reason behind this – (tweet me if you know)