Wifi/BT and Virtualization questions

[coops924]

Hey everyone. I've been troubleshooting for a little while, and it appears this motherboard is a little goofy in terms of Wifi. I have tried a few different solutions but I wanted to ask if anyone has experience in the area. It's an MSI X670E MAG Tomahawk, and I believe it has an NVMe wifi/BT card installed. I assume this means I need the NVMeFix kext, but even with that, I have been unsuccessful in getting the wifi to work. I am connected via ethernet, so it's not a dealbreaker, but it would be nice to use universal control and such with my Macbook. Attached is a screenshot of my motherboard manual and current kext folder. I removed all wifi kexts for now.

On an unrelated note, has anyone got virtualization working on MacOS 15? I didn't even think about it until I tried to run a docker image yesterday and it failed.

 

[Shaneee]

It's AMD WiFi so that most likely means MediaTek which isn't supported in macOS. If you wanted WiFi you'd need to swap it for a supported broadcom card and run OCLP to get continuity features.

As for Virtualisation, it's sketchy on macOS. Older versions of VirtualBox is all that'll run really. Anything that uses Apple Hypervisor wont run on AMD.

 

[coops924]

It's AMD WiFi so that most likely means MediaTek which isn't supported in macOS. If you wanted WiFi you'd need to swap it for a supported broadcom card and run OCLP to get continuity features.

As for Virtualisation, it's sketchy on macOS. Older versions of VirtualBox is all that'll run really. Anything that uses Apple Hypervisor wont run on AMD.

Gotcha. Thanks for the quick reply. Suppose I'll make do or go get the cheap Mac Mini.

 

[Edhawk]

The WiFi card will be connected via an M.2 slot, which has nothing to do with NVMe and definitely doesn't require NVMeFix.kext. NVMeFix.kext is for Non-Volitile Memory Drives, which are not Apple native that require help with Power Management when used to run macOS.