{"id":7861,"date":"2020-08-30T11:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T18:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:44:01","slug":"how-to-get-intel-wifi-bluetooth-modules-to-work-with-hackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-get-intel-wifi-bluetooth-modules-to-work-with-hackintosh.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Intel WiFi\/BlueTooth Modules To Work With Hackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Most of Windows Laptops are installed with Intel Wifi\/Bluetooth modules, the popular ones are AC7260 (2&#215;2) or 3160 (1&#215;1). For Hackintoshes, most of us have to replace with broadcom Wifi\/Bluetooth modules to have our hackintoshes WiFi and Bluetooth natively working. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chris1111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">Chris1111<\/button><\/a> had come up with a patch to work with these Intel modules. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OpenIntelWireless\/itlwm\/releases\/tag\/v1.2.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">The driver kexts<\/button><\/a> had been moved to a new place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Although the WiFi connections are not as fast as the Windows 10 but they&#8217;re efficient for normal use if we don&#8217;t need Airdrop function (since the Bluetooth is not handoff supported) and comfortable with open the laptops to replace the WiFi modules.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There are 3 kexts that need to be installed: itlwm.kext, IntelBluetoothInjector.kext, IntelBluetoothFirmware.kext and added to the kernel config.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"3 Intel Kexts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intel_kexts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intel_kexts-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"3 Intel Kexts\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"preview\" title=\"3 Intel Kexts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_kernel_add_intel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_kernel_add_intel-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"3 intel kernel add\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"intel AC7260 wifi speed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intel_speedtest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intel_speedtest-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"intel AC7260 wifi speed\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"preview\" title=\"intel AC7260 wifi speed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intel_speedtest1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intel_speedtest1-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"intel 3160 wifi speed\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"preview\" title=\"Intel AC7260 Bluetooth\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intelbluetooh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_intelbluetooh-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Intel AC7260 Bluetooth\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"preview\" title=\"Intel AC7260 Windows WiFi Speed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_windows10_3160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_windows10_3160-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Intel AC7260 Windows WiFi Speed\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"P9NHLcRHcgg\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of Windows Laptops are installed with Intel Wifi\/Bluetooth modules, the popular ones are AC7260 (2&#215;2) or 3160 (1&#215;1). For Hackintoshes, most of us have to replace with broadcom Wifi\/Bluetooth modules to have our hackintoshes WiFi and Bluetooth natively working. had come up with a patch to work with these Intel modules. had been moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-get-intel-wifi-bluetooth-modules-to-work-with-hackintosh.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1441,1477,30,79,1442,1359,1443],"class_list":["post-7861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hackintosh","tag-ac7260","tag-ac7265","tag-ao751h-hackintosh","tag-hackintosh","tag-intel-3160","tag-macos-catalina","tag-wifi-bluetooth-module"],"views":3277,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9049,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/9049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}