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I wanted to put down my info and research into one post to get all the fun functionality like handoff and airdrop for those who are interested in having this, but have restricted ports. In case, I wanted a mini ITX build, so I had no open PCI-e slots (GPU took the only one) and the board I chose had only the Intel CNVi port for the built in Wifi/bluetooth. For my setup I chose to go this route and have only one NVME drive, the other being Sata because I wanted all the functionality and was OK to give up some drive speed for files. Parts: - Gigabyte z390 I Aurous Pro Wifi - M.2 M to M.2 A/E adapter Here - M.2 A/E to Apple 12+6 remote adapter Here - Apple BCM943602CS, in my case it was from a 2015 MP air Instruction: I guess there isn't much instruction here, really just a note that you need to add a connection from the first M.2 adapter to a USB header or else the bluetooth will not work. Other than that, this is just a confirmation that the above hardware will enable successful bluetooth and wifi without any additional work. No extra adjustments were done. Bluetooth connections, wifi, and air drop started working immediately, but not handoff. Other instructions say to log out of iCloud on everything and then re login and it will start working. In my case I just waited a day and it all started working. I would recommend waiting before you go thorough all that mess. The authentication using apple with also now works fine. *Extra* I chose a remote mount for the final adapter as I was worried about placement in the H1 case since I was having to use the back m.2 mount and have 3 cards back there for all the adapters. It isn't needed to fit, but in the end it worked great and I will show you why below Install of Anetnnas:
This worked great for me as I only want wifi and bluetooth for the connectivity features, I use LAN for my actual network connection. I would guess the CNVi wifi would still work fine with no antenna if I booted to windows again, but since my card came with 2 antennas, I stuck those on there anyways. I only connected to the center and one outside port so that I have one antenna for wifi (outside ones) and one for bluetooth(middle one). There you have it, maybe janky for some, but I like having everything fit together without buying extra parts just because. Here are some pics! [link] [comments] |
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