All,I've started work on a project to port the current-generation Intel WiFi drivers from Linux to OS X. Right now it's very, very early in a process that looks to be a very, very long one. I have a kext that identifies compatible hardware and loads and digests the matching firmware, but it doesn't yet do important things like, say, connect to a network.Still, it's a start, and if anybody has a recent Intel WiFi card and wants to give it a spin and confirm whether it recognized the card successfully, there's a build with instructions here:The list of compatible hardware is here (it includes the Broadwell and Skylake NUC WiFi cards). Loading for device Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8260LOADED firmware file iwlwifi-8000C-16.ucodeParsed TLV firmware Release: 16.242414.0That's all the right output in both cases. Glad to see it! And thanks for testing.However, I don't have much of a status update on a functional driver. Recognizing the hardware and loading the firmware turned out to be the easy part.
Now I'm working on the actual wireless functionality, and there's a LOT of code in the Linux driver. I think maybe I underestimated the complexity.Anyway, I'm working on getting it all running in OS X. I don't really have an ETA.
Intel Wifi Link 5100
Maybe I'll try to give an update every week? Right now I'm working on eliminating the basic syntax differences and putting together a list of all the functions that the Linux driver calls that don't exist under OS X.